Your Turn: Martin, Jr. in the crosshairs (Yahoo! Sports)
September 29, 2009
It’s that time of week again – the time for you to sound off on all things NASCAR.
If you’ve got an opinion you’d like to share – and the more diverse the opinion, the better chance you have of getting published – you can be a part of Your Turn by emailing us your rants right here.
We’ll kick things off with Mike Bartley from Springfield, Ill., Abe Lincoln’s hometown, with this rant about athletes coming out of retirement:
Mark Martin is the Brett Favre of NASCAR. Make up your damn mind if you wanna retire or not. Just like Brett I hope his career goes down the [toilet]. The last time we saw this much indecisiveness was when Ross Perot was running for Prez. Its crap like this that’s gonna make me quit watching NASCAR entirely.
Craig Van Kirk from Arkansas didn’t appreciate Dale Earnhardt’s criticism of David Reutimann:
Following an accident at New Hampshire, Dale Earnhardt Jr. said David Reutimann needs to “polish up his craft.” (Getty)
Who is Junior to talk about a lack of talent. Reutimann has more wins, more top 5s, more top 10s than junior with a race team that is not equal to Hendrick. Junior is the problem with his team. He’s done a fabulous job of cashing in on his name. Perhaps he should put more energy into being a top notch driver. But he doesn’t need to. He’s Mr. Popularity who makes a fortune for being mediocre
David from Denton, Texas, chimes in with this rant on Jeff Gordon’s crew chief and the 10 tracks in the Chase:
Who was the last Driver/Crew Chief Combo under the old scoring format to score more points (5,455) than Gordon/Letarte in 2007? If you can answer that then you know Gordon/Letarte are the perfect match since the modern era 1974. If you can’t answer that then you probably think that the Chase was a good idea.
Unlike football where every field is 100 yards long, tracks play to different drivers likes. If we would take the 10 tracks before the Chase and use those races as the Chase then we would have different Champions.
Jimmie Johnson is the Best Driver of the final 10 races of the season. He has proven that 3 times over. But he has only proven once that he is the best driver on all the tracks.
Will Rezac of Chandler, Ariz., wants to congratulate Kyle Busch:
When Kyle Busch wins the Nationwide series, I would love to be there to congratulate him on winning the trophy in the Pee Wee division. Sorry, the junior division. Okay, okay the developmental series. Okay so I really don’t know what the series is considered anymore.
Derek from parts unknown has this suggestion on how to give the regular-season points leader a homefield advantage:
Here’s my proposal for a bonus for the driver who leads the points at the end of the regular season: learn from other sports which give a home field advantage. Give the top driver from the regular season first pit choice for the remainder of the races, and then let the pole-sitter have second pit choice.
And finally, we’ll end things with this rant from Gary Crawford of Dallas:
What is the old saying, “there’s no cryin’ in baseball.” Well there should be no “Whining in NASCAR”, but then who would the announcers have to interview, not many I am afraid.
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