Summary:
Anyone who follows NASCAR knows about the sad state of racing affairs at Lowes Motor Speedway on Saturday night. So, I won’t recap anything but the raw facts.
| Yellow flags | 14 |
| Red flags | 1 |
| % of laps run under caution | about 25% |
| Longest green flag run | 32 laps |
My Take:
For about 9 months, I used to drive 2 roundtrips from Tyler to Fort Worth every weekend. 500 miles total. My car was outfitted with really bad $20 used tires. I blew one quite regularly. Sometimes I would start the trip already seeing some wire poking through.
What’s my point?
It’s the pits to worry the whole trip about which one of my tires is gonna blow.
I usually ran about 75mph. Not 185mph. I wasn’t driving in a pack of cars with equally pitiful tires.
That wasn’t racing we watched. That was accidents waiting to happen. I sure am glad I recorded the race on my DVR and watched it the next day. My ‘seat time’ was much shorter than the 4 1/2+ hours that most had to endure.”