investigation by the CSI team; she is arrested for impersonating a race car driver.
Frank, one of our fellow race fans, brought up a good point since the Queen of Hype’s NA$CAR gear is out. It normally takes 4-6 months for this stuff to be put together. The photos, die-cast, t-shirt designs, jackets, etc. Which means this whole thing was very much a done deal long before anything was said about any official contract being signed. It was a very well orchestrated piece of PR work made to hype everything to high heavens. But from what I’ve been finding on various web sites and in replies to articles, folks are already burned out on the QoH and everything about her that the NA$CAR media has said and done.
Something else to be thinking about also. Every race the QoH is in, it’s going to be “All Damnica All The Time”. And since IBPN will be carrying most of the races she’ll be in, you have to wonder just who will be drooling and fawning over her the most. Will it be Crusty, Drab Brad, DJ, Petree dish, Bestwick, or Dr Punch in the pits? And if you think that’s bad, just wait until Speed/Fox has coverage of any race or even qualifying she’s in or around. You’ll have her replacing June Bug as Jabber Jaws favorite. The rest of the Fox Booth Bozos will be tripping over themselves trying to think of adjectives to make her seem better than what she is. They’ll try to make her seem like the second coming of Iron Head. But don’t fall for the hype. Let her success or failures speak for her capabilities.
Of course, you’ll have to wonder just how IBPN is going to handle the QoH stomping away in a petulant frenzy from the Infield Care Center after a wreck when she goes to hide away in her motor coach like she does in the IRL. Will they have a cameraman outside checking back in every five minutes with updates? Will they be playing the sound track of her screaming inside the motor coach? Will they show her motor coach pulling out of the coach lot? What excuses will the Commentating Clowns be making for her behavior? These are all things we’ll just have to wait for to see in a couple of weeks.
The Queen of Hype as Marilyn Monroe? That’s what GropeDaddy.c0m is going to be showing during the Super Bowl. I hope Kleenex gets credit for stuffing the brassiere to match Marilyn’s natural endowment.
Anyone notice how the talk about fuel injection for next season has disappeared from sight? And nobody has said thing one about the review of the franchising which is supposed to take place this year.
After reading about John Darby training a replacement and heading off to run the super secret R&D center, I had to wonder just who all would make a good replacement for him. I guess it depends on if you’re looking for a “Yes Man” or not. And I can’t come up with a single name for a replacement. Considering he replaced Gary Nelson, one of the best cheats of his day, you have to wonder which recently retired crew chief would fit the bill and none come to mind. Rita mentioned Ray Evernham as a possibility. From what I’ve heard about Ray, he’s wanting back in as a team owner or a crew chief to make money so he can subsidize his wife‘s racing career. Fatback is too honest a guy to take the job. Chad is still a working crew chief so he can’t take the job. I can think of a couple of Booth Buffoons who are “Yes Men” who would fit the bill. Jabber Jaws, his brother, and Jabber Jaw’s parrot would all do nicely. So would the Hollywood goat roper. So I guess we’re all in the dark until an announcement is actually made.
TWIN going away is no big surprise. After they dumped Bestwick, it had a slow, lingering death. Dumping Benson and Schrader just made it even worse. Keeping the Human Shill caused a lot of folks to tune out. I’m surprised the show lasted as long as it did under the last format. Despain was like a fish out of water when he hosted it. Steve Byrnes never really looked comfortable with the format but soldiered on. Now Jimmy Spencer is supposed to be getting his own show and Speed is putting together a show on tailgating and camping. Well Speed, you know who the foremost authority on tailgating and camping is. Race Mama! I seriously doubt they’ll ever show up at the Laidback camp site. Prove me wrong Speed.
From reading the various things about Faux King Brian’s Magical Media Tour this year, it seems to have gotten a lot like the sport. Very sterile and PC. Instead of going to the shops and being able to talk with the worker bees, it’s all handled with slick, PR precision at hotels. Comments are all pretty well scripted, even the stuff that’s supposed to be off the cuff. Real questions aren’t being asked (nothing new about that), extremely limited TV network access, and it’s all too well orchestrated to really feel right. Of course, you know my invitation got lost in the mail... yet again. LOL
And while Jack Roush seems to have gone off the deep end once again, he did make a valid point or two about the TV commentators and their conflicts of interests, which have been a sore spot for a lot of race fans.
Roush said "The complaints have come from reporters and the media that has maybe a vested interest -- if you look at [announcers and former driving champions] Darrell Waltrip and Rusty Wallace and all the ex-drivers and ex-crew chiefs that are out there. It's not unreasonable to say they've got some ax to grind over something that frustrated them in their careers when they were on the firing line. We need to reel that back in; that needs to be something that's not carried out front to the fans and to the public. ( Roush wants more out of TV coverage, less criticism)
Obviously Jack, you’ve got a good point here about these two commentators. However, we fans have complained on a number of web sites, various fan forums, and in comments to a number of articles regarding our own observations about what we see during the races. When I see a red flag thrown because of rain where I’m sitting and there’s not a drop in the sky, I think I have a very valid right to complain that something isn’t right about the race. When there’s supposed to be debris on the track and not a single track vehicle moves to pick it up, I have a right to complain about Ms Terry DeBris cautions. If you really want to get to the crux of the problem, take it up with Faux King Brian and his management of the racing, media, and the broadcasts. He’s the one who’s made the racing boring on TV by mandating the coverage and implementing the Camry of Today. When we actually heard the commentators complaining at the fall Talladega race, it was a breath of fresh air. They finally were telling the truth instead of feeding us bull manure like they normally do. So take some Valium Jack and relax a bit. You might find it to be better than the Kool Aid.
Here’s an interesting quote from Texas Motor
Speedway:
The return to the traditional look provides fans
with the ability to differentiate between the four
manufacturers more easily and hopefully
enhance the passing ability of the cars and
overall race action.
Now, let me get this straight. The cars all look
the same whether they’re using the wing or the
spoiler and they're saying that the spoiler will let
the fans tell the difference between the makes of
the cars. You have to wonder if maybe the drug
testing policy needs to be extended to the track
PR people.
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