Night races

Night races

I hate the night races cause I can't see them. The only good thing is I
record them and don't have to set through the dumb commercials!! Race is a
lot shorter that way too. I have to be careful the next day that I don't
see the results on the news, etc.!

Re: Night races

On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:11:04 CST, "Pete" <psteak8913@atlanticbb,net > wrote in
<x-6dnXbnAvMedKvVnZ2dnUVZ_qbinZ2d@posted.echolabs>:

>I hate the night races cause I can't see them. The only good thing is I
>record them and don't have to set through the dumb commercials!! Race is a
>lot shorter that way too. I have to be careful the next day that I don't
>see the results on the news, etc.!

I get a kick of how the cars look under the lights.

What I hate is that there's nothing to watch on
Sunday afternoon. :o(

Marty
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Re: Night races

"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" <moleski@canisius.edu> wrote in
news:65GdnfzfI8iIs6rVnZ2dnUVZ_orinZ2d@supernews,com :

> On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:11:04 CST, "Pete" <psteak8913@atlanticbb,net >
> wrote in <x-6dnXbnAvMedKvVnZ2dnUVZ_qbinZ2d@posted.echolabs>:
>
>>I hate the night races cause I can't see them. The only good thing
>>is I record them and don't have to set through the dumb commercials!!
>>Race is a lot shorter that way too. I have to be careful the next day
>>that I don't see the results on the news, etc.!
>
> I get a kick of how the cars look under the lights.

Once or twice a year would be plenty of that, tho.

> What I hate is that there's nothing to watch on
> Sunday afternoon. :o(

Yeah, that's one of my objections. I basically have three
reasons I dislike night races:

1) they tend to end too late. Even without any disruption to
the planned sequence, they often end near midnight. A long
cleanup after an accident can easily put it into the AM hours.
Whereas I pretty much loose interest after 11PM, and want to
go to bed.

2) I have other things I'd like to do on a Sat evening.
There are more desirable things than sitting in front of a
TV to do on Fri & Sat nights.

3) I have free time in the middle of my "day of rest" when
I'd like to chill out in front of the TV. (*)

Add to that the disastrous effect they've had on the nations
short tracks, and there's little reason to cheer for the
night races.

John

(* fortunately there's baseball. How 'bout them Marlins!)

Re: Night races

I much prefer night races.

Re: Night races

John McCoy wrote:
> "Martin X. Moleski, SJ" <moleski@canisius.edu> wrote in
> news:65GdnfzfI8iIs6rVnZ2dnUVZ orinZ2d@supernews,com :
>
>> On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:11:04 CST, "Pete" <psteak8913@atlanticbb,net >
>> wrote in <x-6dnXbnAvMedKvVnZ2dnUVZ qbinZ2d@posted.echolabs>:
>>
>>> I hate the night races cause I can't see them. The only good thing
>>> is I record them and don't have to set through the dumb commercials!!
>>> Race is a lot shorter that way too. I have to be careful the next day
>>> that I don't see the results on the news, etc.!
>> I get a kick of how the cars look under the lights.
>
> Once or twice a year would be plenty of that, tho.
>
>> What I hate is that there's nothing to watch on
>> Sunday afternoon. :o(
>

Yeah, I hate that, too. It's okay during football season, since I can
watch that, but not in the spring and summer....

> Yeah, that's one of my objections. I basically have three
> reasons I dislike night races:
>
> 1) they tend to end too late.

I would guess that's more of an East Coast problem than West Coast?
They don't seem to end all that late here (unless there's an accident or
something...) My complaint is that they START TOO EARLY -- 5 o'clock is
still "late afternoon" here for a Saturday. We might still be mowing
the yard, or relaxing in the pool after a hard day mowing the yard...

>
> 2) I have other things I'd like to do on a Sat evening.
> There are more desirable things than sitting in front of a
> TV to do on Fri & Sat nights.

I'd almost rather it be on Friday than Saturday. We usually stay home
on Friday. We almost always go out to eat Saturday night, so I either
have to give up my dinner out, or miss the 1st half of the race. Plus,
there's always other stuff to do on Saturdays....
>
> 3) I have free time in the middle of my "day of rest" when
> I'd like to chill out in front of the TV. (*)

I could care less about watching baseball on tv. I'd much rather see it
in person. I feel the same about *most* sports. But I do like watching
NASCAR on tv. It's nice to turn on the tube while I sit in my craft
room or bring the radio out with me while I weed the garden
>
> Add to that the disastrous effect they've had on the nations
> short tracks, and there's little reason to cheer for the
> night races.

But I must say I do *love* the look of the cars at night. I especially
like the 600 because so many cars always used to have the special paint
schemes. (Doesn't seem like they do that as much these days). I also
like the 600 because I get to share my love of NASCAR with 30-50 of my
closest friends via an annual RACE DAY party. Unfortunately, that also
means I get to see very little of the race sometimes, but that's okay.
I've converted a few fans this way... :)

Cindy

Re: Night races

I don't think there's a fix for that, given the three hour time difference.
That's actually easier to do with afternoon races than with evening races:
while I can understand a Californian saying "can't we have a four hour race
from time to time that starts at 7 pm for us?", it obviously doesn't fly for
a major race with no excessive delays to be *planned* to end at 2 am in
North Carolina........

--pig


On 5/24/08 14:41, in article 48382231$0$30491$4c368faf@roadrunner,com ,
"Cindy Murray" <c1ndyluhu@tx.rr,com > wrote:

> I would guess that's more of an East Coast problem than West Coast?
> They don't seem to end all that late here (unless there's an accident or
> something...) My complaint is that they START TOO EARLY -- 5 o'clock is
> still "late afternoon" here for a Saturday. We might still be mowing
> the yard, or relaxing in the pool after a hard day mowing the yard...

Re: Night races

Megan Zurawicz wrote:
> I don't think there's a fix for that, given the three hour time difference.
> That's actually easier to do with afternoon races than with evening races:
> while I can understand a Californian saying "can't we have a four hour race
> from time to time that starts at 7 pm for us?", it obviously doesn't fly for
> a major race with no excessive delays to be *planned* to end at 2 am in
> North Carolina........
>
> --pig
>
>
> On 5/24/08 14:41, in article 48382231$0$30491$4c368faf@roadrunner,com ,
> "Cindy Murray" <c1ndyluhu@tx.rr,com > wrote:
>
>> I would guess that's more of an East Coast problem than West Coast?
>> They don't seem to end all that late here (unless there's an accident or
>> something...) My complaint is that they START TOO EARLY -- 5 o'clock is
>> still "late afternoon" here for a Saturday. We might still be mowing
>> the yard, or relaxing in the pool after a hard day mowing the yard...
>

Yeah, but I'm in the central time zone, so a race starting at 5 here
means it started at 6 on the east coast and it started at 3(!) on the
west coast. They can't move it one hour to start at 7? That would put
it ending at midnight for the east coast. That's not THAT bad -- in
fact, no worse that many evening baseball, football, basketball, or
hockey games....and those happen EVERY WEEK!

Re: Night races

Cindy Murray <c1ndyluhu@tx.rr,com > wrote in
news:48397be7$0$30524$4c368faf@roadrunner,com :

> Yeah, but I'm in the central time zone, so a race starting at 5 here
> means it started at 6 on the east coast and it started at 3(!) on the
> west coast. They can't move it one hour to start at 7? That would
> put it ending at midnight for the east coast. That's not THAT bad --
> in fact, no worse that many evening baseball, football, basketball, or
> hockey games....and those happen EVERY WEEK!

Starting @ 7 wouldn't bother me (modulo my general dislike of
night races). It's the ones where the "start" is at 8, and they
actually get done with the BS & drop the green at 8:30, that
annoy me. Even a 400 lap/mile race is hard to finish before
midnight when they don't start till after 8.

John