Restrictor plates, roof blades, androgynous body shapes, etc. may delight the goobers in the grandstands, but only the largesse of the Almighty presented yet another hellacious, multi-car wreck or worse yet, a repeat of the Earnhardt tragedy involving another star driver. This, you will recall, was the oft-repeated claim of the late Mr. Earnhardt, who argued as have many other top drivers in all forms of racing that surpluses of power are what separate the men from the boys, no matter what the risk.
Motor racing is one of the last supreme tests of audacity remaining for the human race.
The boldest and most skillful ought to be the winners, not the craftiest, the cleverest and the most cautious. Let the best man win. Let s stop fiddling with aerodynamics in search of a chimerical equalization factor and let the stallions loose. While dealers in the southeast like the program, those in other parts of the nation especially the far west, see little or no impact. Speaking of impact, CART s European foray in September may be more akin to the Dieppe Raid than the Normandy invasion.