The Bear watched Champ Car at San Jose today, and it crossed his mind he should have watched the taxi cabs at the Brickyard. However, after hearing on NASCAR’s pre-race show “…he went and done some TV…” he just figured he wouldn’t be able to take the assault on his ears. He is a literate Bear, you know. Later, friends who did watch passed on such quotes as “all rubbered up with rubber”, and about Montoya, (who finished second) that he “surprised everybody, never having run at this place before,” Murphy was content to stick with Champ Car no matter how sad that bit of racing. Actually, he should have taken a nice little nap. (more…)
Archive for July, 2007
53. Disappearing Entries, Schedule Speculation, Interlagos Life Support
Monday, July 30th, 200752. Rippin’ Lime Rock, Solo Al, Missin’ Milka, and Ham Hocks
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Shhhh! Maybe they won’t figure it out!
A friend of the Bear’s sent him an e-mail the other day titled “Lime Rock Rip Off.” Murphy was a bit startled at the title, but he read the text, which was thus: “$100/per ticket for 3 classes of races. With all of the downtime they had if this was a PCA driving school with that much downtime, people would be shooting at the organizers.” Notice the writer’s reference to “PCA” (Porsche Club of America). The writer is one of those – you know – Porschephiles, one who actually owns one of the darn things. (In other words, dead center of the American Le Mans Series target demographic.) Murphy knows he’s been to Lime Rock before, and makes an annual trek to Sebring, where he and his friends (some of whom – horrors – drive Corvettes) make up a part of the wildlife at turn thirteen. The Bear had to take such a view pretty seriously, didn’t he? Especially since there was (finally) a pretty large crowd that might have felt the same. (more…)
51. A Viper, Evil Angel, and Heidi in Pahrump (Updated)
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Gnomes in Caves
The Bear heard that the gnomes in Weissach (or are gnomes only in Scandinavia and Zürich?) were “shocked,” when IMSA announced that it would follow the ACO and reduce restrictor area by 5% for the naturally aspirated LM-P2s in the season’s second half. Is that a case of protesting for the record, or have they not peeked out of their caves since Sebring? For most who were paying attention, the change was a foregone conclusion by the time the ALMS circus arrived at Miller Motorsports Park, and anyone with a pulse had to anticipate it by the end of that weekend.
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