Posts Tagged ‘Graham Rahal’

161. Selling Booze – or Not. Scoring Murphy. The Tucker Rule. Corvette Pilots.

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Sebring – Screwing on your Wheels

Falken sent three wheels bounding down the track. One took out the Flying Lizard’s defending champions. Does that trifecta wipe out a previous Robertson Racing record of two stray wheels in a single race?

Sebring – Competence (continued)

All excuses (and resigned shrugs) aside. The fact that the GT2 race was ended nearly five hours before the checkered flag by IMSA rules (or the sloppy implementation of same) is stupid. Murphy thinks the ALMS is in the entertainment business, not just for the ticket-buying public, but for the sponsors of Flying Lizards Motorsports and Rahal Letterman Racing, and the rest, struggling for sponsors, all of them. The Braselburg puzzle palace better figure out how to keep those competitors in the show until they lose (or win) the race through their own efforts. (more…)

160. Watches. Dead Horse Department: USF1 (added). Driving Mister Fehan, The Perloined Part, Sebring Punter’s Guide

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Murphy muses about various topics and reports a few things he’s heard, then gives you his Punter’s Guide.

All About Watches

Watches have to be the most reliable cash cow for motorsports of all kinds. Rolex sponsors every concours and historic race it can lay its hands on, and keeps the 24 Hours of Daytona more or less on the map. Interestingly, its famous “Daytona” model predates its sponsorship of that race by over two decades. The “Daytona Paul Newman” is thought by some to be the most valuable of the many collector Rolexes. (more…)