Welcome readers, today on NASCAR burning questions, I'm talking about Memorial Day Weekend's Motorsports Longest Day and all of the action from the Monaco, Indianapolis and the Coca-Cola 600.
1. Was Formula 1's biggest race, the Monaco Grand Prix a good race or not?
While it all depends upon what you categorize as a good race, personally I found Sunday Mornings Monaco Grand Prix to be okay at best.
While it all depends upon what you categorize as a good race, personally I found Sunday Mornings Monaco Grand Prix to be okay at best.
Sure there was the beautiful sights and sounds of Monaco and near by Monte Carlo and by the end of the race, the top 5 were racing nose to tail at the end of it. But there was really no on-track passing. Instead if you wanted to pass, you had to do it with pit strategy and that a classic example of that was defending World Champion Vettel going from outside the top 10 to a fourth place finish. Otherwise welcome to follow the leader type race with the polesitter Mark Webber winning another one for Red Bull Racing.
2. Was the 2012 Indianapolis 500 a good race or not?
While every racing fan has there own criteria of what is a good race. My criteria of a good race is plenty of passing not only through the entire field, but for the lead, good pit strategy, a few cautions for good measure to reset the field without a bunch of wrecks and ending with a close finish for the win.
And Sunday's Indy 500 lived up to all that and more and in my eyes was clearly a good race and very entertaining to watch on television. Fans saw over 30 lead changes, some wild single-file restarts that quickly grow to two-three-four wide racing heading down the front straightaway and two-wide into turn 1 to drivers gaining four-five spots on just one restart.
But unfortunately there were a few moments that fans surprised and that included a early race accident with Mike Convey breaking a front wing piece (after contact with one of his crew members) and hitting the outside wall hard, collecting Will Power in the process that had no place to go. Power had ever right to be upset, Something wasn't right with that accident.
And of course it all came down to a battle for the lead on the last lap between second place Takuma Sato and leader Dario Franchitti that resulted in leader Franchitti running Sato all the way to the inside wall down the front straightaway and into turn 1 with Sato being turned around and hitting the outside wall hard and Dario Franchitti winning the race.
In my eyes both drivers made mistakes, Sato should have waited, instead of forcing the issue and Franchitti shouldn't have forced him over and pinched him down in turn 1. Both drivers made mistakes and in the end, its should have been handled better, but that's racing. And despite the finish and winner, this was a good race.
3. Was the Coca-Cola 600 a good race?
Sorry NASCAR, but no, the Coca-Cola 600 wasn't a good race. Sure it had some good racing, but it missed so much and while I have no problem with 600 miles at Charlotte, the race simply didn't have that wow factor. However in the end, the best moment of this race was Kasey Kahne winning his 3rd Coca-Cola 600 and giving the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet its first win of 2012.
4. Which race (Monaco Grand Prix, The Indianapolis 500 or the Coca-Cola 600) was the best race of the Memorial Day Weekend?
By far, the Indianapolis 500 was the best race of the weekend and the just for the record, the Monaco Grand Prix was the worst race of the weekend. Yes I found the Coca-Cola 600 to be better than Monaco.
And thank you to all of our brave men and women in the military for all that you have done. God Bless America.
While every racing fan has there own criteria of what is a good race. My criteria of a good race is plenty of passing not only through the entire field, but for the lead, good pit strategy, a few cautions for good measure to reset the field without a bunch of wrecks and ending with a close finish for the win.
And Sunday's Indy 500 lived up to all that and more and in my eyes was clearly a good race and very entertaining to watch on television. Fans saw over 30 lead changes, some wild single-file restarts that quickly grow to two-three-four wide racing heading down the front straightaway and two-wide into turn 1 to drivers gaining four-five spots on just one restart.
But unfortunately there were a few moments that fans surprised and that included a early race accident with Mike Convey breaking a front wing piece (after contact with one of his crew members) and hitting the outside wall hard, collecting Will Power in the process that had no place to go. Power had ever right to be upset, Something wasn't right with that accident.
And of course it all came down to a battle for the lead on the last lap between second place Takuma Sato and leader Dario Franchitti that resulted in leader Franchitti running Sato all the way to the inside wall down the front straightaway and into turn 1 with Sato being turned around and hitting the outside wall hard and Dario Franchitti winning the race.
In my eyes both drivers made mistakes, Sato should have waited, instead of forcing the issue and Franchitti shouldn't have forced him over and pinched him down in turn 1. Both drivers made mistakes and in the end, its should have been handled better, but that's racing. And despite the finish and winner, this was a good race.
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Sorry NASCAR, but no, the Coca-Cola 600 wasn't a good race. Sure it had some good racing, but it missed so much and while I have no problem with 600 miles at Charlotte, the race simply didn't have that wow factor. However in the end, the best moment of this race was Kasey Kahne winning his 3rd Coca-Cola 600 and giving the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet its first win of 2012.
4. Which race (Monaco Grand Prix, The Indianapolis 500 or the Coca-Cola 600) was the best race of the Memorial Day Weekend?
By far, the Indianapolis 500 was the best race of the weekend and the just for the record, the Monaco Grand Prix was the worst race of the weekend. Yes I found the Coca-Cola 600 to be better than Monaco.
And thank you to all of our brave men and women in the military for all that you have done. God Bless America.
