@TheAntiCat is rubbing up against the leg of the real Mr Spiegel: Only one? Must be breast cancer survivor week.

It's got the switch, now all it needs is a tow package.

@athodyd: You forgot about BMW now installing airbags in the trunk to protect your "precious cargo." We wouldn't want anybody to die before they're supposed to, would we?

@Nurburgringer: I can't wait to start racking up the mileage on my P1800. Gotta put new floors in it first :)

@Stiglet digs on oversteer: I used to do that commute, but that was back when gas was $1.15/gal. You got me doing the math and I'm still trying to figure how I got 287k on my Ranger in 8 yrs when I didn't drive it in the winter (it's a GT). I guess I just did a lot of dubbing around on the weekends back when I was…

When I retire, I'm going to tape an old-fashioned ice scraper to my car antenna and start driving south and west. I will take the time to visit all the little towns along the way. I will keep driving until some 8-10 year old child points at the ice scraper and asks "Hey mister, what's that?" That's where I will move…

@cheeezwhiz: It'd be interesting to see the whole financial breakdown as in which way the money travels between the track and NASCAR. Does NASCAR pay the track to hold a race and NASCAR keeps all the ad and TV money? Does a track have to pay NASCAR? There's big money in TV but who gets it, NASCAR or the track?

@SweetZombieJesus: The race only looks boring because you have an uneducated eye. To me soccer is the most tedious sport in existance. I imagine if I knew anything about various plays and setups it'd be more interesting.

@cheeezwhiz: What you don't realize about tickets, tickets=pure profit. There's no overhead except providing restrooms. As a courtesy you might provide traffic control, medical stations, and info booths. Everything else for sale has net and gross. TV is contracts and promotions and ratings dependant.

@mhr512: People bitch about the cost of going to a major sporting event or concert until they realize you're paying for the whole experience. Like Jimmy Buffett says "Don't

@noshun_no1: Yep, and that's why I love F1 and the like. It's a whole different experience. The problem is when the cars get too evenly matched or the course poorly designed you only get that kind of racing on the first lap, then it's just a freight train.

@noshun_no1: The biggest thing I miss about not going to a race, the vendor area. Lots and lots of crap. Cool crap, crap crap, whatever. It's just a big information overload. And you don't *have* to buy anything! You can just look. I usually end up "just looking" at the girls in the Hooters trailer :)

@TheEasyButton: No, so I miss your point...West Jersey? Environmental concerns a little low on the list of priorities? Maybe they just want the race to end sooner so the spectators have time to get back across the border before dark :)

@Jeb_Hoge: There's more passing in one lap of a NASCAR race than in an entire F1 race. I guess we have differing definitions of "racing".

@MadNachos: Don't get me wrong, I love the V8 Supercars, but they're like all the other road course races...except for pit problems, wrecks, and breakdowns, you pretty much know where everybody's gonna finish after the first few laps. It's a lot of nose-to-tail waiting for somebody to screw up.

@2xwishbonz: ...as compared to the last 30 min. of an NBA game? That's only 2 min. on the clock, the other 28 min. is timeouts, penalties, free throws, and commercials...essentially the most tedious part of the game. I'll just read the box scores tomorrow. No I won't either because basketball is just a bunch of…

@TheEasyButton: Seeing as how it's in California they're probably doing it because all those race car fumes are bad for the environment.

@MaWeiTao: They did that a few years ago. They put a time limit on how long btween pitches (sorta like a play clock in NFL.)

I'm thinking most of you have never actually *been* to a race. Any kind of race. Watching it on TV doesn't count. The sights, the sounds, the smells. It's an all-day affair. I paid my money and invested my time, I want to see some racing!

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Amen there. The fact that it's long is just one of the challenges. If it were short you'd just come out with a qualifying engine and have maybe 1 mandatory tire change (to a differnet compound) and you'd be done in less than 2 hrs.