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    Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery

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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    Damn, the 859th time I don't watch the race and something interesting happens...
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    Were their coonhounds okay?
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    Image of stevezilla stevezilla
    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    i think they meant "Edwards"
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    04/27/09

    @stevezilla: Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews... I get those two confused all the time.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    That was some scary shit. Glad no one was badly hurt.


    Here's the 1987 crash Waltrip referred to in the second video. It's the reason they started using restrictor plates.

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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    No, THIS is the craziest NASCAR finish. Watch Clint Bowyer's #7 Jack Daniels car:
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    So, how long until someone with a movie editor switches out the audio for the Edwards crash and run to Pat Benatar's "We Belong"?
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    04/27/09

    @JoeHardrock: It'll happen soon enough, I'm sure.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    You're my best friend.
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    04/27/09

    @Ash69 Happy Dragon Jaropnik Edition: Who are you talking to?
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    Shake and bake!


    I can't believe I'm the first one to say that here.

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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    I was worried that the fan with the broken jaw also lost a lot of teeth. Then I remembered that this was a NASCAR race, and the teeth were probably already missing.
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    04/27/09

    @OldeEnglishD: L O L, my humorous forth letter of the alphabet friend! Maybe they can make her some purdy teeth out of the Fusion parts fused in her jaw? She'd be the most popularist gurl in tha hole dang Trailer Park!
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    A question for you NASCAR guys, say two cars fighting for the lead collided on the last stretch before the finish line and one of the cars took off into the air, flew over the other car to land first after the finish line, does that still count as a win? That would be awesome!
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    04/27/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver:


    :) Yes


    About 10 years ago Rusty Wallace went airborne across the finish line at 'Dega and finished 7th. It was a epic roll and wreck.

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    04/27/09

    @lilwillie wants another PCH:


    Earnhardt initially thought he had killed his buddy Rusty.

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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    What nobody seems to be talking about, or giving much more than glancing attention to, is this EXACT SAME THING happened last fall between Tony Stewart and Regan Smith. Except Smith, driving the car on the inside, moved over at the moment of contact to prevent a wreck, and NASCAR went all nuts about he had advanced his position below the yellow line and not only took the win away, but scored Smith in 18th place, costing him a lot of money.


    This year, Keslowske admitted that last fall's finish weighed on his mind when he held the wheel straight and turned Edwards around.


    It was exactly what NASCAR wanted. The big wreck, the media attention, everything--whether they admit it or not, they engineered this event with their enforcement of the rules.


    Although, for all the hoopla about their precious yellow line rule, they did NOTHING earlier in the race when Brian Vickers and Brad Keslowske passed a slow car by going under the yellow line. NASCAR did issue a warning to Vickers.


    It's the selective enforcement of the rule that pisses off people who watch the sport.


    But, like I say, apparently NASCAR got what it wanted yesterday, and like Edwards said after he took off his helmet, nothing is going to be done until somebody else dies, and then NASCAR will suddenly put an emphasis on safety. Well, I guess if one of the more popular drivers dies. They proved back in 2000 it doesn't bother them enough to do anything when the morgues start filling up with their lesser known drivers.

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    04/27/09

    @WilliamG.: One would have thought that the first driver to die in Y2K - 4th generation driver and grandson of "The King" Adam Petty - would have been a big enough call to action. Obviously it wasn't.


    And yes, NA$CAR is about as consistent with rules enforcement as Oprah is with keeping the pounds off.

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    04/28/09

    @WilliamG.: Engineerd snuck into one of my posts one time too.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    NASCAR can't even do crashes right. Wasn't it LeMans where a Mercedes crashed and the hood took off seven spectators' heads?


    Say, can I print my ticket to hell from my work computer?


    Also, here's something funny...Carl Edwards went from running across the finish line to driving the last stretch of the Fusion Hybrid in the 1000-mile endurance test (1000 miles, one tank of gas, and they made it).

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    Image of Alan Olson Alan Olson
    04/27/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: Not sure about the event you reference, but it was LeMans where a magnesium-bodied Mercedes crashed, exploded, and killed 81 people. And that's why motorsports are illegal in Switzerland. It's not "awesome," it's a tragedy.
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    04/27/09

    @Alan Olson: An exploding car is both awesome and tragic. A ban on motorsports in a country with incredible switchbacks and winding roads? That's a damn tragedy.
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    04/28/09

    @FuzzyPlushroomanyte: Seconded.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    Here comes the number 99 car, no wait, it's number 66, no, I'm sorry, it's number 99, wait, now it's number 66.
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    04/27/09

    @Tiberiuswise, now with incriminating, commas: That was funny.
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    04/27/09

    @Tiberiuswise: Just remember, shiny side up!
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    04/27/09

    @Tiberiuswise gazing at the Pontiac Moon.: Well played!
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    In other news, actually interesting racing happened in Japan, Bahrain and Argentina.

    Man does NASCAR bore me, even when a hellacious crash occurs it is just deathly boring stuff.
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    04/27/09

    @harumph:
    ooh, someone watched a summary of racing events, perhaps even the Speed Report.


    Interesting racing happens lots of places every weekend. Perhaps you should get a NASA or SCCA membership and go out and be a part of it. I hope you caught the tv coverage of the actually interesting racing at Long Beach last week. Doubtful though as most Americans would rather grumble about NASCAR being the only thing on rather than flip through channels or check the sports page. Lastly, you left out a certain race at VIR. I'd mention Kansas, but apparently oval racing cannot be interesting.

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    04/27/09

    @79TA: Actually I stayed up til 3 am watching Moto GP at Motegi because I don't have cable and I desperately wanted to catch the entire race, not the condensed Speed TV version. But since you already know so much about me I shouldn't have had to tell you.
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    04/28/09

    @harumph: TURN LEFT! NOW GO FAST!!!


    [www.theonion.com]

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    Image of Thrashy, perpetual Minardi Thrashy, perpetual Minardi
    04/27/09

    In reply to Carl Edwards Real-Life Talladega Nights NASCAR Crash: Video, Gallery
    I hear there was something that looked like real, actual racing, with real, actual turns that happened this weekend in the Persian Gulf or something. Why don't we talk about that instead?
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    04/27/09

    @Thrashy is like FTF, but for CRXes: Somewhere around Bahrain, IIRC. I wouldn't know, since I live in the USA and only get to watch NASCAR.
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    04/27/09

    @Thrashy is like FTF, but for CRXes: Real, actual racing and F1 are two things that never go into the same sentence.
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    04/27/09

    @twinturbo2: You obviously haven't been watching F1 for the last 2 years.
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    04/27/09

    @Thrashy is like FTF, but for CRXes: Because it did not involve beer.
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    04/27/09

    @All_Thumbs: You're right. I was put to sleep every time I attempted to watch an F1 race.
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    04/27/09

    @twinturbo2: Is that because you were up past your bedtime?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    04/27/09

    @Thrashy is like FTF, but for CRXes: Because there were no crashes, and only one car failed to finish?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    04/27/09

    @engineerd: It was on Speed live Sunday morning. A good, if somewhat boring race.
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