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Update: Eight Injured at Talladega

April 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Motor racing

This, from ESPN.com’s NASCAR reporter, Terry Blount. The medical guy at the track says eight spectators were injured after Carl Edwards’ car got airborne near the finish line and ended up in the catchfence, shedding parts like a bomb sheds shrapnel. I’m not going to link to the story. I’m going to run the whole […]

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NASCAR’s Talladega Disaster

April 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Motor racing

This was a classic NASCAR Knuckle-Dragger race. There will be X number of Sprint Cup fans — the knuckle-dragging majority, I fear — who will think this was just a great day for the sport. Two massive wrecks, involving something like a dozen cars each … a four-lap banzai charge to the checkered flag at […]

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