Monday, May 31, 2004

1,100 miles of racing

Or so I thought. Ever since I became a fan of auto racing a few years ago (October 1998 to be exact), I look forward to the day before Memorial Day. This is the day that the Indy 500 is run early in the day (noonish) and the Coca-Cola 600, NASCAR's longest race, starts around 5 p.m. It's a day of nothing but racing. And as a bonus, there is usually a Formula One race in the early morning, so you can overdose on racing. I love it.

But today's races sucked. I woke up too late to catch the F1 race in Germany (it started at 7:30 a.m. EST), but that was OK because the Indy 500 was coming on at 11 a.m. Well, it came on and it was in a rain delay. The green flag was supposed to wave around noon, but it ended up starting around 2 p.m. I did get to see Jessica Simpson sing the national anthem :-) So, the race started and it was going well, but it started to rain around 2:45 p.m. (only 28 laps were run) and they didn't get back to racing until around 4:30. At 5 p.m., I switched it over to Fox to watch the NASCAR coverage, so I missed the end of the Indy 500.

After watching ABC's coverage of the Indy 500, I have a new respect for Fox.

Anyway, the Coke 600 started on time and got off to a good start. But then Jeff Gordon (really the only reason I watch the races) started having problems with his car being "loose" and he dropped off the pace. He was 5 laps down only a quarter through the race. Really not a good day for racing. But at least Jimmy Johnson won the race. He did dominate and at one point, he had lapped the entire field. That's a pretty amazing fact. And he's now only 5 points behind Dale Jr. in the standings. Gordon dropped to 4th in the standings (from 3rd).

To add insult to injury, I just looked at my points in our fantasy racing game on Yahoo! (Crawfish Cup Series), and I've dropped from 1st to 3rd. But at least I'm only 8 points out of first. Boy, this is a tight race. And we still have a long way to go...

Once Gordon was out of contention for the win, Tammy and I decided to pull out a board game to play while we watched the race. Tammy chose Walt Disney Theme Park Monopoly. We hadn't played it in a long time; probably because every time we play, we have a fight. We vowed not to fight tonight. We did have a good time. I can't say we didn't have any fights, but we made up quickly.

Finally, I set up Tammy to be able to post to our blog. So keep checking back for her posts!

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