Stupid IRL Tricks

Just when I thought it was impossible for the IRL to be any more Mickey Mouse they go and pull a stunt like this! What is this stunt? It is the POC call made by Brian Barnhart on Saturday. At 12:15 pm this genius decided to close the track for the day. It was one of the lamest moves in IRL history, and God knows these buffoons are masters at lame moves!Now I could care less about the $10 I spent to get in. What galls me is the bullshit reasons for the call.We left home at about 11:15 to head to the track. On the radio they were talking about how it had quit raining and the trucks were on the track getting it dried off. Having seen the track be dried in about an hour last year at the 500 I knew we were going to see some qualifying. We had no sooner got to the Pagoda when the announcement came. The track was closed for the day.Disgusted and disappointed we moved over to the seats to see if any of the people we were supposed to meet had shown. I engaged a yellow shirt in a brief conversation and was just lied to. It is like fucking Nazi Germany out there. Toe the company line at all costs. This dumb bastard first told me it takes 3 hours to dry the track. (Company line) I told him that was BS since it was dried fast last year at the race. Next he told me there were puddles this (about a foot using his hands to show me) deep on pit lane and on the track. There is no way there were any puddles that deep anywhere on the newly paved track and for God’s sake, it hadn’t rained that fucking hard. Next he tried to tell me that another storm was coming in. Do these people think we are stupid? We saw the radar, he was lying.Barnhart’s arrogance was the motivation for this call. He had his precious little new format and he was afraid to miss any time for it. Therefore the couple of thousand people who went out there got screwed. Oh sure we could have used Saturday’s stub to get in on Sunday, but I couldn’t go yesterday and I am sure I wasn’t the only one. Instead the Speedway just makes more money for nothing. Too bad it didn’t rain on them yesterday.I love the Speedway, but it seems I become more disillusioned with it each and every day. The powers that be out there are completely wrong on so many fronts. For some reason they think they can just put the Indianapolis 500 out there and everyone will come running. I got news for you FTRG and all of your cohorts, THOSE DAYS ARE GONE!!