Charles

[Charles @cjs3872]

March 21 SPECIAL UPDATE: With the way the pandemic has progressed here in the USA, it had to happen. Tonight, the USA became the first (and I hope, the only) nation to report over ONE MILLION known #coronavirus deaths. 💔💔😢

There are no map chart changes tonight.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@DennyDelivers2 @MattWeaverRA Crazier still is what was learned in the aftermath of the race, because it's entirely possible that, with all the talk about consistency and winning being important, the idiotic rule NASCAR put in awarding a point for the driver with the fastest lap could decide the championship.

[Charles @cjs3872]

Crazy scenario? Consider this. Based on the today's results, Denny Hamlin had a 2 point lead, but because Tyler Reddick, who finished LAST, had the fastest lap, that lead got cut to 1. What if that scenario results in a tie, and the guy that seemingly won the title, loses out.

[Charles @cjs3872]

The aftermath of today's @NASCAR race at @RaceSonoma revealed a possible nightmarre scenario for the championship. What if the championship winds up being decided by the idiotic decision NASCAR made a couple of years back to award 1 point to the driver with the fastest lap?

[Charles @cjs3872]

With all the talk about consistency & winning being more important this year, it's entirely possible that a seemingly meaningless lap at Homestead by a driver back in the pack could wind up deciding the championship for the entire season, if it's the fastest turned in that race.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@allenanalysis And that could never happen because the only way to overrride a constiutional amendment is with another constitutional amendment, like how the 18th Amendment (which outlawed the sale, manufacturing, & transportation of alcoholic beverages) was overridden by the 21st Amendment.

[Charles @cjs3872]

Another episode from that same season of Super Friends, "The Weather Maker", was a description of what may very well happen is the AMOC collapses, which could shut down the Gulf Stream. Animation studios, with all the research they did, were warning us all the way back then.

[Charles @cjs3872]

What's happening with these global climate disasters is basically something that Hanna-Barbera was trying to warn us about all the way back in the 1970s. The Super Friends episode "Too Hot to Handle" from 1973, was a warning for what's currently happening with the heat waves.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@transitnerdery @marcjoffe I'm not certain that, unless a tunneling project is done between the Antelope Valley and Central Valley, that a Gold Runner extension to LA on the current alignment, even if it were allowed by the freight companies, would even be viable. LAU to Lancaster takes just over 2 hrs.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@KellieBlundell In fact, he ran second to Earnhardt most of the way from about lap 55 until that last caution for Geoff Bodine's spin, and was about 6-8 seconds ahead of third place when the final round of pit stops began. So he was clearly better than everyone else but Earnhardt that day.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@EricEstepp17 And as Ryan Preece predicted after his crash late in the 2025 Daytona 500, there's going to be a time when someone is not going to be able to walk away from such an incident. Day, Bell, Mayer, Zilisch, and now Austin Green have all had vicious crashes since late-May.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@joe_srigley The one today boggles the mind, because I don't recall that ever happening there. The walls that moved/broke last week were designed to give/move because they were temporary and what happened at Michigan was a result of cars hitting so hard that it was inevitable.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@Jimmie_DennyFan What's crazy is that, in his career, Jeff Gordon won 17 of them, 21 if you count his record four wins in the Talladega spring race. He won that race, the Brickyard 400, and the Southern 500 more often than all but Hamlin among active drivers have TOTAL crown jewel race wins.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@NASCAR THIS is EXACTLY what I was referring to in the previous post in this thread. Given the number of serious incidents in just the last month, the last thing the sport needs is for another serious incident to occur because the Heim/Hocevar situation.

https://t.co/vTNgAV6bF4

[Charles @cjs3872]

With all that's happened SINCE the end of last week's races at Coronado, I think many forget that, @NASCAR is unfortunately getting perilously close to seeing the warning that @RyanPreece_ issued after his crash in LAST YEAR's Daytona 500 come to pass.

[Charles @cjs3872]

@NASCAR And I'll also state this. The once-again brewing situation between Carson Hocevar and Corey Heim is not making that situation any better. (Hocevar's recent comments about the Love/Zilisch friendship isn't exactly calming things, either.)

[Charles @cjs3872]

@alwaysrealracin My top 8, since there are eight drivers that clearly stand above the rest:

1. Richard Petty
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Bobby Allison
4. Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
5. Jimmie Johnson
6. David Pearson
7. Cale Yarborough
8. Darrell Waltrip

[Charles @cjs3872]

@DhariLo @CovidDataReport Puerto Rico's COVID BioData page. What I do is to check the cumulative counts daily at the mid-to-late afternoon update daily (they still update 3 to 4x per day), and use the cumulative counts and add in the increase in the cumulative totals.

https://t.co/HePNb0bBi6

[Charles @cjs3872]

@motohocevar In fact, after the NOAPS race at Dover, in which Rajah had his THIRD run-in with Jesse Love and another with Harrison Burton, Carson, who was not in that race, had a conversation with Rajah somewhat similar to the one that Bubba Wallace would later have with him at Michigan.