Mikey, Mikey, Mikey; are YOU on drugs?
April 17th, 2008, 6:00 pm · 1 Comment · posted by rhoeft
Honest, I don’t have anything against Michael Waltrip.
It’s just that he says and does so many things that … well … get to me.
For example, Monday night I caught the “This Week in NASCAR” show with host Steve Byrnes and commentators Kenny Schrader and Waltrip.
And in the wake of driver Aaron Fike admitting last week to heroin addiction and saying he shot up every day, including race days, the subject of drug testing in NASCAR came up.
And Waltrip said he disagreed with many of his fellow competitors, like Kevin Harvick, who are calling for a stricter drug testing program in NASCAR.
Waltrip, said everything is OK just the way it is, that NASCAR knows that he, and Harvick, and Tony Stewart, for example, are all OK, and show up each week, clean and ready to race. And, he said, NASCAR should only be checking up on the those drivers who might be suspect.
What?!?
Michael, this is 2008, buddy! Nobody is above suspicion today. Nobody, no matter how squeaky clean an image someone might project. And that includes you!
Unfortunately, NASCAR agrees with Waltrip. Yeah, it’s true. Apparently they test only those who they suspect might be guilty of using drugs.
What!?!
Wake up! Please, somebody in NASCAR, wake up! In a day and age when Sprint Cup racing is gaining popularity by leaps and bonds, when race after race is sold out, when television audiences are growing bigger and bigger, it’s time to take the bull by the horns and become the biggest name in sports, lead by example, and establish a zero tolerance policy and a mandatory testing program that is not random, but possibly required before each race.
Too tough? Think about it. These cats are climbing into four-wheel rocket ships, and driving at over 200 miles per hour in some instances, at times only a fraction of an inch apart, sometimes even closer than that, if you know what I mean, and NASCAR isn’t worried that one of those drivers might be under the influence of one substance or another, because they know who they are?
I find that incredibly naive.
No, I find that incredibly stupid.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Hi there! Just saw your blog. I just want to mention that in the early 70’s or so I went to the Bobby Ball 150 which was in Phoenix. Walthrip was there. Ran out of gas…really. I was in the pits with the McCluskey crew. I mean….how stupid is that????…running out of gas…I mean…it was my first Indy race and I got to see the Unser’s push older drivers into the rail…honestly, then Waltrip runs out of gas as if he could drive that thing forever…and he never took a pit stop…and then McCluskey’s win was questioned and WHAT A BRAWL….Bobby and Al Unser; Waltrip…whatta whatta whatta???????