[writerguy]

Professional Automotive photojournalist

Have been at many Nascar races usually in the pits

Like watching paint dry even from the pits

When they inforced the Radial tire rule (dozens of years afer you could easliy find a pair of BiasBelted tires at a store) they had many many failures that resulted in the massive crashes at Taladega and otther super speedways. THe Hoosiers were mostly the ones who failed.

If You think F1 has no passing you have not seen a race this year

Granted the last few years has been a high speed parade but at least they don't pull the yellow out when someone has a lead to "clear debris" from the track...

The Crybabies as you put it had to race on ONE set of tires as mandated by the FIA. Bridgestone has a lot of testing time at Indy as they also own Firestone. The safety issue is huge doing 300+ KMPH and having a catastrophic tire failure is not something to take litely. They had sent in a second compound but the hard heads at the FIA refused to allow it.
Both Michelin and FIA have just shot themselves in a showdown. The race fan is the one who suffers.

By the way
the attached shots I took