Stremme crashed more than Sam Hornish Jr ?????

David*

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Dec 18, 2009, 1:06:06 PM12/18/09

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I cannot believe these stats published by USA Today;

http://i.usatoday.net/sports/graphics/2009/nascar-crash-database/flash.htm

Sam Jr crashed nearly every week and some weeks he had multiple crashes
in the same race.
Yet they show only 20 wrecks all season - I don't think sooo.

USA Today is "cooking the books" on this one.
Wonder what their stats show global warming?

DAVe

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Dec 18, 2009, 2:20:10 PM12/18/09

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On Dec 18, 1:06 pm, "David*" <david.d...@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot believe these stats published by USA Today;
>

> http://i.usatoday.net/sports/graphics/2009/nascar-crash-database/flas...

>
> Sam Jr crashed nearly every week and some weeks he had multiple crashes
> in the same race.
> Yet they show only 20 wrecks all season - I don't think sooo.
>
> USA Today is "cooking the books" on this one.
> Wonder what their stats show global warming?

I agree with you that it seemed to me Hornish crashed a lot more then
Stremme.

I was also surprised to see Kurt Busch at 14 crashes.

IGot2P

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Dec 18, 2009, 2:41:31 PM12/18/09

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I think that they must stop counting Sam's crashes at 20 because he also
had 20 in 2008. :-)

Don

george9219

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Dec 18, 2009, 4:20:12 PM12/18/09

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On Dec 18, 2:41 pm, IGot2P <d...@crsales.com> wrote:
> David* wrote:
>
> > I cannot believe these stats published by USA Today;
>

> >http://i.usatoday.net/sports/graphics/2009/nascar-crash-database/flas...

>
> > Sam Jr crashed nearly every week and some weeks he had multiple crashes
> > in the same race.
> > Yet they show only 20 wrecks all season - I don't think sooo.
>
> > USA Today is "cooking the books" on this one.
> > Wonder what their stats show global warming?
>
> I think that they must stop counting Sam's crashes at 20 because he also
> had 20 in 2008. :-)
>
> Don

Hornish had a lot of "incidents" that weren't really "crashes". I can
recall a number of spins or brushing the wall, that likely would not
have been listed as crashes.

All the best See yah in Feb and now ...

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Dec 19, 2009, 3:36:36 PM12/19/09

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On Dec 18, 12:06�pm, "David*" <david.d...@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot believe these stats published by USA Today;
>

> http://i.usatoday.net/sports/graphics/2009/nascar-crash-database/flas...

>
> Sam Jr crashed nearly every week and some weeks he had multiple crashes
> in the same race.
> Yet they show only 20 wrecks all season - I don't think sooo.
>
> USA Today is "cooking the books" on this one.
> Wonder what their stats show global warming?

/darnit !! yOU ALL know that I started TRACKING Hornish in mid
88 --- but of course I was the dummie. I did NOT KEEP TRACK
OF how Many Problems he had @#$#@%.
XXX 20 weeks is stuipid and not even close.

All the best See yah in Feb and now ...

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Dec 19, 2009, 3:38:54 PM12/19/09

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> have been listed as crashes.- Hide quoted text -
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You are correct. When I started to discuss Sam and his high
number of " problems" I was including spins - spun out
sliding slipping etc. It was too much fun !!!