The NASCAR "Lucky Dog" Rule Explained

In NASCAR, the "lucky dog" rule says that when a caution comes out, the first car 1 lap behind the leader gets to move back onto the lead lap. It may sound simple, but here are some parts of the rule that make it very confusing. If the car that would have gotten the lucky dog was involved in the caution, nobody gets the lucky dog. If the caution comes out with 10 or less laps to go, there are no lucky dogs. There are 12 points on the racetrack where the position of each car is measured when a caution comes out, so the first car a lap down when the caution comes out is not always the person who gets the lucky dog. Confusing? I think so.

So, what is the reason for this complicated rule? In NASCAR, when a caution would come out, cars could race back to the start/finish line. NASCAR decided that this was not safe because safety workers needed to get to cars immediately and sometimes crashed cars would be in the track. When cars were aloud to race back to the line, leaders of the race would sometimes slow down and let lapped cars that were close pass. When NASCAR changed the rules, they decided that cars should still have a chance to get back on the lead lap when the caution came out. This rule also gives the fans another race within the race to watch. This rule has had some controversy though; many people argue that it is giving a driver who was not good enough to race on the lead lap a chance to compete for the win. Some drivers will sometimes use this rule to there advantage by using strategies that will put them a lap down, then when the caution comes out, they will get back on the lead lap and have a chance to win. Still, the lucky dog rule is a big part of every race, whenever the caution comes out everybody is anxious to hear who the lucky dog is.

Buying Action Figures

If you have a collection of something, you want to make your collection grow and collecting action figures is no different. You can, of course, look in your local store for action figures but sometimes you can't find that certain action figure that you are looking for. When this happens to me, I like to look on eBay.

EBay is great for buying things like action figures because there is a fairly good chance that the one you are looking for is on there and if it isn't, it probably will be soon. EBay is also good because sometime you can get a very good deal. Without using the internet, you can spend years looking for that one certain action figure that you want and then when you finally are able to find it; it is way out of your price range. On eBay, you can find what you are looking for very easily and, if the auction falls in your favor, you can get what you are bidding on for a lot cheaper than it would be at your local store. Even when it is not a rare action figure that you are looking for, it is still a good idea to check eBay because of these great deals. Just to add to all of this, you don't even have to leave your house, this make buying your favorite action figures very easy.

How To Annoy A Football Fan

I can't decide whether I am happier when my team wins or when my friend's team loses, just so I can rub it in his face. Now, of course, there are many ways I do this. To me, annoying somebody is an art where anybody can be an artist, or maybe it's just how I get my kicks.

To start, there are the normal tricks, cheer as loudly as possible whenever something happens that is not in the "rival" teams favor and boo whenever something is in their favor. But everybody does this, so we need something that will really get under our rival fans skin. Next time your friend goes to a home game of his favorite team, you need to go too, supporting the other team. You need to go all the way, jersey, face paint, foam finger, everything, and whenever everybody is booing, you need to cheer, and when everybody is cheering, boo. If you do this, you will not only be annoying your friend, but also all of the other fans sitting near you. Whenever I watch the game on TV, I always see somebody doing this, and I solute them. Anybody who will put themselves into this unfamiliar ground just to annoy their rival fans is a true fan of football because a true fan will do whatever it takes to show that their team is the best, even when that team is 2-14.

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Will the trend toward economy-size car models lead Americans back to buying smaller-sized cars?

You can tell a lot about a person by the car they drive. When you see someone drive by you in a Hummer, do you think, "They must spend a lot of money on gas" or do you think, "Wow, that's a nice car"

People will buy the car that they like the most, out of all the cars that they can afford. I don't buy a car because of its size; I buy a car because I can afford it, and because I like it.

If you want to drive around in a MINI Cooper, that is fine with me. But, if I had the choice, I would take a Lamborghini over a MINI any day of the week. If you can afford a Lamborghini, then you can afford $4650 a year on gas.

Is Bob Dylan a folk singer?

Bob Dylan has played many different styles of music. Early in his career he had, what some people would call the Folk time of his career. This is the time when his music sounded most like Folk music. But even then, there was something different about his music.

Bob Dylan doesn't play Folk, Rock, Country, Pop, Jazz, Gospel, or anything like that. He plays his own kind of music. This kind of music has helped shape all other genres of music.

Bob Dylan will play what he wants to play. He doesn't follow any specific rules. This is why any experienced Dylan fan can tell you the year a song was released, just by hearing Mr. Dylan's voice, even if they have never heard the song before.

Most people who know music will tell you, the two most influential artists/bands ever are The Beatles and Bob Dylan. If you think about it, Bob Dylan influenced The Beatles very much. Without Bob Dylan, The Beatles would have never been as popular as they were.

Bob Dylan doesn't play Folk music; he plays his own style of music. This is why he is, in my opinion, the best thing that happened to music since music itself was created.

Does poetry matter in the 21st century?

If you can fit the right words together in the right order, you can say more than any politician ever could. Poetry can say anything you want it to. It could be something that is only important to you. It could be something that you think the entire world needs to hear.

Anybody can write a poem, but not everybody can write a good poem. But, if you do it just right, it can have an affect on someone. If you can affect enough people, you can make a real difference.

Someday, we are all going to be gone, the world is going to go on without us. When you are gone, do you want people to remember you? Some of the most famous poems are from hundreds of years ago. Do you want people to remember you one hundred years from now? With a good poem, you could change something today, and you could change something hundreds of years from now.

Poetry can express something like nothing else can. Poetry matters in the 21st century, just as it did one thousand years ago, because long after we are gone, we can still make a difference with poetry.

This-Is-Racing

I have started a new blog called This-Is-Racing. This blog will be about car racing. It will manly focus on racing at local short tracks, but it will also include things about higher racing series's like NASCAR. Here is the link, http://this-is-racing.blogspot.com/

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