Rearranging the rearrangement.
08/18/2008
No roommate for me right now.
I moved my office back to the study during the race yesterday. It turned out not to be a match. It was a closet issue, better to know now, it was a deal breaker. I do have too much stuff for one closet and wasn’t willing to go through it yesterday. One of these days I will go through my stuff, but not with less than 24 hours notice.
It was an exciting race for me with the exception of the last 25 laps. There were too many cautions. I was listening to my new other driver, Brian Vickers and the Red Bull team. Robby is falling so fast in points and his potty mouth on the radio isn’t great to listen to. Juan Pablo Montoya seems to have peaked also and I don’t find his radio very exciting anymore. I was listening to Chad, he and Jimmy Johnson also have great dialog on the radio. I switched over to Brad Coleman for a bit, the new Houston driver with the rookie stripe. It was his first Cup race, his first time on a big oval, other than TMS, fist time in the big cars during a race and he managed to bring the car home with out wrecking it. He was a few laps down but got the job done.
I did notice the when the driver trusts the crew chief, there is a lot better dynamic with the whole team. The driver drives the car, the crew chief makes the decision and the spotters let them know what’s going on. The over the wall guys get the job done with the direction of the crew chief, observations from the driver and information from the spotter, its teamwork that brings them to the front.
It reminds me a lot of work right now. The lack of teamwork shows up very slowly at first, then at crunch time, it falls apart quickly. It’s like a bad pit stop. The numbers are starting to show. It feels like we lost a lap during a green flag stop.
