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Folks, I need to 'splain a few things to you
You know folks, there are all kinds of terms that we use among us racers. These are things you can say to another driver or someone in the garage area and they totally understand what you are saying.
One saying is, "You can be racin' or you can be ridin'." These young guys today see a race car and they think race. Some guys see a race car and they think they will race some and ride awhile. Because the races are so long, it's perfectly understandable. It's just two totally different styles.
These young guys who hop in these race cars only know to run as hard and as long as they can go. To them, that's racing. There are other guys that say, "Ok, go race yourselves to death, maybe you will beat yourself and I will slide right in there for the win." Maybe that's what Clint Bowyer was thinking Saturday night.
Another expression is, "There's rubbin' and there's wreckin'." There is an old theory in short track racing that you have heard us use a lot that eight tires are better than four. There's another principal about short track racing. If you have donuts on the left side of your race car, then you were in the way. That means you were being pushed up out of the way. If you have donuts on the right side of your race car, then you were racing. That means you were sticking it down underneath people and moving them up out of the way and going on.
On a short track most of the time, that's what it takes to be successful. You can't follow a guy around all night long and politely pass him. You have to get under him, move him out of the way and go on. It's simply typical short track racing all across America. That's just what you do. That's rubbin'.
You aren't taking a cheap shot on your competitor. I hate cheap shots, which is also called the bump and run. There's no such thing as a bump and run. You either hit the guy and moved him out of your way or you didn't. These are terms you typically find at any Saturday night short track across the country.
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