The World's Best Sports Car Drivers All Run Into Each Other

Hoo, boy.
The Baltimore Grand Prix is famous for big-money wrecks but this one stands out, insofar as it’s the worst kind of crash a racer can have: one that happens before you get to do any racing at all. The Sunday-evening quarterbacking’s been intense, with various people being assigned blame. One name being thrown around is Scott Tucker, primarily because he’s the most high-profile pay driver in the melee. Jalopnik wrote a long story about Mr. Tucker’s business practices in the past. As a former manager of a check-cashing store, your humble E-I-C pro tem has a thorough and visceral distaste for that miserable, repulsive business, so the less I say about that the better. Let’s just say that Mr. Tucker can certainly afford to buy himself a new prototype. The question will be: are the rest of the participants in the crash just as well-off? In high-end sports-car racing, you never really know.
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"Your humble E-I-C pro tem has a thorough and visceral distaste for that miserable, repulsive business" - I like Jack more and more. Check cashing businesses and payday loan shops are leeches on America's struggling working class. Mr. Tucker can drive off a cliff for all I care, especially if that puts more talented drivers into the arena.
This story reminded me of the high school where my kids went to school. Lots of fender benders with rich brats in high priced cars they did not deserve. "Biased Dad Comment" my son had the clapped out 1991 Explorer 2 door 5 speed manual at the time and was proud that it was both his money into it and our sweat and blood that kept it on the road.
Upon seeing the title in my inbox, I assumed this article would be about a BMW dealer service department.
This "race track" is a massive fail. Does anyone still doubt this after having watched the HORRENDOUS IndyCar race the following day? Oh yeah! It's really fun to watch million dollar open wheel cars and prototypes bounce around on uneven pavement like a porno star's fake boobies, and then catch some air at the chicane. The IndyCar even spent like half of its time under full course cautions. So did the ALMS race. Isn't this fun? I hope this event doesn't return in 2014.