a quick interview with warren asking what happen woulda been nice, but i guess its only a 3 hr show and time was critical

Yes, as if we'd rather listen to a wired up John Force explaining to Austin Coil three or four times his countdown concerns, or hang around TS and RF's pits or watch RF try to pry the cap off the vent on that 55 gallon drum.

I told my wife the interview with Warren should be any minute now but it never happened. Maybe Warren wasn't in the mood to talk.

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Uh, yeah...........

Sean D

Randy, I was told that a camera in WJ's face could have been dangerous. I heard 'rumors' of a video tape that showed less than six seconds. I have to use 'rumor' since I didn't see the tape myself but there 'might' have been a malfunction...MIGHT, because the proof is 'out there somewhere'!

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I guess nobody read my previous post..............

Yea but Steve...that would explain it and there would be no need for more posts speculating..hey this is the Mater Dude..

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I read it. And I blew it off because it sounded like a politically correct response to a fan from someone who had a few hours to formulate an anwer.

Warren sat there a long time and almost seemed surprised when Rick Stewert told him he was out. My feeble attempt at a guess with regard to the situation would be to say that when Johnny quickly staged WJ didn't see it on the tree and was patiently waiting as if he was expecting some sort of games to be played.

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Hey Darryl:

At the risk of stealing a line from John Force himself, I watched it on my DVR three times. Rick Stewart could have painted a picture of the Christmas tree during the time between Johnny Gray staging his car and WJ's red light coming on.

If WJ was aware that Gray staged immediately after he pre staged, he had to have known he was pushing his luck.

In WJ's defense, Rick didn't do his typical academy award winning animated 7 second countdown in front of WJ and the TV cameras before autostart timed him out. And, as far as I know, Autostart is a random program (and should be due to the game players) which keeps it from being 100% predictable.

If WJ would have done his job and raced Gray straight up this conversation wouldn't be taking place.

RG

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Man, he was making me nervous the way he was trying to pop the cap off that drum,then it went flying & he kinda looked like "oh crap I hope that didn't hit anybody"

I know there are several on here that say it was less than seven seconds, but I can tell you if it was, it wasn't a helluva lot less than seven seconds, I can assure you. I played it back several times, and depending on how quick you can trip the switch after Gray went in, it's all but seven seconds. On top of that, it didn't even sound to me like Warren had the Rpm's up preparing to go in. So even if it was five or six seconds, I'm not real sure he would have made it anyway.

No matter how many times you play it over, he was cutting it too close and that's the bottom line. And I'm not saying that as a Warren hater, either. As a matter of fact, I was pi$$ed and literally screaming at the screen when it happened. It just burns my a$$ to see that caliber of car sitting in 11th place in the standings.

Sean D

I don't know about anyone here but I laughed when I saw that... "scratch, scratch.... BOING!" LOL

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I agree.

Maybe WJ needs to rethink his strategy.

Does that strategy include retirement?

Methinks it's time to hang up the driving gloves and put another shoe in there - Justin Humpheys, maybe?

*Ducks behind a table waiting for people to bash this post.*

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Even though I've been a WJ fan for some time, I'm almost there with you. I sat there, watching the time clicking away and thought to myself "Jeez, he's going to get timed out!" and sure enough, it happened. Various drivers have been asked when they're going to retire, and many answer "When it isn't fun any more." Didn't look like WJ was having much fun after that.

I figured there wasn't going to be any interview though. He doesn't lose lightly. I remember one time a while back in the Diamond P era (Back when they still drove their cars back to the pits.) when Steve Evans was interviewing a driver who'd just beaten WJ. During the interview, Warren was stomping around in the back ground, angrily shoving his chute into the car and slamming the door. Then, before the interview was over, he fired his car up, whacked the throttle a couple of times, and left the area. Anyone else remember that? I thought it was quite halarious.

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Can't compare it to Johnson. There was a photo to back up (prove) the malfunction.

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