2017 Petit Le mans. 'Anyone notice....

Promoters will take such liberties to hype their events.

Now that NACSAR is in charge of our IMSA, this should come as no surprise as this is the
same outfit that ran GrandAm which proclaimed Scott Pruett to be "America's most
accomplished sports car driver", flying in the face of Hurley Haywood.

NBD really.

BHW

 

This way they get to celebrate the 20th anniversary twice.

 

Genetic ???

Thesaurus:

Adj.

1. genetic - occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
hereditary, inherited, transmitted, familial, transmissible
heritable, inheritable - capable of being inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title"

2. genetic - of or relating to or produced by or being a gene; "genic combinations"; "genetic code"
genetical, genic


3. genetic - pertaining to or referring to origin; "genetic history reconstructs the origins of a literary work"

4. genetic - of or relating to the science of genetics; "genetic research"

 

Reminds me of the conversation we had here a couple or three years ago about how
tracks stretch the truth about actual crowd sizes.

Sebring is a perfect example of how each year they'll report "record crowds". This is to
ensure that they may charge sponsors ever increasing rates to pad their bottom line. Sebring
will hype up the numbers taking into account the crowds that begin arriving on the Wednesday
and rolling them over each day through the weekend, (bingo!) 200,000 people.

This practice has been going on for a long time now. So, back in the early 00's during the
height of the Panoz ALMS era a writer came up with a mathematical formula for squeezing
200,000 bodies into the facility at Sebring taking into account the actual physical acreage of SIR,
minus things like how much space is taken up by the track itself and other aspects.

It was a great article as the writer took a lot of time to figure all this out (wish I could find
the link to the article now) but the gist was that in order for Sebring to host 200,000 people,
they'd have to be squeezed in like sardines, standing on each others' shoulders four high
across the entire area designated for spectators.

The point is, tracks will take certain creative license to promote their events. Over reporting
crowd sizes and "anniversary" events are always a solid way to build excitement and boost
ticket sales.

BHW

 

Just like the new Millenium was celebrated on 1st Jan 2000.

The new Millenium in fact started on 1st Jan 2001.

But a round figure was more catchy to promote the celebrations worldwide, so the organisers took some liberty with the calendar, and the majority of people didn't notice anything!!

 

Which would all make sense if there had been a "year zero." There was not. You need to add one year.

Will it make everyone feel better if we call this the first anniversary of the nineteenth running of Petit Lemans?

 

If I only told you how many years my wife has been 42.

 

42?

amateur.

she's supposed to be stuck on 39.

 

Surely the first millennium finished on the last day of 1000, and therefore the second millennium started on January 1st 1001.

 

Didn't Indy milk the "100th 500" twice? Once for the 100th anniversary of its inception and once for the 100th running of the 500, if I'm not wrong.

 

Three years for Indy I believe. 100 years for the track, 100 races (breaks in there for WW's 1 and 2) and then a year in between.