That's Really Taking the Extra Crispy Thing Too Far

Being a sports car fan, I had high hopes that lots of NASCAR fans would tune in yesterday to see Dale Earnhardt, Jr. drive one of the GTS Corvettes in the ALMS race at Sears Point.  Unfortunately, an untimely spin in the morning warmup left Junior dazed, on fire, and, of course, out of the race.  I'm sure there are rabid Junior fans who are pissed beyond belief at the ALMS folks right now for risking their boy's career.  Hopefully they tuned away once informed of Junior's situation, as the race itself was quite a snore.  ALMS can only go on so log with three of its four classes on life support in terms of real competition.  And Champion running a second R8 is not the answer.
 
As for the media response to Junior's wreck, two things.  First, this was not an assassination attempt on the President or another Al-queda attack.  A race driver had a pretty nasty wreck and fire, but there was no need to interrupt regularly scheduled programming (the always exciting Speed World Challenge Touring race from Sears Point) or send one of the pit reporters to the hospital to stand vigil.  Calm down, guys.  Second, get your facts straight about what happened!  No, NASCAR.com, Junior was not racing in Trans-Am or the Grand-Am series, and no, USA Today, he was not driving a "Corvette prototype" that he had raced earlier this year at Daytona (the 'Vettes, and anything resembling a real GTS car, were far from Daytona during the 24 Hours this year).  I know that the road racing situation in the US is chaotic sometimes (not Blakely world chaotic, but still), but at least do some research before you head for the keyboards.
 
And one more thing - is there any irony in the fact that the DEI spokesman who updated Junior's condition was named Crisp?