Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for August 10, 2013

Or “and do away with those sissy roll bars, seat belts, …Fans want BLOOD”

Change the track configuration from an oval to a figure-8.

one of the jalopy races they had when I was a boy, was the 20 lap race or so where as soon as a car reached the half way mark they would have to do a u-turn and complete the remaining half of the race going in the opposite direction. Since the cars were strung out it, made for some interesting action

Must actually be a insurance company in disguise.

You really want to find out who the best driver is? There’s only one solution: two-way traffic.

That last panel reminds me of the old “Project Turnabout” joke paper that ran around tech offices back in the 70’s and 80’s. The idea was to build a vast array (vast is the operable word) of ground-anchored rockets that would, in the event of a nuclear attack, reverse the rotation of the Earth so the missiles would land back in the Soviet Union.

The joke — admittedly a techie one — was the bureaucratic mental gymnastics and rationalizations that went on deflecting the obvious physical and fiscal problems: The planet isn’t big enough to support enough turnaround rockets; there isn’t enough money (the budget was estimated at many times the gross national product (as it was called back then) nor enough manufacturing capability; and the simple fact that reversing the rotation, if it were possible, would cause everything on the surface to keep on going, flying off into space.

Mere stumbling blocks to the truly bureaucratic mind.

My son was disappointed when we took him to his first real auto race, and they didn’t have a power loop in the track like on his Hot Wheels set.

Maybe if the cars actually looked like Hot Wheels? Each driver gets his own special vehicle, no two alike!