Shortly after a Nascar weekend was interrupted by a blizzard in Southern California, the United States government is exploring a new theory—that the mere presence of a Nascar race can end droughts.
“Correlation doesn’t equal causation, whatever that means”, said National Weather Service research scientist Dr. Marie Law. “But you can’t ignore the fact that it seems like when there’s Nascar, there’s a better-than-average chance of precipitation. Well, we’re aiming to see if there’s really anything to that theory.”
Dr. Law, who most-recently worked on a study to see if rain on a wedding day truly was ironic, has been taking years of data into consideration.
“We’re going back as far as 23 years ago to see if there’s anything to this”, Dr. Law said, “and we think there could be. We had to stop before we got to that one year Jeff Burton won a bunch of rain-delayed races because that could taint our data sample.”
As for the actual cause of a possible link between Nascar racing and rain, well, that’s what the National Weather Service aims to find out.
“It could be any number of things—extra pollutants in the air from the cars, the high concentration of high-temperature machinery in one spot, anything”, said Dr. Law. “We are aware that Darrell Waltrip said that racing could PREVENT rain, but quite frankly we feel that DW being wrong on something better supports our claim.
Dr. Law said that experiments will begin shortly to see if there is anything to the theory.
“We’re going to have an ‘exhibition race’ in a dry desert in a few weeks with a handful of cars”, Dr. Law said, “and we’re expecting that it could rain. Oh, and there won’t be any fans there due to the chance of lightning—no need for people to point out the lack of a crowd online.”
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