I'm boycotting NASCAR

playallnite

playallnite

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I love motor racing but I could never "get" NASCAR, now I recently read that in one of their lower series they wouldn't let the driver/car attempt to qualify because his medical marijauna sponsor ship was forbidden.Now I have more reason to ignore it.Fuck the France family,big tobacco, and big alchohol.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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nascar is failing all by itself. the nite race in bristol used to be sold out the day after it ran. now it's half empty and they can't give tix away.
 
too larry

too larry

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I watched every race for 20 odd years. Stopped watching when Jeff hung it up. All F1 now. Races every 2nd or 3rd weekend, so it doesn't take over your life. And you don't have to worry about hearing who won {unless you listen to the BBC} if you are time shifting.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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playallnite said:
I love motor racing but I could never "get" NASCAR, now I recently read that in one of their lower series they wouldn't let the driver/car attempt to qualify because his medical marijauna sponsor ship was forbidden.Now I have more reason to ignore it.Fuck the France family,big tobacco, and big alchohol.
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Bill France himself outlawed overhead cams back in the late 1960s. I was done after that.

Dumb motherfuckers were still running carburators until 2012.

It's the automotive equivalent of World Wrestling Entertainment.
 
too larry

too larry

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ttystikk said:
Bill France himself outlawed overhead cams back in the late 1960s. I was done after that.

Dumb motherfuckers were still running carburators until 2012.

It's the automotive equivalent of World Wrestling Entertainment.
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The drivers are the product that is being sold, not so much the actual racing. Funny thing is F1 is going more in the NASCAR direction as far as getting the drivers out front. They have always been about racing with the best tech available, and the drivers were secondary to the teams.
 
hillbill

hillbill

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NASCAR does suck but I grew up in a racing town when real cars raced. NASCAR just happens to be a part of life a small family thing. Drivers now are are second, third or fourth generation and everything is multi million dollar shit, not a driver and buds building a hot rod and racing most nights all summer. The cars all look alike and have no relationship to available models. Way too inbred and stupid conservative thinking. This year cars can hardly be spun out with all the downforce and spoiler that is like a 10” vertical board and reducing horsepower to less than a lot of factory street cars.

Also, announcers that tow the Company line and carry the good ole boy crap way too far. Also promoting the new hot star like Danica or the Elliott boy.
 
too larry

too larry

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hillbill said:
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Also, announcers that tow the Company line and carry the good ole boy crap way too far. Also promoting the new hot star like Danica or the Elliott boy.
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If I had kept watching, Chase would have been who I rooted for in Cup.
 
Bareback

Bareback

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hillbill said:
NASCAR does suck but I grew up in a racing town when real cars raced. NASCAR just happens to be a part of life a small family thing. Drivers now are are second, third or fourth generation and everything is multi million dollar shit, not a driver and buds building a hot rod and racing most nights all summer. The cars all look alike and have no relationship to available models. Way too inbred and stupid conservative thinking. This year cars can hardly be spun out with all the downforce and spoiler that is like a 10” vertical board and reducing horsepower to less than a lot of factory street cars.

Also, announcers that tow the Company line and carry the good ole boy crap way too far. Also promoting the new hot star like Danica or the Elliott boy.
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Better to have side force than to have cars go airborne and end up in the stands.
 
rkymtnman

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too larry said:
The drivers are the product that is being sold, not so much the actual racing. Funny thing is F1 is going more in the NASCAR direction as far as getting the drivers out front. They have always been about racing with the best tech available, and the drivers were secondary to the teams.
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F1 is hard to watch anymore. it's Lewis or Lewis or Lewis that wins every time. Although when i go back to visit the folks in NC this summer, i'm gonna try to get a tour of the Haas facility. they live about 5 minutes from it
 
too larry

too larry

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rkymtnman said:
F1 is hard to watch anymore. it's Lewis or Lewis or Lewis that wins every time. Although when i go back to visit the folks in NC this summer, i'm gonna try to get a tour of the Haas facility. they live about 5 minutes from it
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Haas did really good right out of the gate. Rare for new teams to score points at all, and they had both cars in the points in several races the first year. Since then they have had more problems.

What preseason testing told us was this was going to be the season of the prancing ponies. And they were faster the first few races, but found ways to screw it up. The team and the drivers all had major fuckups. Hamilton & Co. finished 1-2 in the first 4 races. Would have been the 5th too is not for tire damage from an unsafe pit release.

I'm a Lewis fan, but I know what it's like to be on the other side of a streak like this. I watched Michael Schumacher win lots of races back in the day.
 
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