I think the real issue with NASCAR is that it's so popular and such an industry, such a phenomenon in the US that it sort of crowds all other forms of motorsport out*.
It's still racing though, so I can't hate it.
*Except indoor motocross, which attracts exactly the same crowd as NASCAR, oddly enough. Give'ER!
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I like drag racing, but only when it's in the spirit of "how fast can we go?" rather than "how much money will this make for us, the corporate sponsors?". I think that's a lot of what boggles my mind about nascar, three million per team?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_a ... _stock_car
I realize that the way they've done it, it employs a lot of people with decent salaries and most of the racers aren't making mega-bucks. Still though, that seems like a lot of cash for a car that drives in circles.
I won't argue that there are much sillier sports or entertainment that cost a lot more, but it just feels like it's a whole lot of window dressing for something that isn't that interesting. Not to sound like too much of an elitist prick here; I can see how simple sport with lots of meaningless flash is attractive to people with a wal-mart IQ and brains soaked with miller lite. Ok, that really makes me sound like an elitist prick, maybe I am, fuck it.
I love seeing a good race, and I think it's fantastic that racers and mechanics alike can do so for a living rather than suffering in a cubicle. That said, a thousand hours of oval track nascar yawn pales in comparison to a fifteen second clip of seeing privateer motorcycle racers hit the corkscrew at Laguna Seca.
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I realize that the way they've done it, it employs a lot of people with decent salaries and most of the racers aren't making mega-bucks. Still though, that seems like a lot of cash for a car that drives in circles.
I won't argue that there are much sillier sports or entertainment that cost a lot more, but it just feels like it's a whole lot of window dressing for something that isn't that interesting. Not to sound like too much of an elitist prick here; I can see how simple sport with lots of meaningless flash is attractive to people with a wal-mart IQ and brains soaked with miller lite. Ok, that really makes me sound like an elitist prick, maybe I am, fuck it.
I love seeing a good race, and I think it's fantastic that racers and mechanics alike can do so for a living rather than suffering in a cubicle. That said, a thousand hours of oval track nascar yawn pales in comparison to a fifteen second clip of seeing privateer motorcycle racers hit the corkscrew at Laguna Seca.
They swore it was the correct one, but swearing doesn't make a sprocket fit where it doesn't want to. --WeAintFoundShit