F****** nailed it. I can appreciate Cleetus' is enthusiasm, and he deserves his following. But that shouldn't be what allows him to enter an event like this. I feel like it delegitimizes NASCAR racing as an elite Motorsport in America, or frankly, legitimate one.
There's already been years of complaints about the broadcast on the playoff system and the illegitimacy of NASCAR as a pure motorsport. This kind of stuff does no favors. This may be a sucky thing to say, but he also acts like a cartoon character.
Now if we're talking other professional race car drivers who have had success in other Series without having experience? I think that's cool and I think that's good for the sport. At the end of the day Motorsports are niche, and NASCAR is just never going to pull the general sports fan like the NFL, or the NBA. And that's perfectly okay.
