A NASCAR Reality Show Idea

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So, my friends and I were talking and he brought up a good book on IndyCar called Inside Racing. It's a book that follows a CART team over the '95 season. This somehow lead us to talking about NASCAR doing a reality show and which team they should follow for one season.

My picks are as follow:

Kyle Busch. Kyle Busch has that fire cracker personality and you just don't know what's going to happen with him. He could have a bad race and just explode in front of the camera or on the radio to his crew chief. Plus, he does have the racing talent....in Nationwide and Trucks....to get people excited when he wins on the TV series.

If the TV series were to follow a racing team around for one season and document what they do each weekend, which team do you think they should follow?
 
Something like this happened with with Braun Racing like 10 years ago.. I thought it was interesting but I feel like it was more of a TrimSpa™ commercial and the team's quality left something to be desired... I think JGR's MX program may have been featured on the show as well.
 
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DWDawg said:
No not another reality show, I can see it now; As The Wheels Turn starring Danica Patrick
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Nah, Danica Patrick isn't that animated.

Another idea, they could follow Chad Knaus around. While Jimmie Johnson wouldn't be animated enough, if you've ever heard an angry or frustrated Chad Knaus on the radio, you know he'd be perfect for this kind of show.
 
Aside from getting to see some hawt wives and girlfriends lounge around the pool I can't see any redeeming qualities. And Brian ain't ever going to let them show the wives around the pool, Beaver hunters might as well watch June Cleaver.

The TV time would be dominated by the likes of Michael Waltrip, Larry Mac, Jeff Hammond, and DW. I was a big DW fan but I am not for some corny story on how he won a title every week.

It would be a toned down Green Acres, a lifestyles of the rich rednecks with MW being as credible as Arnold the pig. It would be a Father knows best parody tool as well, and I do mean tool. The plot would be that the world is crazy and does many pointless unjust things. But Farther France with his omniscient wisdom has spared us all. And granny France is the best damn book keeper there ever was and ever will be, she deserves to be in the Nascar HoF.
And Brian the control freak would demand such a script.

Again I could put up with it if the scantily clad wives could hang out around the pool, and Tony the molester could play his pinching hugging games, but the good stuff will not be allowed, just more propaganda
 
DUN24 said:
Something like this happened with with Braun Racing like 10 years ago.. I thought it was interesting but I feel like it was more of a TrimSpa™ commercial and the team's quality left something to be desired... I think JGR's MX program may have been featured on the show as well.
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Armando Fitz lol. It seemed like that team never did make a race, they would always come back the next week telling how they didn't qualify lol.
 
I don't think any major Cup team would want to do it. It would be too distracting. They would rather focus on making sure their team is competitive instead of having to worry about a tv show. Maybe a cash-strapped Nationwide or Truck team would be willing to do it.
 
Didn't work the times it's been tried and wouldn't work now. Nobody watched them but the drivers fans and kybu's 11 fans wouldn't hold the ratings.
 
racer8 said:
I don't think Mars candy or Interstate would allow it. It would make them look bad having a spoiled 4 year old foul mouthed little brat flipping out in front of the camera.
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I doubt that most any of the corporate sponsors want their drivers warts on display.
 
racer8 said:
I don't think Mars candy or Interstate would allow it. It would make them look bad having a spoiled 4 year old foul mouthed little brat flipping out in front of the camera.
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lol Interstate clearly have standards. All douche bag spokes people must meet their strict height requirements.
 
FenderBumper said:
There's the show right there. No drivers. Just their hot wives and the drivers credit cards. We'll call it "The Real Hotel...Suite Wives of Ovaldom."
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There was a joke that went around the year after Michael Andretti raced Formula 1: The most dangerous thing he did that year was let his wife loose in Monte Carlo with his AmEx credit card.
 
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