de7,
Yep, I've seen lots more exciting RACING at NHIS than I've seen at your beloved Bristol lately. Lots of demolition derby, WWE (or WWF or whatever they're calling it now) at that venue, but not a whole lot of real racing where the driver has to be a driver and his crew has to know how to set up a race car.
You do know that there is more banking at NHIS than at Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and the same as Martinsville, do you not?
I guess that what I consider constitutes good racing is different than what most of today's fans have been led to believe. Good racing is when a driver has to work to make a pass, when he has been given a car which can run well anywhere on the track and knows how to pass another car without resorting to dirty tactics such as the now popular "bump and run".
I grew up with racing where the fast cars always started at the back of the pack and still could win a race on a flat track within 25 laps, where accidental contact was just that, but where "bump and run" got a driver sent to the rear of the field. Continued use of that little trick would see him sitting out a race or two, and if he still hadn't learned how to make a clean pass, he was asked to find another track to race at.
In short, real, honest racing; not some show where you start the fast cars in the front and then complain that the slower cars are blocking them, that they can't pass, that it's OK to push other cars out of the way, that there's only one groove or not enough banking.
Then again, I really haven't seen much real racing in Nextel Cup of late. Lots of glitz and glitter, PR flak, different color schemes on the cars in order to sell more toys to the "true believers", all kinds of contrived contraversy to keep those "true believers" believing in their glorious gladiators and false gods so they'll continue to worship at the altar of NASCAR every Sunday and leave their hard earned dollars; but I really don't think I've seen all that much real racing of late. That may happen on occasion, but only by accident.
No bashing from me, my friend, just some simple facts of racing life.
Your jealousy of the fact that a track here in the north can sell out two racing dates to over 100,000 fans every year while some of those in the south cannot bring in 2/3rds of that number for even one show is showing itself, big time, my friend. Matter of fact, its dripping all over the message board.
By the way, hope you had a good weekend at your cabin in the mountains. I know that I'd much rather spend some quality time in the solitude of nature than a weekend surrounded by a bunch of drunk, screaming "adults" who seem to think that making a complete fool of themselves in front of a large crowd of other drunk, screaming "adults", is so much fun.
Been there, done that, all too many times, too many years ago; when I was young and foolish. Spent several small fortunes being one of the clowns in the circus. No need to try and continue that sort of behavior my age.
I'm usually am able to make a fool of myself in some manner anyhow; and that's just getting out of bed in the morning.
