Getting in the grandstands at Dover is like going through airport security

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Is this now the norm at cup tracks? I've never experienced it before. Going in this morning at Dover for K&N Pro Series qualifying (which they let you in late so you'd miss the first few cars...) and they are using metal detector wands on everyone going in. I've never heard of that happening at any race. It truly felt like going through airport security (except that all of the staff had no idea how to use their equipment...).
 
High security is normal in any event where hundreds+ people are going to be packed into one place for hours. Would you rather it be lax and them just let any schmuck in?
 
They don't do that at Bristol or Martinsville. They simply look in your bags and coolers that you bring into the track. So no, it's not the norm at all NASCAR races. It probably needs to be though.

It is like that though for our three major sports venues in Pittsburgh though. I'm not sure about in other cities.
 
At Loudon in July they searched bags and containers if you had them but otherwise it was an easy walk in.
 
I'm sure it varies from track to track. But after the Boston bombing, many venues have increased security and screening. All NFL stadiums have banned backpacks of any kind. Many college stadiums are doing the same thing. Every time one of those nut cases goes to blowing up people or crashing planes, security will be tighter and tighter. Welcome to the new norm.
 
Should be over on the what's wrong with nascar thread, but that is one of the reasons for attendance at the tracks being lower. People are afraid of nuts blowing up devices around large crowds.
 
StandOnIt said:
Should be over on the what's wrong with nascar thread, but that is one of the reasons for attendance at the tracks being lower. People are afraid of nuts blowing up devices around large crowds.
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I don't believe this for a minute.

If this were true, airlines and public transportation would be in bankruptcy.
 
StandOnIt said:
Should be over on the what's wrong with nascar thread, but that is one of the reasons for attendance at the tracks being lower. People are afraid of nuts blowing up devices around large crowds.
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People who are afraid of going anywhere because of 9/11 or Boston are the nuts.
 
Smoke14 said:
I don't believe this for a minute.

If this were true, airlines and public transportation would be in bankruptcy.
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I don't know if people are afraid to attend large events or not but airlines and public transportation are a necessity.
 
Joke no. just because YOU have never heard it doesn't make it so. Many people don't want to wrestle the crowd, some others consider it an invasion of privacy to be searched, and some don't want to deal with putting their family in danger in large crowds..Do you go to slumtown at two in the morning on a Saturday night with your family in the car and get out and walk around?
 
Smoke14 said:
Racing is more of a necessity than airlines and public transportation.
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Definitely can agree with that! Just pretty surprised, never had any track check anything more than my bags at a race before, Including this year at Daytona and Richmond.
 
toledo47 said:
Definitely can agree with that! Just pretty surprised, never had any track check anything more than my bags at a race before, Including this year at Daytona and Richmond.
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I've never experienced that at the track but when we went to the Pirate game last week they did the and and metal detector thing. It really wasn't to big a deal.
 
Earlier this year when my buddy and myself went to the Nascar race in California he had forgot that he had a very small pocket knife in his pocket and when he went through the security they wouldn't let him in and he had to take it back to the car. They probably made the right decision though because he is a crazy MF.:)
 
Back in the day it was acceptable to bring your deer rifle into the stands.

How times have changed.
 
There are probably a lot of tracks that doesn't do it, but that doesn't mean that it's not a good idea.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I can see The Podium from this thread.
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There's no need for the Podium on this one. It's a serious, mature discussion that we all should be able to take part in :)

So, I've never been to a Nascar race but am hoping to next year and although New Hampshire is closest, I'm seriously considering driving to Darlington and watching it all unfold. That, or Richmond.
 
StandOnIt said:
Should be over on the what's wrong with nascar thread, but that is one of the reasons for attendance at the tracks being lower. People are afraid of nuts blowing up devices around large crowds.
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If a terrorist made an attack at a NASCAR venue the war would be over in a matter of weeks and the word "terrorism" would be a thing of the past.
 
Man I was at this weekends Dover race last year & I don't remember that happening. I do remember that a guy was out there selling the coolers that look like the front end of a NASCAR racecar but security wouldn't let anyone take them up into the grandstands. Naturally I was thinkin why is this guy here if we can't utilize the coolers, maybe he didn't know that they were not allowed inside the track... I dunno, maybe some people who left early remembered and got one on the way out...
 
#17D500winner said:
There's no need for the Podium on this one. It's a serious, mature discussion that we all should be able to take part in :)

So, I've never been to a Nascar race but am hoping to next year and although New Hampshire is closest, I'm seriously considering driving to Darlington and watching it all unfold. That, or Richmond.
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The gun comments have no place here.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
When I made political comments, I explicitly asked the Admins to move my comments, and the political comments I was responding to, to the podium where they belonged. Thanks anyways.
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Just post your political comments there to begin with and save us and the administrator unneeded attention. This is a NASCAR forum. You guys have your playground set aside for all of that political BS.
 
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