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NASCAR on the skids
Every December since the Reagan Administration, the denizens of stock car racing have gathered in New York’s elegant Waldorf-Astoria to congratulate each other on another successful year amid a slew of parties.
Yet this year, the mood at NASCAR’s end-of-the-year ceremony was so grim that, if one had to compare it to a type of car, the only fitting example fitting would be a hearse.
During the Sprint Cup Series Awards ceremony, winners were more intent on urging support for a Big Three bailout than thanking those who got them to the podium. A Ford party was dropped. ESPN.com noted the annual parade of stock car drivers gunning around Times Square was canceled — too pricey.
NASCAR on the skids
Every December since the Reagan Administration, the denizens of stock car racing have gathered in New York’s elegant Waldorf-Astoria to congratulate each other on another successful year amid a slew of parties.
Yet this year, the mood at NASCAR’s end-of-the-year ceremony was so grim that, if one had to compare it to a type of car, the only fitting example fitting would be a hearse.
During the Sprint Cup Series Awards ceremony, winners were more intent on urging support for a Big Three bailout than thanking those who got them to the podium. A Ford party was dropped. ESPN.com noted the annual parade of stock car drivers gunning around Times Square was canceled — too pricey.
