Talledega and Projectiles

  • Thread starter Thread starter N2racin44
  • Start date Start date
N

N2racin44

Guest
Hmm....so how do I go about discussing something that seemed to rile so many of you when I broached the subject a few years ago. Dega was proclaimed the capital of Junior Nation by many yet it appears should any of Junior's rivals win the race you had better take cover because things will be flying. While the problem exists at a few other tracks on the circuit the issue is most prevalent at NASCAR's biggest track. So what do you do? I have a few suggestions. Although it might piss quite a few off make sure that vendors selling liquids pour them into a paper cup. Do not like it dega fan? Tough. Deal with it. No more bottled or canned beverages allowed from the outside either. The other option would be to install netting like baseball stadiums have. For the most part nowadays the netting does not impede your view and it would only need to stretch halfway up the stands.
 
I saw one can of beer land on the inside lane, over 4 lanes of traffic, the fence, the running track and several rows of seats. That guy needs to get signed up for a baseball team. That's one helluva arm.
Shame it belongs to such a poser *****. I was screaming when that engine blew bringing out the second to last caution, but that's racing. Get over it.
 
Professur said:
I saw one can of beer land on the inside lane, over 4 lanes of traffic, the fence, the running track and several rows of seats. That guy needs to get signed up for a baseball team. That's one helluva arm.
Shame it belongs to such a poser *****. I was screaming when that engine blew bringing out the second to last caution, but that's racing. Get over it.
Click to expand...

I'm mad NASCAR waited so long to throw the yellow, essentially giving Gordon the win.
 
Yeah, makes one think NASCAR owns stock in a certain paint company doesn't it?
One week all I see is "NASCAR throws too many yellows" And now all I see is they "wait too long to throw the yellow"... I guess they will always be wrong is someones eyes.
Betsy:rolleyes:
 
Darndest thing is when it's the same person crying both ways. Makes you think maybe it's not the cautions but the driver...
 
With those dummies throwing beer cans onto the track, the national media has been ripping the fans and NASCAR all morning. All NASCAR can do is ask tracks to ban coolers at those that still allow them. Seems the term "redneck" has been used more today since Jeff Foxworthy's last CD.
 
Listening to local sports talk it was said that Alabama college football fan is just as rowdy too throwing bricks through past football coaches windows when the team loses.
 
N2racin44 said:
Listening to local sports talk it was said that Alabama college football fan is just as rowdy too throwing bricks through past football coaches windows when the team loses.
Click to expand...

This is a bull**** rumor started by Bill Curry when he left Alabama. He even admits he made it up.
 
Junior used to say it didn't bother him because his main sponsor sells more product that way. But, he has since spoken out on it in a good way.

Some people think that buying a ticket gives them the right to do whatever stupid thing they want to do. It doesn't. Putting another person's safety at risk in the name of being a good fan is pretty ignorant.
 
I've seen this happen time and time again, both on the local scene and at the big tracks. I'm sorry to say that the only way to help prevent much of that is to stop allowing alcohol in the track. Of course, that won't totally stop it because I've seen complete sober people throw their soft drinks onto the track as well. The sad fact is that there will always be people who can't control themselves and don't want to anyway. For those people aren't race fans, but fanatics of certain drivers. It would be totally fine with them if their favorite was given each and every race and led every lap. It would give them such an ego boost. But when their driver doesn't win, it's always because it was someone else's fault.
 
We also have to remember that Jeff Gordon was getting booed before Junior started Cup racing.

I don't know that all people throwing things are necessarily Junior fans.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
We also have to remember that Jeff Gordon was getting booed before Junior started Cup racing.

I don't know that all people throwing things are necessarily Junior fans.
Click to expand...

Good point TRL

It does seem like it is mostly Jr fans who are doing this, that isn't nessessarily the case. I didn't mean to imply that it was the case, if I did.
 
I think if you are caught throwing anything onto the track, you should be expelled from any Nascar sanctioned event for life. The fans in the stands need to help police that kind of nonsense also. If you see it then tell security and get those people tossed. As far as not being able to carry canned beverages in and replaced by paper cups as was posted earlier, I don't agree with that simply because as a law abiding citizen I get penalized for some idiot's childish actions. The driver you root against wins the race fair and square so you throw things at him? Grow up!!! If it ever happens around me I'll wrestle the bafoon to the ground and stand on him/her until security shows up. I have absolutely no tolerance for that ridiculous behavior.
 
Maybe it would hit the people who threw it. Then they would sue Gordan....

Im not bashing i could actually see that happening.
 
Tkay, there are many things that are outlawed because of a few idiots. It really doesn't matter to me any more because I probably won't be back to any track to watch the racing anymore. Where I go to watch races, there is a drinking section and that's the only place that alcohol is allowed, and it must be purchased there. Still, we have idiots who don't drink and still throw things on the track. However, they are pointed out and are escorted from the track. And I must say that each and every time that has happened, it's been females that were the guilty party. So I'd say that it's the men who throw the beer cans while it's the ladies who throw orange juice. :)
 
I don't like the idea of not being able to take a can or bottle into the track. The price the track charges is a rip off. I get a 6 pk of dt coke in bottles at wal-mart for less than $3.00. At the track they want like $3.00 each. I don't throw stuff on the track and thousands of others don't either, so why punish everyone for the sins of a few?
 
Drivers chastise fans throwing trash on track

TALLADEGA, Ala. - NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers are universally condemning the growing practice of fans throwing beer cans on the track to express their displeasure with a race's outcome.

After Jeff Gordon's 76th career win at Phoenix International Raceway led to a rain of debris from the stands, Dale Earnhardt Jr. suggested fans use something softer, like toilet paper. That isn't happening yet, though, at least two any large degree.

After Gordon won once more Sunday in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway, notching career victory No. 77 and passing the late Dale Earnhardt for sixth on the all-time win list, the driver once more was pelted with debris. Others were also the target of the fallout.

"You hate for somebody to get hurt," Gordon said of the practice of throwing cans. "We're going to paint the car anyway. There are dents in it. But you think about people sitting on the front row getting hit with those cans.

"It's really for the fans protection and the NASCAR officials standing down there. I don't know what you do. If you get enough people there to watch it, but there are so many of them I don't know what you do to stop it. It is dangerous."

Gordon added that NASCAR and drivers have discussed the problem.

"If you can't bring cans in the stands anymore, then they'd do it to themselves, maybe they'd use paper cups. Maybe that's the next step."

Gordon wasn't the only driver questioning the practice. Kasey Kahne said he was thankful to be behind the items being thrown onto the track. Jimmie Johnson, Gordon's teammate, termed it "terrible."

Earnhardt Jr. weighed in on the issue once more, saying that it doesn't seem to be something that can be controlled.

"When you see the idiots throw stuff on the track at Talladega, you wonder what in the world some fans are thinking," he said.

Johnson went a step further.

"They're going to hurt somebody," he said. "I just can't believe that people who love this sport would take the chance to hurt a kid, hurt another person. I'm sure there were cans that didn't make it to the track that landed in the stands ...

"On one level, that's disrespectful, and the other side of it, throwing them at the race cars and damaging our race cars, that's not a way to show that you support our sport and our racing."
 
tkj24 said:
I don't like the idea of not being able to take a can or bottle into the track. The price the track charges is a rip off. I get a 6 pk of dt coke in bottles at wal-mart for less than $3.00. At the track they want like $3.00 each. I don't throw stuff on the track and thousands of others don't either, so why punish everyone for the sins of a few?
Click to expand...


Because thats the way it is in this country TKJ, as sad as it is.
 
I've been thinking about this and you know when Lil'E wins it makes my want to hurl...my lunch... ;)
So maybe they ate the cans and then hurled them...or maybe I've been thinking too much...:P
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom