not a nascar fan at all, imop totally over rated. they treated it like coca cola died. but thats just "my" opinion.....
Nascar is a very entertaining sport, and brings tons of money to the economy, creates many job When a hockey game is sold out here it sells 19,000 tickets A Nascar event draws 150-200,000 every week! It was exciting last night, to see Bud Shoot out at newly paved Daytona track.. A single car was running 182-184 mph and drafting bumped them up to 204-206 mph!! Check it out its cool with in car cameras, and small block running 9700rpm down the back stretch.......
for each his own i guess, but i,m not a hockey fan either. for me, its quite dull to run around a track in the same direction for 50 laps or more. twice as dull to watch someone else do it. no effence ment, but i just dont get it, even as a hotrodder.
But then you get people who watch golf. GOLF! It's not the repetition of going around the track, it's the SOUND!!! Yeah!!!!
I've been a pedestrian viewer of NASCAR since I was a kid and remember the wing cars of the late 60's / early 70's. I guess when Dale died I didn't understand the significance. To me, Richard Petty is king, and I didn't realize that Dale was basically in the same league. So to many, it was just as significant as if Richard Petty had been killed.
I still think it was a harmless looking crash, the likes we've seen many times before and the drivers walked away. Almost senseless.
I've been a pedestrian viewer of NASCAR since I was a kid and remember the wing cars of the late 60's / early 70's. I guess when Dale died I didn't understand the significance. To me, Richard Petty is king, and I didn't realize that Dale was basically in the same league. So to many, it was just as significant as if Richard Petty had been killed.
I still think it was a harmless looking crash, the likes we've seen many times before and the drivers walked away. Almost senseless.
You said it there Clint... Thats exactly how I felt. Wasn't into nascar so much when #3 died, and couldn't figure what the fuss was about. But, when I watched a couple of shows that documented what Dale had done, I realized, he was the "new" King of Nascar. The crash didn't look that bad, and I think we've all seen worse, where they've gotten out and waved to the crowd.
RIP #3
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Me and good friend Mario M. were watching on that faithful day. Sadly we were both shaken and seeing the ambulance at a snail's pace leave the track, we knew something was grave.
Yep, seeing the ambulance driving out of the track slowly that day gave me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. I knew it wasn't going to be alright.
Thing is, I was never an Earnhardt fan, but remember watching him the night before in the pre-race coverage taking a media person for a tour around the track in a street car, and thinking I had been all wrong about him - he seemed like a really decent guy.
I quit watching Nascar & NHRA in my late teens. So I only know AJ Foyt, Buddy Baker, Richard Petty, David Pearson etc. Garlitts, Prudhomme, Muldowney, Tom McEwen etc. Sorry.
-- Edited by Pontiacanada on Thursday 17th of February 2011 06:48:28 AM
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Me too. The best times were when CBS sports covered NASCAR. Remember Chris Economaki?
I love his name! He was on ABC's Wide World Of Sports. He's still kicking at 90.
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In my view the two "Kings" are Dale E. and Richard Petty. But the grass roots stock car racers are Dave Marcus and Smoky Yunick. Marcus for pounding it down the track with no or little corporate sponsorship. That guy never had flashy semis or buses. Just a good stock car racer that wore "Wing-tip" shoes when he raced. Smoky Yunick was the king of cheaters. He even built a stock car 15/16 it's real size. When his car showed up at the track, you knew the tech people had their hands full.
Can't wait for this Sunday tho!
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Another Yunick improvisation was getting around the regulations specifying a maximum size for the fuel tank, by using eleven foot (three meter) coils of 2-inch (5-centimeter) diameter tubing for the fuel line to add about 5 gallons (19 liters) to the car's fuel capacity. Once, NASCAR officials came up with a list of nine items for Yunick to fix before the car would be allowed on the track. The suspicious NASCAR officials had removed the tank for inspection. Yunick started the car with no gas tank and said "Better make it ten,"[2] and drove it back to the pits. He used a basketball in the fuel tank which could be inflated when the car's fuel capacity was checked and deflated for the race.
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I too remember watching that faithfull day, but as watching racing today, especially the bud shootout and the duals today, thats not racing and nascar is hurting because of it, on mrn last week for the shootout the owner of the bristol speedway was on air trying to sell tickets to the 2 bristol races this year, a few years ago there was thousands of the waiting list, and I gurantee this weekend will not be a sell out as well. Throw the templates in the garbage can, downsize how many employees allowed to work for a team, prize money is all out wack like the rest of the professional sports, you wanna race go to the nearest gm, ford, toyota, dodge delaerships and buy a mustang, camaro, charger etc and build a car and race what u brong, at least we'll know whats coming down the track. Enforce the horsepower and safety issues and bring back racing that we should see, Thats my dam 2 cents and if I see on sunday what I seen in the last 2 races I'll be turning the dam TV off.---------number 3 forever
hearing jr wrecked in practise today, will start from the rear instead of pole.
go #29 harvick!
He crashed because of that new style of racing. They push their team mates around the track in order to gain speed, then they cannot see or react to what happens up ahead. It should be every man for himself.
These new rules, gonna kill more drivers, silly to make it impossible to muscle a pass, cars can't run exactly the same in pairs of 2 leapfrogging every 4-5 laps. get rid of the ristrictor plate and then re-gear them to keep them under 210mph. At least a guy could put his foot into it to pass and not have to get out of line so not to blow the motor. Entertainment makes money, more crashes= more money I guess.
Congrats to Trevor Bayne for winning the Daytona 500 at the young age of 20 years. The 3rd lap was a tribute to Dale in honor of his life and the number 3
Did you notice Trevor was driving car #21 ......and that 2+1 = 3 (freaky ??)
