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[PTracy P1]

IT's NA$CARS time kids!

Get your Billy on!

[Core Shot]

Hey thanks, I was looking for a thread to say

FUCK NASCAR AND FUCK NBC!!!!

Sunday afternoon, and no Olympic coverage??
NBC had Daytona 500
MSNBC had news.
CNBC had a Ronco infomercial.

[PTracy P1]

LOL. Yep, this shit is just plain stoopid.

[Benny Profane]

I walked into a bar for lunch, and they had that shit on, like, 6 TVs, and, man, what a fucking bore. I've been in a cranky mood about the white trash I live around, and that did not help my attitude one little bit.

[team ftb]

I lurve motorsports, desert race and roadraced motorcycles and roadrace cars. You'd think I would love watching 750 hp cars battle it out. mmmm no thanks. the only way I can stomache the WWF show known as Nascar is watch the opening 10 laps and the last 25. The four hours in betweem was put to better use riding the mountain bike.

Whats sad is its only going to get worse. Its the fastest growing spectator sport supposedly. Jeez...the dumbing of america continues.

[A-wreck]

Some radio stations broadcast Nascar. Me and a buddy always listen to it on our way home from being away skiing all weekend.

If you think Nascar sucks to watch on t.v. then you should try listening to it on the radio. They really have a way of painting a very clear picture of what's going on. For instance, I heard an announcer tell us that a driver "turns left". Well, if you don't know anything about Nascar then you probably don't know that every race is just a series of left turns. They only go counter-clockwise around those tracks,(unless it's a road course). THEY ONLY TURN LEFT and the guy says "turns left" NO FUCKING SHIT BUDDY, thanks for making crystal clear what's happening.


not that I really gave a shit what was happening but........you know.......

[72Twenty]

Yeah, I flicked it on and watched the last 10 laps. Whoopee.

[Grange]

If I know a person is a NASCAR fan I'll ask him how Jeff Gordon did that weekend and say he's my favorite driver. That usually gets a rise out of them unless the fan is a woman. They always say he's gay. Or I'll tell them if I want to watch cars race I'll just sit on an overpass and watch the interstate.

[irul&ublo]

Hey thanks, I was looking for a thread to say

FUCK NASCAR AND FUCK NBC!!!!

CNBC had a Ronco infomercial.

You're just pissy because you bought a Pocket Fisherman.

[Buzzworthy]

Hehe, my wife and I watched the whole damn thing, drinkin beer the whole time.


WE LOVE NASCAR!



Really, we do, this is not a joke. But when you grow up with parents with race cars, you look at it much different.


Most people think it is boring cause they don't understand all of what goes into a race and the car,........

[team ftb]

Yes there is more to racing circle track than most people realize. Sadly the commentators don't get into educational tech for the listeners that are not race car set-up savvy. So the audience stays clueless and does not understand understeer, crossweight, rollcenter changes, etc.

That being said even as a race car driver I find 500 laps on a superspeedway pretty boring. At least at the short tracks and roadcourses driver skill is more emphasized. Nascrap is the 800 pound gorilla taking over motorsports and the glazed eyed public eats it up. Hmmmf, pass me the Rolaids, my stomache turns just seeing whats happening to Motorsports in the states.

Sorry, I'll get off the table now.

[Benny Profane]

Buzz, I actually raced cars as a kid pretty seriously. And Nascar still sucks. Most racing today sucks. I long for the old days, when Mario raced sprint cars one Sunday, jumped in a plane, flew to Europe, and raced F1. Lemans was always on a top driver's list if he had the time, and, yeah, Andretti also won the Datona 500, too. Dose were the days.

edit: But racing is much, much safer these days, which is good, of course.

[MOHSHSIHd]

Hehe, my wife and I watched the whole damn thing, drinkin beer the whole time.


WE LOVE NASCAR!



Really, we do, this is not a joke. But when you grow up with parents with race cars, you look at it much different.


Most people think it is boring cause they don't understand all of what goes into a race and the car,........

Yeah, im a fan as well, grew up around dirt racing cause my dad used to own and sponser a few cars. we always watched nascar, and went to Dover and Pocono when I was a kid. Been to Daytona 6 times (including this past weekend). I could see how it is boring if you dont know much about car setup as buzz said. A HELL OF ALOT goes into winning a race. They dont just get in a car and go for it. They spend weeks testing and adjusting their cars. Then after qualifying the crews will spend all night adjusting the car to the track. Track temp (5 degrees can make a big difference), wind direction, air temp, elevation, ect all make a difference in the car.

.5psi difference in one tire can make you win or finish 25th. On restrictor plate tracks team mates are VERY important. Without someone to draft with you can go from leader to last in a lap or two, then find a teammate, or make a deal and draft back to the front in another lap....


you need to understand it to enjoy it....so much more goes into what I just explained.


comparing it to the WWF = laughable

[Woodsy]

when you grow up with parents with race cars, you look at it much different.


Most people think it is boring cause they don't understand all of what goes into a race and the car,........

Before I could walk, I had a wrench in my hand
I was my Mama's little angel and my Daddy's second chance
He went end over end the first year he went pro
Lost part of his eyesight and he couldn't race no more

But he never lost his touch when he got underneath the hood
He knew how to make them run and he knew one day he would
See his name in victory lane and engraved on that cup
Just like all them other crazy fools with racing in their blood

He would put me on his lap when he'd drive and I'd take the wheel
He'd say "What do you think about that son? How does she feel?
You just wait till them little legs get long enough to reach the gas
Once you put her on the floor one time there ain't no turning back"

Every Saturday, he'd take me out to the garage
He'd take an empty bucket and fill it full of engine parts
He's sit me down and pour em out in front of me on the floor
I'd have to tell him what each one was and what each one was for

We'd jump into the car and go down to the race that night
He'd tell me what each driver was doing wrong and what each one did right
He could always pick the winner before they ever took a curve
#3 might have the car but 43 has got the nerve

Before I turned 18 Daddy said "Now pretty soon
You'll be old enough to drive but I'll leave it up to you
I taught you all about it, taught you everything I know
You gotta have a car to do it and you gotta work and buy your own"

The first one I bought was a Mustang #2
Nobody kept'em any longer than they kept a pair of shoes
They started showing up at every used car lot in town
A V-8 on a go-cart, easy terms, no money down

Me and Daddy and my uncle took her home and tore her down
Checked her out real good, cleaned her up and bored her out
Took out all the seats, pulled the carpet off the floor
Knocked out all the glass and welded up the doors

The first time that I raced my qualifying was a shame
I started out way in the back and came back about the same
I pulled her in the pit, couldn't look my Daddy in the eye
He said "If you quit now son, it's gonna haunt you all your life"

It ain't about the money or even being #1
You gotta know when it's all over you did the best you could've done
Knowing that it's in you and you never let it out
Is worse than blowing any engine or any wreck you'll ever have

Since then I've wrecked a bunch of cars and I've broke a bunch of bones
It's anybody's race out there and I've learned to race my own
I'd shove em in the wall and I'd hit em from behind
I'd let them know that I was there, I'd let them know that track was mine

It's been several years now since my Daddy passed away
But his picture's on my dash every time I go to race
I lost more than I won but I ain't gonna give up
Till they put me in the ground or Daddy's name's on that cup

when I grwed up w. Darrel Walltrip the first as a neighbor an NASCAR was a southern regional thing, it was alright, now that it is a worldwide clusterfuck I hate it.
they are gonna build a track on Staten Island.
Thats wrong.

And I agree, some one at NBC sports should have said, we gotta do NASCAR or the olympics,we cant do both..
ass clowns.

[Free Range Lobster]

24 rednecks chasing a fag in a circle.

[SLCKev]

Nascar is like a close Basketball game, it's only exciting in the last 5 minutes. Got to love the crashes though.

[FogHorn]

Give me F1 or Cart any Day...the way they can corner and decelerate is fantastic...

old age and treachery will defeat youth and enthusiasm

[team ftb]

you need to understand it to enjoy it....so much more goes into what I just explained

Sorry to say I understand it well(read my earlier posts). Even raced at the Fontana, Ca superspeedway. I love racing don't get me wrong. Its the Nascar television presentation that leaves me cold. 34 gents running in circles is boring if you don't understand it. Without good tech commentary that all it is...34 guys running in circles.

However, having said that, Nascrap is the fastest growing sport in the nation despite my opinion. So somebody likes it out there.