Nascar Fans Unite!!!!!

[narsus]

Frog I see no reason why you should even be posting in this thread other than to be an prettythang. move along

[jjdude]

a reasonable definition of sports:

'Sport'- an activity with a significant physical component in which two or more participants engage for the purpose of competitively evaluating their personal performance."


I don't think vehicle racing really fits.. a hobby, yes, a great time?, could be, lots of folks enjoy it.

I'm guessing you havent done any kind of racing, cuz if you did youd know theres quite a bit of physical and mental endurance involved in racing. and racing is one of mans earliest sports, so dont attempt to say it isnt a sport

[Mini D]

I think this thread's timing is bad if you really want to drum up nascar support.  All the fans are out burning dixie chicks albums about now.

MiniD

[rpm]

All of you Yankees whine about NASCAR. Guess it's too painfull that The South has developed a genuinely popular pasttime into the SPORT that it is today. Anyone that says racers are not athletes has never raced at that level. Those are not Luxury Cars they are riding in, they are 800 Horsepower on the razors edge of out of control. And NO we don't just watch to see the wrecks. We watch to see that fender smashing pass coming out of Turn 4 heading for the checkers.
 
Favorite driver?
 Mark Martin, but Kurt Busch, Rusty Wallace and Ryan Newman are close runners up.

Favorite track?
 Texas! Used to be Talladega but restrictor plates have ruined it.

Favorite Race?
 Daytona,  Texas a close 2nd

Least favorite driver?
 With the passing of Dale Earnhardt that crown has to go to Jeff Gordon. Jimmy Spencer and Robby Gordon receive Miss Congeniality

Least favorite track?
 Richmond. Short Track racing is just not my thing.

[airbumba]

fav driver : that guy with the southern accent...hehe.

Actually, Tony Stewart, track: anything without restrictor plates. I like the bump and grind in the short tracks, like Bristol.

Best commercial: UPS's race the truck.

bumba

[Airhead]

'necks.

[Mark Luper]

Airhead,
I really don't understand the association of NASCAR racing (or Sprint car racing either for that matter) with being a "redneck". There are a lot of people in the US that think the same way.

Racing in any form takes talent and good equipment (meaning money). Oval racing is definately a skill aquired through hours of racing, not just picked up on the fly. Ask some F1 drivers that have tried it and failed.

I appreciate skill in racing regardless of venue. I also don't consider myself a "redneck" .  I do enjoy NASCAR and Sprint car racing because the outcome is never inevitable and most often there are a lot of lead changes. To me that makes for interesting racing.

Actually I can't think of anything more "redneck" than dashing around on dirt roads, through forests and across deserts like  they do in Ralleys .

[Saurdaukar]

Not a huge NASCAR fan... but jeez, you guys claiming its not a sport based on lack of physical activity should really get out on the track once or twice.  Itd be a big (and fun) wake up call.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Mark Luper
Airhead,


I appreciate skill in racing regardless of venue. I also don't consider myself a "redneck" .  

Mark, that's because you are from Fort Worth, so you fit in with the other 'necks. Really, come to California- I guarantee you'll feel like a redneck.

Anyway what has made NASCAR great is the emergence of a driver who doesn't speak with a twang, isn't married to his cousin and is actually a REAL athelete- the greatest NASCAR driver of all time, number 24- Jeff Gordon.

If not for Jeff Gordon attracting a more civilized and better washed crowd to NASCAR, drivers like Terry Labonte would still be racing for hundred dollar purses and supplementing their incomes by running 'shine.

[snocone]

i mean no offense, and i am a white male southerner, but...

i have a few comments on "redneck circle burnin"

not a redneck event? please explaine the abundance of rebel flags proudly waving at all nascar events

the decal on your rear window (across from the one of the rebel flag) that reads "in memory of #3". statues, grave yards, plaques, and MEMORIALS are dedicated in memory of people, not the window of an '83 chevy truck.

do any of you have to live next to a nascar wanna be who races at the local dirt track every saturday night? always revvin that hunk of junk up at ungodly hours, washin the mud off of it and turning the street into a swamp, and so on...

I didn't make the sky blue, I'm just tellin you what color it is, so don't get mad at me.

[Bodhi]

Nascar Racing is the epithone of waste!

[Creamo]

Your not a true 'Southerner' snocone, your from Texas. Thats kinda like being a northern mexican.

[rpm]

Originally posted by Creamo
Your not a true 'Southerner' snocone, your from Texas. Thats kinda like being a northern mexican.

Easy there Creamo, he's just guilty of being a City Boy. The Yankees illegally annexed us or we would still be an Independent Republic...TYVM

[rpm]

Originally posted by snocone
not a redneck event? please explaine the abundance of rebel flags proudly waving at all nascar events

Funny, I don't recall seeing an abundance of Rebel Flags at New Hampshire, Dover, Pocono, Chicagoland, Michigan, California, Phoenix, Sears Point, Watkins Glen...need I go on? With MOST of the races taking place in the Southeast (Heart Of Dixie) ya think THAT might be the reason you see that flag at those races? You are simply acting like a bigot.

[-tronski-]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
IT HURTS!!!

NOOOOO!!!!

MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!

Round and round she goes, where she stops no-body knows.....




Don't be afraid of some real racing




 Tronsky