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- AmnesiacJack, on 11/15/2008, -3/+12Hence why most fans that I know are getting tired of the sport, its turned into the softest most gentle spoken sport in America, hell even cheerleaders talk more ***** than NASCAR drivers. The only two that really speak up are Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch and NASCAR cracks down them as often as they can.
I'm glad NASCAR is still growing and I hope it continues to do well, I'll keep watching it every Sunday with my friends for the foreseeable future but we are really wondering just what the sport will turn into when every bump and every word has to be watched and sugar coated. - Randude, on 11/15/2008, -0/+7The article has a point, but I don't hear people complaining that football isn't rough enough because of the money. The drivers got into the sport because they love the competition. I have to wonder if Nascar's efforts to make the cars more similar is what is really hurting the sport? Regardless, I'm looking forward to watching this Sunday.
- Pake, on 11/15/2008, -0/+6Next time when you drive for 4 hours, make sure it 90F outside and turn on your heat to max until the car reaches about 140F. Make sure you're wearing 2 layers of clothing as well that, with the other clothing being a thick sweater and pants and then see how well you concentrate just going 60 mph.
- FrankTheTank17, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5Not to mention within inches of cars on every side of you. People who don't think NASCAR drivers are just ignorant...
- WoundedCow, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5I've met Jimmy Johnson, and he's a very personable guy. He does his job every week and makes a boatload of money for doing it very well. Like every good working person, I respect that. (Plus, he's the driver I picked pre-season to win it all and stand to make a tidy sum tomorrow.)
What NASCAR has done is made racing boring. "Every car is the same..." That's a bunch of bull-hooey. The reason Pettys, Yarboroughs, Waltrips, Allisons, Buddy Baker and Earnharts made NASCAR great was because they and their engineers found better ways to go faster than the other guy. I could give a rip if "its about the driver's ability." I want to see Chevy come up with an idea that makes the rest of the field look like chumps. I want Ford to come up with an innovation to make the others look like slugs crawling on snot. I want Mopar to develop a part that puts everyone else on the second level.
If NASCAR really wanted to improve the sport, they'd allow teams owners to create any car they want based within 1% of base model tolerances of the manufacturer's road-ready model. If they want to keep speed downs, engines of no more than six cylinders with no turbocharges. Let them use a rear wing and make everything "equal" by having everyone run the same tires.
That'd get auto manufacturers building more powerful "standard engines," that get better fuel mileage.
As for the sponsors, they want their name mentioned and seen. The reason Lowe's continues to sponsor Jimmy's car is because Jimmy wins. They see him as a spokesperson on the face of it, but dollars to donuts, if he cut loose and said something like "Carl Edwards races like a girl in sugar-coated panties" they'd be all over him. That's why you see the love fest during interviews. Sponsors want the public to see their "spokesperson" as a good guy who people'll like.
What they miss seeing however, is Dale Jr.'s tirade last year that NASCAR fined him for, did not lose Bud the sale of one beer! Bud was mentioned a ton of times as every sports reporter in the country played and replayed DJ's spit and sputter of whatever it was that's pissed him off. Ask yourself, did you buy less Bud after Dale Jr. said dirty words? Or do you remember that Dale use to drive the No. 8 Bud car? Did it matter?
I'd tell the sponsors that they should loosen their control and let men be men...and men curse, and men get pissed off and men driving fast cars are emotional and want to win by not only having the fastest car, but also by being the better driver. And people come to watch NASCAR because men driving fast cars wreck each other.
Let them race. - FrankTheTank17, on 11/15/2008, -0/+420n
Where n=Number of people burying you. - calgone, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately, the cars got so fast that they became deadly. That's what started all of this was NASCAR implementing restrictor plates at Talladega and Daytona...it's been a slope of similiar car changes since then
- TJENN, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Exactly! Another thing to remember is try driving a car on a banked surface ranging from 8-24 degrees while gong 150MPH+ with cars just inches from you all around. Drivers have to have good upper body strength to keep control of the steering wheel.
- aurorous, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2If Toyota wasn't already part of the sport we'd be reading articles about how NASCAR can survive the demise of the big 3. If they hadn't let them in 2 years they would be rushing to bring them and possibly other foreign manufacturer's into the sport right now as they watch GM and Ford crash and burn.
one way or another we will lose at least 1 of the major American automakers either to bankruptcy or through a merger/buyout in the next year, and whoever is left isn't likely to make racing a priority for a few years. Things are so bad even Toyota's business is down but they're healthy and they're not going away. You can't say that about any other NASCAR manufacturers. - Axtell2k5, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1So they're upset that today's racers make a lot of money is what this article comes down to. So instead of the racers being total and complete ***** to one another, they respect one another and race to win.
Waltrip should just shut the ***** up and be happy he's been able to make a fortune racing cars. He's a grumpy old ***** who's mad that he came along about 10 years too early.
Whining *****. - TJENN, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1jstem1994, not all Nascar drivers and Nascar fans are what you call "rednecks". Do you realize that half the drivers do not listen to country music? I don't listen to country music either. My tastes are in classic rock. I don't drink beer nor do I have a pot belly and dress in overalls.
So, before you speak....think. - Remelox, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Wow, one little Simpsons reference and you get buried like crazy.
- michaelamyers, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1NASCRAP ceased being a sport a few years ago. Now, it's just an exhibition... drivers going through the motions.
Why not just have NASCRAP do something like the IROC (RIP) series & give each team a car built by & maintained by NASCRAP so ALL the drivers will have an equal chance of winning based on driving skill?!?
I feel bad for those single car teams that keep going out of business because they can't find a sponsor that has $40 million to invest in a team that might not even MAKE the race.
TV coverage is a joke! How many networks does it take to broadcast 36 cup races?
Answer: Fox, NBC, TBS, ESPN1&2, ABC and when America's Funniest Home Videos or a women's table tennis game is on, probably Speed.
LISTEN UP RETARDS!!! One network is enough. Give Fox the rights and let DW run the show.
I turn the sound down every time Rusty & that basketball player start trying to call a race. Jarrett isn't much better either, quite a corporate whore. - jsavage58, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1The engineering tricks from the teams, the actual visual difference between cars, not the POS COT, the rough around the edges, good ol' boy's, rough and banging and etc etc. They cleaned it up, refined it and spit out a neutered version of what used to be good competition (not sport, competition. )
The NFL is well on it's way to doing the same thing, all with the idea of pleasing sponsors. But the backside of that, if you are chasing away the "real" fans, who will in turn, stop seeing the advertising.
Shame.. NASCAR used to be fun, with lot's of characters, same with the NFL. - webhosting1, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1to be fair nascar is a tad boring, but i do admire the amount of work that goes in to making those cars... truely amazing. not as good as f1 tho ;)
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http://www.reacthosting.com - kelmaster1, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2Agreed. wtf is this doing on digg.
- sktbrdngp3, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Agreed. I'll just stick to my short tracks. 10,000 times more fun.
- FrankTheTank17, on 11/15/2008, -1/+1I used to watch a lot of NASCAR and it's only going downhill. It's really a shame that there's no passion to the sport anymore. It pretty much died with Dale Earnhardt (RIP) but it really died with the CoT and especially when they allowed Toyota to race in it. There were actually a lot of fans that stopped watching NASCAR once they allowed Toyota to race.
- truck87bp, on 11/15/2008, -1/+1Is this the last year for NASCAR?
No Bailout of the big three could end NASCAR. President Bush must hate NASCAR. - inyearstocome, on 11/15/2008, -1/+1thanks for illustrating the point of my main post :-p
- vifasa, on 05/28/2009, -0/+0I prefer to look at Formula 1.
http://bra-barnklader.se - jstem1994, on 11/17/2008, -1/+1Sorry to rally up the rednecks here, but sitting in a hot car & surrounded by other rednecks going fast STILL does not make him an athlete. I admit the reflexes needed are quite great, but not alot of athletics going on.
"People who don't think NASCAR drivers are just ignorant..." -that statement kinda says it all. (you left out a word or two me thinks. Pass the Bud. Yee haw.) - FMVorenkamp, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0Shut up.
- pinojunior, on 01/14/2009, -0/+0hope not
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http://tipstravellings.blogspot.com - FMVorenkamp, on 11/15/2008, -1/+0AWESOME I BOUGHT 50 PAIRS
- partrow, on 11/15/2008, -2/+1So it is "rivalries" that are the attraction to this entertainment?
- FMVorenkamp, on 11/15/2008, -3/+0That was stupid.
Go try on some wrap around sunglasses and watch some more nascar instead of furthering your unique art of bad algebraic humor. - ironhide, on 11/15/2008, -6/+3All the evidence I need to prove that the Freepers have invaded Digg.
- HappyScrappy, on 11/15/2008, -10/+5One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
- jstem1994, on 11/15/2008, -6/+1I had a friend recently start a debate that NASCAR drivers are athletes. His whole supporting item was the reflexes they need to slow down for people going into the pits, and maneuvering thru traffic.
Reflexes yes, athletic ability needed? Not so much. I can sit in a car and drive for 2-3-4 hours too,and I get winded going to the kitchen. - snareguy17, on 11/15/2008, -23/+17NASCAR is boring as hell, get this off of the front page.
- kenkyomausu, on 11/15/2008, -11/+4They should have crashed/blown up durring the interview, that's the only thing that i watch NASCAR for, that's the only way i'd watch an interview.
- inyearstocome, on 11/15/2008, -13/+5I wonder... with GM failing and *hopefully* being forced to change their ways, will NASCAR finally be affected and stop gaining popularity, so we can get back to events where the highlight is the actual driving of the car, not the CRASHING...
Please play more Formula1, Rally, and LeMans on tv instead of middle american high speed circle crashing.
/rant - inactive, on 11/15/2008, -13/+4Three NASCAR articles on the front page today?
- enantiodromia, on 11/15/2008, -12/+3even fishing shows are more interesting than watching NASCAR, which is in itself, sad.
- bman1984, on 11/15/2008, -14/+5WOOOO Left turns for three hours!!!!
- dubdope, on 11/15/2008, -14/+4***** nascar
- Nero9171, on 11/15/2008, -15/+5***** NASCAR.
- pstroll, on 11/15/2008, -12/+2Forza Ferrari!!!
(*** oh and ***** NASCAR) - inactive, on 11/15/2008, -14/+4i'd rather ***** a hornet's nest than watch NASCAR.
- tekkie89, on 11/15/2008, -16/+6This would be cooler if it wasn't about NASCAR.
- FMVorenkamp, on 11/15/2008, -11/+0Who the ***** is digging NASCAR?
- aobtd, on 11/15/2008, -13/+1DIGG ME UP
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