Originally Posted by
over4T
Today NASCAR tries one of their new experiments to regain fans and credibility after years of ruining the Cup races for millions of longtime followers of the sport. Unless you live under a rock you've heard of the paving and building of a 1/4 mile track at the Los Angeles Coliseum, a massive and extremely undertaking.
They're going back to roots type racing with heat races and a 150 lap main with the new generation cars, a stupid IROC type car that will put hundreds of NASCAR mechanics, body men, etc. out of jobs in the goal of total parity with the cars.
Speedway Illustrated magazine, in my humble opinion the premiere publication on racing in the USA, has an article in the current issue on what makes up the new car. They seldom mention NASCAR as there just isn't much interest there anymore. It's disturbing to a guy like me and the other older racers that grew up scrounging the junkyards (now recycling centers) for parts to cobble together a car to race at our local tracks back when you could tell a Ford from a Chevy or Chrysler, let alone the Hudsons and Studebakers. For the kids, that was before there was such a thing as a Toyota. It's depressing that one company will build all the Cup chassis, another will build the bodies, still another the shocks and on and on and on. No deviations with any of it period. It just takes half the joy out of racing, that of building something to beat the other guys.
I'll turn the TV on for it today out of curiosity but doubt that I'll last through the whole thing and will probably go out and unload our Pro Stock and start on the front-end damage we incurred at last night's adventure Will you watch?