I love NASCAR. Who can resist watching it for hours on end just to see the highly anticipated last lap (the only action of the race unless of course there are any wrecks during the race).
Anyway, post your views and vote.
By the way here is one person's view: Link (Consumption Junction home page so be careful at work.)
If you can't read it due to CJ website here is the story:
"There is an epidemic spreading.
It started some seventy years ago in Appalachia, presumably in the cabin of a modified Chevrolet loaded with moonshine as it sped down a dirt road pursued by the local authorities. The virus transmuted as it infected other hosts and soon acquired official recognition as it endangered the greater populous. Until recently those affected were primarily shotgun toting, wife-beating white trash hooked on cheap thrills and cheaper beer. But officials were overwhelmed when the disease was found to have spread so far they had to divide the population contaminated by this vicious contagion into classes, one named after a cigarette manufacturer. Now a simple six letter acronym describes the entirety of this terrible affliction:
NASCAR.
So stop reading if you are a fan. You are probably having a hard time anyway. I am about to dispel the belief that NASCAR is really a sport, much less a motorsport. Sure it involves engines and sweat and participants vying for a place atop a podium, but sports evolve, not devolve. Then again, if you are a fan, the aforementioned are probably foreign concepts imposed on your children by godless public school teachers whom are bent on spreading communism.
NASCAR sucks for so many reasons CJ doesn't have enough space on the server for me to list them all. But I will start at the top.
What motorsport actively suppresses technological innovations? Don't you think those cars will run faster (and I am not talking about removing the restrictor plates, BobbyJo) with three extra cams, forced induction, fuel injection, lighter wheels, et cetera? NASCAR winners are teams who can skirt the regulation or at least bend them. They are not those who put something totally new to the automotive world under the hood of a roll cage dressed up like a Ford Fusion.
Motorsports should represent the vanguard to all things powered by a combustion engine. What is proven on the track eventually trickles down the showroom floor. It should be a glimpse of the technology we may see on tomorrow's vehicles, from carbon fiber body panels to pneumatically actuated induction valves. NASCAR regulations are designed to stifle progress and create an "even" playing field, as if they were handed down from Vladimir Lenin himself.
More disturbing the rules seem to encourage collisions. I will concede that there has been some innovation with air brakes placed on the roofs and better harnesses securing the drivers. But collisions sell tickets and somehow attract corporate sponsors. However, NASCAR should not be a demolition derby with drivers running the gauntlet at the center of a figure-eight course. A crash is an eventuality that is more common in this motorsport than others, and it is really stupid. One of the things so cool about racing (real racing) is the rare occasion when an accident occurs. You wait through many starts and finishes, even seasons to see a spectacular crash. It is the haunting reminder that this is for real. NASCAR with its pack of cars running together offers it every Sunday, and sadly the sensation is diluted because the cars hold together, and it happens so often. Have you ever seen an open wheel crash? Probably in ESPN highlights, and I bet you wish that you were nowhere near it when it went down.
So this Sunday remember that are real sports to watch and better things to do. Watching NASCAR is a way for non-athletes to relate to those who share the same mundane task of driving a car. I drive to work every day, but I consider myself too smart to be enamored with this faux sport. I also don't feel a sense of comradery with drivers who only make left turns (I know there are street courses, but who actually watches them?) and talk trash in southern drawls at the end of each race as if honor and class have no place in motorsports.
Well, I will top them all: Dale Earnhardt was a fayggot.
And if you got anything to say to me, please write your responses carefully. They are liable to get posted here on CJ if your redneck passions override what little you have left of an 8th grade education."
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Anyway, post your views and vote.
By the way here is one person's view: Link (Consumption Junction home page so be careful at work.)
If you can't read it due to CJ website here is the story:
"There is an epidemic spreading.
It started some seventy years ago in Appalachia, presumably in the cabin of a modified Chevrolet loaded with moonshine as it sped down a dirt road pursued by the local authorities. The virus transmuted as it infected other hosts and soon acquired official recognition as it endangered the greater populous. Until recently those affected were primarily shotgun toting, wife-beating white trash hooked on cheap thrills and cheaper beer. But officials were overwhelmed when the disease was found to have spread so far they had to divide the population contaminated by this vicious contagion into classes, one named after a cigarette manufacturer. Now a simple six letter acronym describes the entirety of this terrible affliction:
NASCAR.
So stop reading if you are a fan. You are probably having a hard time anyway. I am about to dispel the belief that NASCAR is really a sport, much less a motorsport. Sure it involves engines and sweat and participants vying for a place atop a podium, but sports evolve, not devolve. Then again, if you are a fan, the aforementioned are probably foreign concepts imposed on your children by godless public school teachers whom are bent on spreading communism.
NASCAR sucks for so many reasons CJ doesn't have enough space on the server for me to list them all. But I will start at the top.
What motorsport actively suppresses technological innovations? Don't you think those cars will run faster (and I am not talking about removing the restrictor plates, BobbyJo) with three extra cams, forced induction, fuel injection, lighter wheels, et cetera? NASCAR winners are teams who can skirt the regulation or at least bend them. They are not those who put something totally new to the automotive world under the hood of a roll cage dressed up like a Ford Fusion.
Motorsports should represent the vanguard to all things powered by a combustion engine. What is proven on the track eventually trickles down the showroom floor. It should be a glimpse of the technology we may see on tomorrow's vehicles, from carbon fiber body panels to pneumatically actuated induction valves. NASCAR regulations are designed to stifle progress and create an "even" playing field, as if they were handed down from Vladimir Lenin himself.
More disturbing the rules seem to encourage collisions. I will concede that there has been some innovation with air brakes placed on the roofs and better harnesses securing the drivers. But collisions sell tickets and somehow attract corporate sponsors. However, NASCAR should not be a demolition derby with drivers running the gauntlet at the center of a figure-eight course. A crash is an eventuality that is more common in this motorsport than others, and it is really stupid. One of the things so cool about racing (real racing) is the rare occasion when an accident occurs. You wait through many starts and finishes, even seasons to see a spectacular crash. It is the haunting reminder that this is for real. NASCAR with its pack of cars running together offers it every Sunday, and sadly the sensation is diluted because the cars hold together, and it happens so often. Have you ever seen an open wheel crash? Probably in ESPN highlights, and I bet you wish that you were nowhere near it when it went down.
So this Sunday remember that are real sports to watch and better things to do. Watching NASCAR is a way for non-athletes to relate to those who share the same mundane task of driving a car. I drive to work every day, but I consider myself too smart to be enamored with this faux sport. I also don't feel a sense of comradery with drivers who only make left turns (I know there are street courses, but who actually watches them?) and talk trash in southern drawls at the end of each race as if honor and class have no place in motorsports.
Well, I will top them all: Dale Earnhardt was a fayggot.
And if you got anything to say to me, please write your responses carefully. They are liable to get posted here on CJ if your redneck passions override what little you have left of an 8th grade education."
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