NASCAR "racing", was Sloth in action 2857Mike T. Apparently not enough. Did you manage to catch any of that F1 Bridgestone test session at Indy this year? This is where you become clueless. What is it you want...
Y'know, you make an interesting point.
On a similar note . . .
I happened to be very bored at home the other day and thought I'd watch a NASCAR race on TV. (the ONLY thing on at the time) I don't remember whether the race was at Daytona Beach or Talladega, but it was obviously ONE of those two. The commentator said the cars were equipped with restrictor plates to limit speed and acceleration. I remember thinking WHAT THE f***?!? I mean, was this supposed to be a car race that I was watching, or a really fast commute on a circular track?
I'm not a NASCAR fan. That one race I saw was the first and ONLY race I'll ever watch. But I remember thinking that if all the cars have the restrictor plates, why do they call it racing, and why is NASCAR so popular? My wife could probably finish in the top 5 of a NASCAR 'race' if her NASCAR-type vehicle was equipped with a restrictor plate. With the restrictor plates, the object of the excercise (why call it a race?) is to travel a certain distance as fast as possible while keeping your car on the track and moving. PERIOD. Forget about the other drivers-vehicles, the restrictor plates make a NASCAR "race" more of an endurance event. If you don't have any mechanical problems, and nobody crashes into you . . . YOU WIN!!!!
But then, I made the mistake of buttuming that all NASCAR races used the restrictor plates. I wasn't aware that it was only a couple of tracks. So I guess if you are a NASCAR fan, you don't go to any events at those two tracks, and you change the TV channel if the NASCAR race happens to be at one of those two tracks. RIGHT??? -Dave
