Posted on 10/08/2005 5:13:39 AM PDT by Crackingham
NASCAR CEO Brian France doesn’t like fans flying Confederate flags at races as he tries to make auto racing more appealing to minorities and women.
“It’s not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That’s for sure,” he said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” to be aired Sunday. “I can’t tell people what flag to fly. I can tell you the flag we get behind: It’s the American flag.”
France is trying to broaden auto racing’s appeal with minorities in places like Los Angeles, where France moved the important Labor Day NASCAR event last year, and New York, soon to have a track.
“(Reaching out to minorities) is something I work on every day. I work on it personally,” France said.
Among those efforts France counts running a NASCAR event in Mexico and establishing a training program for female and minority drivers. And he doesn’t believe the racial stereotypes associated with the Confederate flag will affect NASCAR.
“I think it’s a fading image,” France said.
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Don't worry. The France family will eventually kill NASCAR. With the changes and apparent move to relocate every race outside of the South, they will lose their fan base before it's all over
Ok, we don't see it the same way. NASCAR said that it wasn't technically a rules violation. If they want to end these kinds of things, just have a range of acceptable height instead of a maximum.....It was only off by a very minute amount, and it did settle to the proper height. Maybe when they checked it before the race, it was right. Maybe it raised up during the race because of heat expansion. I see and respect your point of view. This is just my take on it.
Yeah right. All those fans will be there today to watch 40+ brand names circling a track for 3+ hours.
I wonder if Lowes will beat HomeDepot today?
You've got it backwards, Racing is marketing the Products.
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