I have nothing against NASCAR, and always watch part of the races at Dover, but attending them has never interested me.
Dover was the first race held after 9/11/01.......I didn’t need the TV on to hear the crowd roar when Lee Greenwood finished singing and in fact I muted the TV so I could actuallly hear it........
BTW - I’m a Petty team fan. Richard was drunker than a hoot owl in the club I was in the night I met my husband....Race weekend June 1988.
I was just adding my 2 cents having been to several Pocono races. I loved it since the first time we ever went. We stopped for a year or two, got old (us and going!), then we went to this past June’s race and wouldn’t ya know it, it rained! We left before they restarted after the second (or was it the third) time it rained. Of course it got sunny on the ride home! It did rain again I believe and they ended the race early.
We went to our first race, Pocono 1993, right after Davey Allison died. Too many up there in Nascar heaven. Dale Sr. was our driver. Now like many we follow Junior (although we did before Sr. died) and will stick with him in the “88” with Hendrick (hard as that is not being overly fond of Gordon & Johnson, they are good, have to give them that I guess, lol!)
That’s something about Richard, hopefully he doesn’t do that any more since he’s aged some since then! Losing Adam was such a shame, he had the magic more than Kyle I think, but I also think he was too young to go into Cup racing. But he, Kenny Irwin, Neal Bonnett, and Dale Sr. would probably still be here if the head and neck restraint had been used way earlier.