Posted on 05/22/2012 9:21:02 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I think Brain France should get the credit.
MSNBCs Thomas Roberts talks to NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France about NASCARs efforts to go green, including hybrid pace cars.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc-tv/47102965#47102965
Not that it matters, but he owns royalties of all of Britney Spears perfumes.
I left after they outlawed the "Winged Bird" back in 70-71'.
Came back for Elliot and the Jelly Bean Bird.
Left after that because the world was going EFI, they were still using flippin Carbs...
I need to save money and block time, and get to the air races in Reno, now that is speed...
Make them all electric cars. They have to recharge every lap.
Fans can watch from the nearest club/bar/honkytonk because it’ll take a week to finish a race.
Sheesh
NHRA is on TV every Sunday too.
I have never been but nitro funny cars rock!
Go Team John Force. Still waiting for Courtney to get her first win.
Ever since the death of Dale Earnhardt, the sport has been in a decline for me personally.
Dale Earnhardt, like him or not, kept the sport interesting. Since his death, NASCAR has become a dull, boring sport for me. World class engine builders are forced to build basically assembly line junk to put in the cars, the drivers can’t perform outlandish stunts on each other to win races, and the cars now all basically look the same.
I haven’t checked the numbers, has the sport decreased in popularity, with my own decrease-to-zero interest? I would guess it has definitely decreased in the eyes of the rural folks, like me, who used to love the sport. Maybe the city people who are so deeply invested in the sport with race tracks are still keeping it strong.
It’s an embarrasment to me that the race at Daytona is still held, since they abdandoned so many back road race tracks, for city tax revenue and glory.
I have been a NASCAR fan for about 50 years.
i am totally disgusted that they have been bamboozled into such an agreement.
First of all, the EPA is a bully of the first degree. While all the politicians are decrying bullying, they readily support the worst bully we have, the EPA.
Secondly, car racing has set the standards for innovation for over 100 years. They don’t need ‘permission’ from the bullies to do what they already do best.
I am so SICK of the word green, I could vomit.
I hear ya.. The race threads here at FR started that very year.. a race and a sporting culture died that day.
as far as ‘stock’, that’s a standing joke. there is no innovation when everyone uses the same cookie cutters .. driving CoTanks , running ecofuel. haaaa.
There is still one sport I love to watch: tractor & truck pulling.
Backyard engine builders put together Massey Furgesons, Perkins, Hemis, Cummins, Chevrolet big block engines with painstaking care, and the motors have to last about 15s at max RPM with a sled that just keeps getting heavier behind it.
Probably the only problem with tractor pulling, is that you want to cheer for everyone, for putting so much money on the line to entertain what in total, is a small demographic. I think I have only seen one guy hit superstar level there, the owner of the Silver Bullet. Beyond that, most people buy the coolest looking t-shirt, since most don’t single out a specific driver/team.
Not just Big E. It was the drivers of that era, Petty,Jarrett, Allison.....Those guys could set up a car. Todays pretty boys couldn’t find the dip stick. I haven’t watched a race since Dale Jarrett retired.
I figured the End of NASCAR was apparent when it banned cigarette sponsers and the flying of the Confederate Battle Flag “to expand its base” up north and west.
Well, that’s when I said “Buh Bye”!
Don’t care anout the Preening Primadonnas anymore.
I figured the End of NASCAR was apparent when it banned cigarette sponsers and the flying of the Confederate Battle Flag “to expand its base” up north and west.
Well, that’s when I said “Buh Bye”!
Don’t care about the Preening Primadonnas anymore.
“... since they abdandoned so many back road race tracks, for city tax revenue and glory.”
Just like Drive-In movies, they’re are some still out there....just have to drive away from the suburbs and head to counties where the yuppies haven’t infested.
On behalf of the crew, thanks for the ping Norm...
That’s the one. The best thing that could happen to NASCAR would be for Penske to purchase the entire mess. He can turn a cow patty into a raging bull. Penske is a businessman. Dennis is a business dud.
I would enjoy NASCAR holding a thousand mile race, oval road course combination. It needs something to bring up the interest level aside from PC crap.
Remember when Mercury put a corp of Mercury Comets on the Daytona track and ran them for one hundred thousand miles with only oil changes and other routine maintenance performed? Something like that as a competitive event could add some long term interest to NASCAR as well as getting some very active manufacture involvement during the off season. Daily broadcast and updates on SpeedTV or ESPN could keep the interest up.
NASCAR could engage in something like the old Mobil economy runs. From the tip of Florida to Seattle would be interesting. Class winners would be determined by a combination of economy and time.
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