Racetrack bans American flags

WorldNetDaily ^ | 7/3/04 | Joe Kovacs

[wagglebee]

I live about a half hour from the racetrack. And I can promise that in this very heavily military area, this will never go over.

[So Cal Rocket]

Freeping Information:


Langley Speedway
3165 North Armistead Ave.
Hampton, VA 23666
Phone: (757) 865-1100
Fax: (757) 865-1147

Email: langleyinfo@langleyspeedway.com

[So Cal Rocket]

Brink Nelms General Manager
	Debbie Case Promoter
	Mary Shepp Office Manager Group Sales Coordinator
	Bryan Bowyer Race Director
	Brian Crawford Tech Inspector 757-838-4179
	Carl Phillips Tech Inspector 757-898-7832

[cripplecreek]

I'm confused. What kind of moron would think they could do something like that without enraging race fans? I have to wonder if this is a new owners who doesn't understand race fans and other people involved.

When we go to MIS its pretty much a 'given' that flags are lowered at race time.

I bet this gets resolved pretty quickly unless the owner plans to close his doors.

[clintonh8r]

People should fly their flags anyway. Track management will back down.

[Vetvoice]

I just went to their website and that racetrack is closed from July 1 until July 10. When do you think people are going to gather in the racetrack infield? Someone got some bad information. This track is not even open.

[MikefromOhio]

First of all, I kind of doubt that if every spectator at the race on the infield flies a flag that the race promoter will kick them all out (they have no balls)

and secondly, how about we not fly the Confederate flag on the 4th of July? The 4th of July is the birthday of the USA, not the CSA....

[tob2]

I'm not military and this is not going over well with me!

[MineralMan]

"I just went to their website and that racetrack is closed from July 1 until July 10. "

Really? Could this be a bogus story? If so, it will circulate forever on the web and via email. But...if you went to the site and found that the track's own site says it is closed....

[wagglebee]

If they want to ban the American flag, it should be done places like a Barbra Streisand concert or the Democratic National Convention -- you know, places that patriotic Americans would never be caught dead in.

[cripplecreek]

You would think so.

[xp38]

Yes sort of odd I would say since NASCAR is in Daytona this weekend. I somehow think old glory will be flying there.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

PINGS

[MineralMan]

1-Jul 75 off 50 25 25 20 Fireworks
3-Jul Closed
10-Jul 50 40 50 off 20 off 20


And here's the track's schedule. Looks like there are no events planned for July 4 at all.

WorldNet Daily apparently strikes again.

[GSlob]

On the "waffle house" kerry picture:
(1) besides his using the middle finger
(2) for some unfathomable reason his front hoof DOES NOT HAVE AN OPPOSABLE THUMB and is entirely symmetrical around that same middle finger of his.
Hence he can be described as belonging to a different species (flip-flopping waffler? - any FReeper zoologists to help here?), and, as such, is manifestly ineligible to stand in any election.

[Jonah Hex]

It's not bogus. (It's local to me.)

Several track stewards resigned yesterday in protest.

[billbears]

The issue came to a head Thursday night, when one driver in the Late Model Sportsman division was told he would be disqualified for flying the American flag on his car's hauler.

First of all, it was the union flag that was flying. Secondly, this is a concerted effort from NASCAR that has been going on for years to whitewash anything Southern from the sport. Ban all flags then they can't be blamed for being the regionalists they are. I bet the France family would feel right at home if they just moved all of NASCAR to Vermont. The way they're going, sooner or later it will be.

[MikefromOhio]

you completely and totally misread what I put in my post but thats alright.....

the union flag....get over yourself....the flag of the United States is what you mean...

[Jonah Hex]

(Here's an excerpt from the local rag (which shall go unnamed))

HAMPTON -- Seven officials at Langley Speedway resigned on Friday, a day after track officials threatened to disqualify a driver after he refused to take down an American flag he was flying on his hauler.

Bryan Bowyer, the track's chief steward, confirmed that he and six other track officials quit Friday, protesting track owner Dwight Schaubach's policy against flying flags in the infield.

"I told Brink Nelms (Langley's general manager) that I could not agree with a ban on the American flag in the infield," Bowyer said. "That's why I and the others quit. It's a matter of respect for the American flag."

[Petronski]

Track closed July 1 to July 10. So what? How does that make the article bogus?