April 29, 2009...8:53 pm

Why People Watch NASCAR®

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  • WesternGrit
    April 30, 2009 at 2:47 am

    Michael’s favorite sport (or one of)…

  • redtory
    April 30, 2009 at 3:53 am

    That’s fine, as long as they don’t sponsor a car, because that would be kind of dumb.

  • Patrick Ross
    April 30, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Meh. That’s about as silly as plastering your party logo on a frisbee — which has been done.

    But here’s the amusing thing:

    Crashes like Carl Edwards’ this weekend are fairly out-of-the-ordinary in NASCAR. They aren’t normally that spectacular.

    Those kinds of crashes are much more routine in open-wheel racing like Indy, F1 or Champ.

    So if people only watch for the crashes, why aren’t more people watching Indy, F1 or Champ?

    Maybe there’s more to this.

  • Kaplan
    April 30, 2009 at 9:03 am

    Give those announcers British accents, and suddenly, it’ll be a gentleman’s sport.

  • Patrick Ross
    April 30, 2009 at 9:12 am

    It’s slowly becoming more international.

    There are more Canadian, Mexican and European drivers in NASCAR now than ever before, and European speedways have begun to pursue the opportunity to host NASCAR races — although I don’t fully expect NASCAR to bite.

  • Ti-Guy
    April 30, 2009 at 9:22 am

    NASCAR is the perfect manifestation of late capitalism. There’s absolutely nothing much to it as a sport, and you get to sit on your arse and consume and pretend you’re having “quality time.” A huge expenditure of resources for absolutely nothing in return.

  • Patrick Ross
    April 30, 2009 at 10:08 am

    Tell yourself that the next time you’re driving to the grocery store.

  • Ti-Guy
    April 30, 2009 at 10:42 am

    I walk to the grocery store. It’s just across the street.

  • Patrick Ross
    April 30, 2009 at 11:58 am

    OK, then, I’ll put it to you this way:

    When some maniacal teenager is able to bring his car to a screeching halt rather than run you ever, tell yourself that NASCAR doesn’t offer anything but meaningless spectacle.

  • Reg
    April 30, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    LOL @ I think ‘Biffle’ almost T-boned him.

    Moving sucks, have fun.

  • Ti-Guy
    April 30, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    When some maniacal teenager is able to bring his car to a screeching halt rather than run you ever, tell yourself that NASCAR doesn’t offer anything but meaningless spectacle.

    The only time that’s ever come close to happening to me is when the teenager doesn’t yield the right of way or drives right up unto the sidewalk.

    I’ll gladly attribute *that* to NASCAR.

  • Tomm
    April 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    If your going to watch car racing, NASCAR has become the one to watch.

    It use to have competition with Indy Cars, and F1, but they are self destructing leaving the good’ole boys to rake in the audience share and the money.

    It’s bigger than the Pope. At least there is more trinkets and souvenirs being hocked.

    http://www.tonystewartstore.com/items/5/120/3742/cap-spoiler.aspx

    A Tony Stewart Cap Spoiler?

  • Geekwad
    May 8, 2009 at 5:38 am

    Patrick Ross, all I have to say is ???????wtf?!

  • sapphireandsteel
    May 8, 2009 at 7:57 am

    “When some maniacal teenager is able to bring his car to a screeching halt rather than run you ever, tell yourself that NASCAR doesn’t offer anything but meaningless spectacle.”

    I guess they don’t have driving schools in Patrick Ross’ twisted world of Hillbillyism.

  • sapphireandsteel
    May 8, 2009 at 8:02 am

    Nascar has about 75 million supporters, Roman Catholicism has over 1 billion followers. Math isn’t your strong point Tomm or is it research? :}


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