RACE AS USUAL.
Another weekend. Another race. Another East coast rain delay. It's gotten far beyond sickening. Why won't NASCAR wake up? Forget the immense annoyance for a minute. These delays are VERY expensive for everyone. Team schedules are hard enough to maintain without them. Tens of thousands of empty seats because of rain, or the threat of rain. Millions of fans missing all or part of races because they can't spend extra hours on the couch at home. I'm an avid, almost rabid fan of NASCAR. But like so many of the fans, my time is very precious. I had to fly out of town late Sunday afternoon, so I once again had to miss the last laps of Sunday's  race. I'm not asking NASCAR to move all the races to fairer climes. But how about at least half of them. NASCAR is now a national sport. The days of the 'good ole Southern boys' showing off the cars they use for outrunning the 'revenuers' is long past. Now millions of West coast fans have joined the fold. Fans that fill the seats. Even the NNS seats. Nevada, Arizona, California, and New Mexico have a minute fraction of the rain that they have on the East coast. NASCAR should 'single up' all, and completely eliminate some of the East coast races, and 'double up' or add to the West coast races. I go nuts listening to the incessant babbling and pointless interviews of the TV announcers to fill air time. But even that's nothing compared to the ennui felt by the fans at the track. At least we TV viewers have a comfortable home, convenient restroom, and lots of food and drink at our disposal. Well, will the race this coming weekend at Watkins Glen be dry? Guess. And then schedule yourself an extra 3 or 4 hours just in case. It is the East coast you know.
Posted: 8/4/2008 7:41:12 PM
Comments:

You are dead-on right! A brillient idea, becasue as we all remember the 24 Feb race in California had perfect weather, or didn't you stay up for the delays?
Why not just have all the races at Phoenix and Las Vegas?
Posted On: 8/10/2008 12:42:04 PM
Okay Mouthflap. I guess english is your second language. Re-read my blog another 4 or 5 times. Then have a 6 year old explain it to you. I said to move a lot more races to the West. There are far too many empty seats and rain delays in the East. And you think driving in a rainstorm would be worth watching? 20 MPH turns. 50 MPH top speed. Oh gee. What fun. You can watch that in your rocking chair between changing your 'Depends'. Maybe your nurse will bring you Jello. Real fans want real racing with real speed. At the track without an umbrella.
Posted On: 8/8/2008 3:53:47 AM
Get a clue. I'm sure NASCAR would seriously consider your suggestion of eliminating all races on the east coast. Mr. France, I think you should flush more than half your fans down the toilet, what do you think. Sounds like a great business decision to me. They remind me of Boss Hog and Roscoe.

Put the rain tires on and race. Seems like the Busch guys, I mean the Nationwide guys can do it. Maybe we would see some better racing. Maybe Kyle Petty is a hell of a rain driver. Racing in the rain would add a whole other dimension to the sport. Now that would be worth watching.
Posted On: 8/5/2008 9:58:33 PM

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