NASCAR - what am I missing?

[Cityboy]

Agreed but not really much different than football or some other major sporting events.

Can't say I've ever seen anything comparable at a pro baseball or football game. A rock concert, maybe. Race fans are there all day in the hot sun drinking cold beer, eating $5.00 hot dogs, boiled eggs and barbeque. Other sporting events are usually limited to 4 hours or less. Ever been in the infield at a race?

 

[Dargo]

Ever been in the infield at a race?

Yeah, the KY Derby...

 

[Gatorboy]

I'm confident you could beat Kyle Petty with a weekend of practice, but most of the others would put you into the wall when they lap you.

I used to race hydroplanes. When I started, I went out and bought the winning boat, motor and prop from the previous year's champion. My rookie season (never having driven a hydroplane before), I was my region's high point winner and took 7th place in the Nationals. I would have won it if I didn't jump the damn gun by a 1/4 boat length in the first heat of the finals.

Give me the best stuff, and time to practice -- I WILL be competitive.

I surely wasn't afraid to bump sponsons (front pickles of the boat) with guys who had 15-20 years experience on me.

 

[Dargo]

I used to race hydroplanes. When I started, I went out and bought the winning boat, motor and prop from the previous year's champion.

I was going to be quite impressed at your financial abilities, actually shocked, because of my idea of the only hydroplanes I've seen. I worked on the "race course committee" for our annual unlimited hydroplane race for several years. I thought you were talking about having bought something like this:

 

[bczoom]

Race fans are there all day in the hot sun drinking cold beer, eating $5.00 hot dogs, boiled eggs and barbeque.

Make that 3 days (Busch race, qualifying and practice) so it's Friday - Sunday.

 

[bczoom]

For those who aren't into NASCAR, would you be interested if they incorporated many of the systems found in Spy Hunter?

 

[Big Dog]

It's hard to get excited about a sport that all it takes is money or be a child of a driver to get into the sport.

Give me the best crew and car plus 4-6 months of practice and I could compete. It's just racing.

Hell I could complete, competing could mean circling the track at minimum speed! But could you win? Ain't no way............... but then again, you can't stomp arrogance, and that's what that statement implies, because some always seems to squish out the sides!

 

[Gatorboy]

Hell I could complete, competing could mean circling the track at minimum speed! But could you win? Ain't no way...............

It's obvious you think these guys have some special talent that is somehow so special no one else could do it.

 

[Big Dog]

It's obvious you think these guys have some special talent that is somehow so special no one else could do it.

Not in 4-6 months ............... Any one can drive a car, not everyone can do it well and win in NASCAR................!

 

[OkeeDon]

It's obvious you think these guys have some special talent that is somehow so special no one else could do it.

Of course there are other people who could do it. There are over 5 billion people in world; there could be a million people who could do it. But, there are probably only a couple of thousand who will get the opportunity to do it, and of those, there are fewer than a hiundred who could do it as well. Of those, there are 43 who have not only risen to the top but managed to stay there. There are plenty of examples of people who have made it but couldn't stay there because they weren't good enough.

 

[Av8r3400]

Oh, and are you saying basketball is for ssssisssiiiesss????

If doesn't, I will.

Basketball = worthless.

 

[dzalphakilo]

For "work" I got to take the "Petty driving" school. I'd suggest you spend the money and get to a track and "just try it". You would be very surprised at the difference at going 120+ going around a "banked" track compared to doing it on a "straightaway" on the interstate.

I'm not a NASCAR fan, probably never will be. Go to a track when the teams are "practicing" and feel the vibration and hear those engines as the cars go by, see the sheer speed, smell the gas, as dumb as it sounds, I can see where people "can get into it".

That being said, the couple of pro football game I went to, I'm the type that likes to leave at the third quarter to beat traffic out. Go to Bristol or Lowes for a race, God, it'll take you at least three hours to get out of parking WHEN you get into your car if you stay till the end of the race.

You would be surprised of the amount of NASCAR drivers and owners in N.C. Met a couple of them through some contractors and didn't even know who they were (being a relocated Yankee who dosen't follow NASCAR).

 

[dzalphakilo]

It's hard to get excited about a sport that all it takes is money or be a child of a driver to get into the sport.

Give me the best crew and car plus 4-6 months of practice and I could compete. It's just racing.

Curious, what "sport" star are you that you made you millions "practicing" some sport that you were good at and then got better than everyone else?

If I remember correctly, you mentioned that you actually liked to watch golf on T.V. Are you a fagg (AKA gay mf'er)?

Matter of opinion, and like your asshole and mine, we all have one.

 

[Gatorboy]

If I remember correctly, you mentioned that you actually liked to watch golf on T.V. Are you a fagg (AKA gay mf'er)?

If people who like to watch golf on TV are faggots, then yes, I'm a faggot. You wanna come by and watch a round together? Curious, do you like to give or receive?

As for your other question, I am clueless to the meaning of it.

 

[dzalphakilo]

Well, at least you admit it. I new there was a reason (too may shockers on the matt I take it).

You're welcoome to come by my place anytime to watch t.v (although call first, I don't want to miss the Winston hydroplane racing championship series on T.V) Although I don't mind the Inner Habor (SP?), don't particulalry care for Baltimore and surrounding areas, that's why you're welcome here.

I'm sure I'd end up giving it to you, BIG boy.

Do you walk funny already?

 

[DaveNay]

If doesn't, I will.

Basketball = worthless.

Professional (NBA) basketball is worthless. College basketball is still pretty fun to watch (so says an alum of KU where basketball is THE sport on campus )

 

[dzalphakilo]

Not that it matters, I honestly do not believe that if you watch golf on T.V that you are "gay" (I use to play golf, but gave up when living north due to all the crowded courses and people who wouldn't let you play through).

I have however heard from some local NASCAR fans questioning "people who watch golf" and what they see it that "sport" (and some other comments as well).

Different strokes for different folks.

 

[HGM]

Not that it matters, I honestly do not believe that if you watch golf on T.V that you are "gay" (I use to play golf, but gave up when living north due to all the crowded courses and people who wouldn't let you play through).

I have however heard from some local NASCAR fans questioning "people who watch golf" and what they see it that "sport" (and some other comments as well).

Different strokes for different folks.

Personally I cant stand golf.. Its like watching paint dry to me. However in all due respect, I have only tried it once and could see how if you played with a good group of guys just out to have fun, it could be cool I guess.. Luckily for me, my chiropractor told me that things like golf would surely allow me to revisit my back issues to a greater extreme than I have come to live with..

Now, from what I have seen, the real men play golf in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina... I have seen some courses with 100' drops on the holes. I cant immagine playing on a mountainside ..

 

[Ricochet]

Cool thread, I like NASCAR (to say the least) and most forms of racing...I will create another thread with pics from my lastest NASCAR weekend (Bristol).

 

[Gatorboy]

Maybe you guys just aren't seeing the same thing I do when watching golf:

 

[HGM]

I can definitly see your point, but thats not really golf.. Do you actually see those shots, with that kind of emphasis on TV, I would much rather just look at the pictures than sit through everything else that surrounds them .. But to each his own, I'd be willing to check out more examples, maybe you could sway me though.. ..... Tennis might be more gratifying because of the sounds that come allong with it..