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I just did a search and saw several tracks within easy driving distance but never heard anything about them before. No radio nor TV advertisement of events.
There's a dirt track about a mile from my place. Only advertisment is on the marquee outside of the fairgrounds.
You can hear 'em every Sunday night during the summer. Probably all they need... there's no doubt that there's racin' going on.
I find it boring, pretty much regardless of series. I'm just not interested in watching it. I find watching most sports to be boring and as spectator sports go it's among the more boring. I'd rather watch football or baseball and I don't watch those either, at least not on a regular basis.
I like racing or autocross, done some form of it with every car I've owned including the Prius although only once there and just autocross for giggles. It's not that fun with a Prius obviously but more fun than watching Nascar.
Unless it has a ball of some sorts, it's not a sport.
Car racing is a really expensive sport. Man, I don't know how they do it. Sponsors, right? Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was a baller. He was an aggressive driver. Too aggressive, do you guys think? I don't know. I'm not a NASCAR-ite at all.
If it doesn't have a ball, it's not a sport. Wait a minute, what does that tell you about boxing and wrestling. You're right, they're not sports either.
In drag racing the drivers reaction time is really important, after that its the mechanics. Better chassis, better engine, better tuning, better traction, lighter weight car, and so on.
I predicted to a buddy that his driving style was going to get him killed years before it happened.
There is no ball in most Olympic sports.
Out of 47 Summer Olympic sports, only 12 use a ball.
Out of 15 Winter Olympic sports, none use a ball, but one uses a puck.
An important issue is that amateur racing is becoming increasingly less accessible.
Drag-strips around the country are closing down. There's increasingly more fretting over noise, environmental impact, land usage and so forth. Community acceptance of racing-venues is diminishing. Meanwhile, litigiousness and the safety-culture mean more rigorous and intrusive inspections, more demands for costly equipment or modifications, and more overhead. This, and higher entry fees, reduces demand. Racing becomes more of a niche activity, and so on, into a death-spiral.
I'd be more interested in watching professional racing, if I had better access as an amateur. That it is becoming harder and harder for me to take my own car on-track, is frustrating and dispiriting.
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