Ciro, you are a wealth of knowledge, but I must disagree with you and other NASCAR supporters. This is not a personal attack, this is a difference of opinion and perspective as a former NASCAR fan that sees the wizard behind the curtain.
NASCAR is nothing more than WWE on wheels. Or Luchadores. Or whatever. NASCAR isn't hard, I don't care how much camber some corners have on entry versus exit. It's a series mired in tech that's 40-50 years behind the average road car. There's zero reason they have only now tested fuel injection. The racing rules change from event to event. They stand behind this facade of good ol' boys when they are shrewd, backstabbing, vicious politicians that would as soon sell their grandmother up a river as lose a popularity contest. They throw parties with country singers and preachers that give invocations before every race, and then they let competitors go out on track and literally try to kill each other (Edwards and Kesolowski to name but one pair). They dress that up as 'rubbin' is racin'. Nothing they do on track translates to any road car. The LS engine wasn't borne from NASCAR racing. The safety of road cars didn't come from NASCAR. The series is more like IROC. Not a single person in NASCAR could identify a car without paint and stickers on them, it's the same damn car. The racing is dictated and won by who can convince Brian France would make him more money. They allow GoodYear to continue to make tires that are guaranteed to spectacularly fail at least once a race. They won't make a car that's lighter weight with more tire and lower CG to help this problem. NASCAR is rigged. NASCAR is a joke, they shouldn't even call it racing. They should call it 'Staged for your entertainment with rigged cautions and crashes when it gets boring' Cup Series. But that doesn't sound as good as a series borne from illegal activity that gives ... in the stands some fake emotional connection because they have a John Deere license plate tag and Remington stickers with camo running board graphics, all on an F-150 that hasn't seen a dirt driveway much less actually used as a truck. ... NASCAR and their fake fans. The announcers won't call ... when they see it, they tow the corporate line and say what their told to avoid risking the fake persona NASCAR tries so desperate to keep. Too bad the death of Dale Earnhardt didn't also kill NASCAR, he would have been better of in sports car racing like he was planning.
I hate NASCAR for all of those reasons and more. They are ... wrapped in a lie. There's nothing useful done in that series. They drive around wasting perfectly good gas so ... rednecks can see wrecks that the cars are specifically engineered to survive so they can go crash back into the dude that hit them, thereby making perfect TV drama so people will stick around for the commercials and buy a Jeff Gordon hat for 30 bucks. 'Support the troops for defending out freedom' they constantly bleat to pull heartstrings. They won't say 'We support the troops fighting for corporate profits and political power.' That doesn't make good TV or appeal emotionally to the wallets of their fans. ... NASCAR. It's a worthless series run by politicians ... . Formula 1 is too, but they don't dress it up with fake smiles and fake Christian values.
/rant off
Would be kinda neat to see Kimi give an interview to somebody like Darrell Waltrip. Talk about awkward silence.
