Thursday, February 24, 2005

NASCAR is for Rednecks! By the way, I am a white southern kid.

NASCAR is for Rednecks! The first step for the American public to better themselves is to acknowledge that NASCAR is the worst sporting event on television and is targeted at an uneducated southern market known as the redneck. The second step is for those who fall into the catagory of redneck to stop taking pride in it. Come on, the Confederate South is really not the greatest thing to celebrate. Read "Confederates in the Attic" by Tony Horwitz and you will be able to really see the stupidity of it.
Anyways, the real point i'm trying to get at is that NASCAR is pretty lame. They turn Left for four hours while pushing the pedal to the floor. Is that really impressive to you? Plus, all the cars look the same. Their extensive windtunnel testing has proven that the bigass American car can only take one shape to be aerodynamic.
Now, I offer some alternatives. World Rally Championship is the best driving in the world. The drivers pilot 4 wheel drive sports cars at 120mph on roads around the world. These roads are the same everyday roads that the public might drive. Some are gravel, some are tarmac. Some have gaurdrails, others don't. These guys cover thousands of miles with the aid of a co-driver whose job is to read a description of the turn that will pop up after the next two turns because they are traveling so darn fast.
American LeMans Series- Maybe you don't support the foriegn autosports, so now you can watch a motorsport that we stole from the French!!! The ALMS is a series where sports cars of all shapes and sizes battle it out on road courses for hours on end.
Australian V-8 supercar challenge- Essentially the Australian version of NASCAR, but ten times better because they turn both ways and every car is different.
Formula 1- if you never heard of it you should leave your cave.
Race of Campions- It ain't the American IROC, the ROC is a race that puts drivers from around the world against each other in cars that are identical. They use several different kinds of cars to make it fair for everyone. Here is a fun fact, Rally car drivers have won every time except for last year when a formula 1 driver won. Two NASCAR drivers are invited every year and they always come to try their hand at it. A NACAR driver has never even come close to winning the ROC since it began in the 80's.

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