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Originally Posted by Cd
The thing I don't seem to understand about motorsports are ones that ....hmmm....."lower income people" enjoy such as indoor monster truck racing.
Yepp...let's take an enclosed stadium and race around in small circles jumping over already crushed cars. The gasoline fumes and noise ? The kids love it !
Tractor pulls : Yepp ....let's take this big weight and waste all this fuel to move it a few feet. and do it all over again.
NASCAR : Yepp ...let's take these cars which we call " stock" cars and race in a big circle ...hundreds of times. No variations, no turns .nuthin. And we gotta put a sticker on the front a these cars to tell everyone what kind a car it is we be drivin' cause there ain't nuthin stock at all about one a these . Not the body , not the wheels, not a thing. Not even that emblem on the front a the car is real. It's a sticker !
If we put a Chevy next to a Toyota and not have the stickers, no one would be able to tell what make the "stock" car is because each has to look alike.
At least in the early days , NASCAR had cars that looked like what they were supposed to be.
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In the US of A, lower-income people are attracted to motorsport because it's escapist. They spend loads of time hard at work, so why not glorify the commute?
The trends in sports such as NASCAR are for the better. By making "stock cars" just rolling chassis of the cars they were doesn't exactly encourage copycats like it used to.