Posted by NCWayne on May 25, 2014 at 20:11:41 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: OT Indy 500 posted by John T on May 25, 2014 at 06:14:08:
Not the INDY, but with NASCAR they run the 600 (not sure whether it's the Coca Cola, or whatever now) this weekend here in Concord. While I only went to one race that track in my life, and that was so long ago I don't remember what it was called, I did enjoy NASCAR when I was young. Like the colorful characters in INDY we had guys like the Petty's, Fireball Roberts, Humpy Wheeler, and others to watch. Too the cars were actually "stock" cars, some of which were driven off the showroom floor and to the track. Each brand looked like almost like a true 'stock' car that everyone else drove, whether it was a Superbird, Dodge Dart, or whatever. None of this "car of tomorrow" crap they have now days where every one of them looks just alike other than the paint job. Too, the technology in the engines, suspensions, and other key areas of the car was always what the owner/driver could come up with on their own. Now days it's like you've got a choice to run this engine or that one, that suspension, those tires, etc, etc. There is very little to make any of the cars different from any other car.
Sadly from what I have seen and read, INDY, NASCAR, and any/all of the different leagues have done the same things with the cars to make them all as close to the same as possible, in an effort to make the races 'closer' and thus more 'exciting'. To me that's all a bunch of BS as there is nothing more exciting than watching a bunch of guys 'running what they brung' and battleing it out to see who has the best car and driver, not just who has the best driver in a field of cars that are all the same. That offers me absolutely no excitement at all.....
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