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Stock car racing starts this Saturday with the ARCA race at Daytona. Really looking forward to this years racing season. Daytona 500 is on the 16th.

 

For those whose passion is Baseball, spring training starts the 22nd. 

 

Looking forward to both.

 

YEE HAW.

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NHRA WINTERNATIONALS is this weekend!!

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Hopefully Cup racing will be better  this year. I have been a fan since the mid-80's when it first showed up on TV, but last season for the first time in many years I chose not to watch several races. With 7 time announcing his retirement, rule changes and driver swapping, could be more than the same 4 or 5 every week.

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I was seven years old when I started going to stock car races with my dad. I lost interest when they went to the new formats, team racing and all the car restrictions. I would love to go back to the days of every man for himself and run what you bring.

As far as baseball I live at the edge of the Pittsburgh market so we don’t have a major league team here 

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I have been watching NASCAR for 55 years. The last 10 years have been horrible. Watch the stands, and notice how the cameras don't really show you the stands. A lot of empty seats. Get rid of the stages race. Otherwise the season is the last 16 races, no more.  They fine a driver for being aggressive! SO I guess Dale Senior would be asked to leave if he was around!

 

And like Pro-stock in NHRA there is absolutely nothing stock about these cars. NASCAR they all run the same equipment except for the engines. And oh my Toyota couldn't make enough horsepower for them to be competitive so let's change the rules for Toyota only. Sponsor money runs NASCAR.

I'm down to watching the super speedway races. And then it's the first 50 laps and the last 75 laps. Everything in between is a snooze fest.

Ike

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46 minutes ago, Henry T Harrison said:

I was seven years old when I started going to stock car races with my dad. I lost interest when they went to the new formats, team racing and all the car restrictions. I would love to go back to the days of every man for himself and run what you bring.

As far as baseball I live at the edge of the Pittsburgh market so we don’t have a major league team here 

 

2 minutes ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said:

I have been watching NASCAR for 55 years. The last 10 years have been horrible. Watch the stands, and notice how the cameras don't really show you the stands. A lot of empty seats. Get rid of the stages race. Otherwise the season is the last 16 races, no more.  They fine a driver for being aggressive! SO I guess Dale Senior would be asked to leave if he was around!

 

And like Pro-stock in NHRA there is absolutely nothing stock about these cars. NASCAR they all run the same equipment except for the engines. And oh my Toyota couldn't make enough horsepower for them to be competitive so let's change the rules for Toyota only. Sponsor money runs NASCAR.

I'm down to watching the super speedway races. And then it's the first 50 laps and the last 75 laps. Everything in between is a snooze fest.

Ike

 

I would love it if they went back to the old days. Real body styles and run what you brung. That ain't gonna happen. The stands being empty is, IMO, directly due to the stage racing. If you've noticed, they paint the grandstand seats different colors to make it look like they're filled but even for a Cup race they aren't even half full. Used to be that tracks like Bristol, Daytona, Talladega and Darlington had 2 year waiting lists to purchase seats. Now NASCAR is practically begging you to buy a ticket.

 

It doesn't help that the National media refuses to cover auto sports hardly at all. The 24 hours of Daytona was run two weeks ago, not a damn thing in the local newspaper about it. I guess they consider it to be a conservative/Republican crowd so they won't acknowledge it. It also doesn't help that Earnhardt Senior was killed in 2001. Junior sort of became the face of NASCAR but he was a mediocre driver at best. All the team racing, both owner and manufacture has gotten out of hand. You have the "super teams" and then the rest of the pack. 

 

If NASCAR wants fans to return to the tracks, they need to get rid of stage racing, restrictor plates and the majority or the aero crap on the cars these day. If they brought that spoiler down to 4" and took the front aero off, there's no way that they can run around the 2.5+ mile tracks flat footed.

 

There's no Earnhardt, Gordon, Wallace or Waltrip to root for or against. Everyone roots against the Busch brothers but it's not the same.

 

Oh well, I'll still watch every chance that I get....it's in my blood. Been watching ever since I was a kid and all you'd get to see was a snippet on the Wide World of Sports. I'll be rooting for Matt DiBenedetto in the #21 Wood Brothers car this year. Anyone but the 48 and the 18.

 

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With speeds approaching 350 mph in just 1,000 feet for the nitro professional classes and 200 mph for the motorcycles, NHRA offers excitement and the stands are full.

 

Stage racing and rules that virtually eliminate creativity and independent development have hurt NASCAR, possibly to the point of irreparable harm. Formula cars that are cookie cutter copies that aren’t allowed any deviation and rule restrictions on engine, chassis, and drive train are NOT conducive to healthy competition!!

 

Fans want to see real competition that represents individual innovation and the skills of drivers, crews, and crew chiefs. 

 

By making all the offerings “vanilla”, NASCAR has taken the soul out of stock car racing!!

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5 hours ago, Sixgun Sheridan said:

Don't forget the fact that NASCAR is slowly turning anti-gun by rejecting gun companies as sponsors. Talk about peeing off the majority of your fan base.

 

Any facts to back that up? Last year, Henry sponsored a car and the NRA had their name on/sponsored a Texas race. Granted the network would not mention the sponsor's name in either case and went out of the way to not show the NRA paint on the infield. The socialist liberal media doesn't want anything positive concerning firearms to be aired. I'm surprised that they even submit their bid for the NASCAR races.

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14 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Any facts to back that up? Last year, Henry sponsored a car and the NRA had their name on/sponsored a Texas race. Granted the network would not mention the sponsor's name in either case and went out of the way to not show the NRA paint on the infield. The socialist liberal media doesn't want anything positive concerning firearms to be aired. I'm surprised that they even submit their bid for the NASCAR races.

 

The NASCAR coverage on NBC is so lousy, I wish that they would just drop coverage and let someone competent pick up their part!!

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20 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

 

The NASCAR coverage on NBC is so lousy, I wish that they would just drop coverage and let someone competent pick up their part!!

 

I can't disagree with that. NBC=Nothing but commercials.

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1 hour ago, Clay Mosby said:

Get rid of stages, get rid of guaranteed starting spots, get rid of all the aero, put at least 25% of the races on dirt.  Now THAT would be a fun season to watch!!

 

All that plus I'd love to see car restrictions easing up.  What started out as an "every man's sport" has turned into high dollar business which only the rich can afford.  

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I would like to see them race Stock cars, or at least the way that they were stock in the late '60s:

engines, chassis and body as designed by the manufacturer,  ride height same as cars being driven on the street, and the manufacturer required to sell (or at least offer for sale) 500 cars equipt with the engine, transmission and chassis as the cars being raced.

 

I also want to see door handle to door handle racing all around the track!

And racing by every driver out there, even if he is racing for 15th place instead of 16th.

 

Too much to ask for!

 

Duffield

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If today's race was indicative of the 500, there should be plenty of "close" racing. I don't even know how the winner was able to see out of the windshield to finish the race. 

I laughed the whole last two laps of the green/white/checker. Just too funny to see a car that damaged win. Good thing that this wasn't the "old days", someone would have been hurt.

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Only four cars left on the track in the end and Bowyer still couldn't win! ;)

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Blackwater. I just watched the 2020 NHRA Winternational's. Stands were 1/3 full! They couldn't put together a 16 car top fuel field. 13 cars. Pro-Stock Chevrolet was a big snooze fest. Racers were won at the green light. Reaction time wins.  No Fords or Mopar's.

Funny cars, between tire shake and engines blown there were very few side by side races.  

The only thing exciting were the top fuel motor cycles.

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When they finally got to what was the final restart with 6 cars left I was laughing like crazy. Didn't really care who won as long as it wasn't Dillon.  And then out of nowhere came two rolling piles of scrap metal and blew them away!! Most entertaining finish in quite awhile! :):):)

 

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11 hours ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said:

Blackwater. I just watched the 2020 NHRA Winternational's. Stands were 1/3 full! They couldn't put together a 16 car top fuel field. 13 cars. Pro-Stock Chevrolet was a big snooze fest. Racers were won at the green light. Reaction time wins.  No Fords or Mopar's.

Funny cars, between tire shake and engines blown there were very few side by side races.  

The only thing exciting were the top fuel motor cycles.

 

My brother was at the event. Said that the crowd was good, considering the weather and that competition was above average!  

 

Yes! Pro Stock is almost all Chevy because the other manufacturers felt they couldn’t compete!!  

 

There were some really great races with some being decided by thousandths of a second and some truly outstanding performances by Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers and teams!!

 

Oh! The final in Pro Stock was won by less than one one hundredth of a second by the guy that left the starting line LAST!!!

 

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Howdy,

I guess I should wash my Bears cap.

Anybody know why football caps don't have a logo on each side?

I found a cammo Cubs cap on clearance at Walmart. 

Fit me perfect. Nine bucks. Don't know orig price.

Batter UP

CR

 

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