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I went to a local nascar race last night. I had a good time, but i deffenately saw things i never want to see in drifting.
1. Famous Drivers limoed up to the cars that were parked by someone else on the race track waiting for them.
2. Painted on or decaled headlights.
3. Crowds cheering more for the horrible accident (it was bad, a car stopped then hit by another at about 90 miles an hour, i thought the guy was hurt bad) then the last second final corner pass that changed the race leader.
4.Tube Frame OHV Carberated RWD plexiglass cars referred to as a "2003 ford taurus"
5. Praying before a race over the loud speaker... I dont know why this bothers me so much, probably do to my religious beliefs (or there for lack of) if you want to pray thats fine.. but leading the whole audience in one. i dont know bugs me.
6. Drivers and Pits kept away from the fans. Driver contact permitted only by a long line wait where the famous guys are sitting in an airconditioned tent to sign autographs.
7. this is a big one..... Beer and Alchahol sponsors! This is my personal opinion but Alchahol has no business with automobiles LET alone auto racing. And deffenately has no business in drifting. To me drifters strive for complete control over a car.. anything that will hurt your control of the car has no business in the car or painted on the car.
8. Audience using the race as an escuse to drink and smoke, then climb back into the cars later to 'drive home'.
Yeah those things bug me, i dont want drifting to adopt them. Lets learn from other motorsports and adopt only the best attitudes. I mean besides those things the rest was cool, the audience deffenately were enthusiastic and the local guys and the more grassroots stuff was alot of fun.
Speaking of 'stock car' racing. They are racing Infenion right now. They will be drifting there in 2 weeks. Should be interesting. They dont tackle many road races so this should be a good change. The race is right now on fox if anyone is interested.
1. Famous Drivers limoed up to the cars that were parked by someone else on the race track waiting for them.
2. Painted on or decaled headlights.
3. Crowds cheering more for the horrible accident (it was bad, a car stopped then hit by another at about 90 miles an hour, i thought the guy was hurt bad) then the last second final corner pass that changed the race leader.
4.Tube Frame OHV Carberated RWD plexiglass cars referred to as a "2003 ford taurus"
5. Praying before a race over the loud speaker... I dont know why this bothers me so much, probably do to my religious beliefs (or there for lack of) if you want to pray thats fine.. but leading the whole audience in one. i dont know bugs me.
6. Drivers and Pits kept away from the fans. Driver contact permitted only by a long line wait where the famous guys are sitting in an airconditioned tent to sign autographs.
7. this is a big one..... Beer and Alchahol sponsors! This is my personal opinion but Alchahol has no business with automobiles LET alone auto racing. And deffenately has no business in drifting. To me drifters strive for complete control over a car.. anything that will hurt your control of the car has no business in the car or painted on the car.
8. Audience using the race as an escuse to drink and smoke, then climb back into the cars later to 'drive home'.
Yeah those things bug me, i dont want drifting to adopt them. Lets learn from other motorsports and adopt only the best attitudes. I mean besides those things the rest was cool, the audience deffenately were enthusiastic and the local guys and the more grassroots stuff was alot of fun.
Speaking of 'stock car' racing. They are racing Infenion right now. They will be drifting there in 2 weeks. Should be interesting. They dont tackle many road races so this should be a good change. The race is right now on fox if anyone is interested.
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