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one2.34me:
I still think he owes for wrecking the Pennzoil Ford, but Matt Kenseth would be an improvement in Danica's car.
Also, Aric Amirola is leaving Petty with Smithfield Foods. I wonder who's going to sit in the King's 43?
https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2017/09/12/richard-petty-statement-on-smithfield-foods-decision-to-join-stewart-haas-racing/
dick1172762:
Not like the old days that's for sure. Every sponsor we had when I worked down south was done with a hand shake. Nobody tried to steal another teams sponsors or crew members. Cheat a little, yes but never stab someone in the back.
Srt:
[I'm not saying it doesn't take money to run Bonneville but it does seem to be one of the last motorsports that doesn't seem tainted by extracting money from fans.
http://www.saltflats.com/
dick1172762:
Watched my first rallycross yesterday and it was ok I guess but there were more race cars than people in the grandstands. Some of the drivers were from around the world. They put on a great show, but for who. All over the world auto racing is playing to fewer and fewer fans in the stands. F1 still has great crowds but more than 10 years ago. No way! F1 races are for the most part in country's where racing like the US is only seen on the tube. The people turn out in great numbers because it may be a year before they get to see another race. NASCAR stands are more and more empty. Very seldom do the people doing the tv report show the stands. NASCAR said not to I guess. NASCAR cars for 2018 look like their viewed through the bottom of a milk bottle. Sad days.
Wittsend:
You know Dick I see two things that are effecting NASCAR (and the like). Money and homogenized rules. The rules take away individual innovation and money has everyone paying a high price for the identical parts. No longer is it an individual creatively porting a cylinder head. Today everyone gets the same CNC ported piece. A level playing field makes for "follow the leader" racing. The cars no longer represent one similar you can buy at the dealer on Monday.
I use to be a big fan of NHRA Pro Stock back in the 70's. But as the cars basically developed into carbureted funny cars I lost interest. I went to the Winternational Warmups (whatever it was called) at Pomona a few years back The stock classes looked more like "Racing Classic Cars." FWD has basically pushed most modern cars out of the class. It's a changing world and I'm not sure how one deals with it. Staying the same can get old and changing make things "not what they use to be." Maybe these things have just run their course???
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