Charlotte Goes No Smoking

Just heard a snippet on the 6:00 Charlotte television news:

In a sign of the times, Charlotte Motor Speedway has announced a new "No Smoking" policy at the Speedway, ZMax Dragway and the Dirt Track at CMS. Details to be forthcoming.

Quite a change for the track that hosted all but one of "The Winston" All Star races and even engaged in a fued with RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company when it erected Skoal advertising signs.

The days are gone forever when CMS featured races in series sponsored by Winston and Camel and had "Little Johnny" of Philip Morris as a Grand Marshal. We all knew this was coming I guess. Hard to imagine. Even though April will mark five years since I quit, some of my fondest memories of CMS involve races with cars carrying sponsorship from Skoal, Copenhagen, Chattanooga Chew, Winston, Camel, Levi-Garrett, Timberwolf, etc.

I think one of the late 50s/early 60s folk songs summed it up.... "The Times They Are A Changing."

yea that is kinda crazy all the money tobacco companies put in the sport that helped get racing where it is today and now they want allow smoking at these tracks i guess people like jd mcduffie dick trickle david pearson carl cigar horton chubby tompkins and red justice would no longer be wellcome

Rest in peace Ralph Seargraves. It is sad how Nascar has turned it's back on those that helped to pull the sport along. How I miss the weekly Winston racing series.

If they can enforce a smoking ban at a race track then the fans have changed as more than Nascar. And if that is the case then racing will never again be what it once was, or our country for that matter.

they got this one right - should have been done years ago .