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CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS TO RUN GREENVILLE-PICKENS IN 2013

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Would there be an NFL if they said "we no longer want to present ourselves as a pro sport series, rather we want to make the NFL go back to the roots of football and play at small high school stadiums"? NASCAR wants to "get back to it's roots", well, guess what, those roots still exist out there....every short track around the country. NASCAR is not grass roots, it is pro sports. If NASCAR goes back to grass roots racing then who becomes the professional racing series? It makes no more sense for NASCAR to no longer want to be a professional sports series than it does for the NFL to no longer want to be a professional sport and to go back to playing at high school stadiums in small towns. What it comes down to is there are already grass roots in all sports, and there are pro series. When has any pro series ever said we no longer want to present ourselves as a professional series and we now want to make ourselves grass roots again....? Fans watch NASCAR, the NFL, the NBA because they want to see the big show, the pros in bigger than life events, the spectacle, the huge stadiums and tracks, etc. So again, I guess if this works, the NFL can improve itself by playing it's games at small town football stadiums. I don't think the NFL would ever lower its standing as the premiere football league by saying we no longer want to continue moving upward as a pro series, rather we want to go backwards and go back to where we all used to play when we were kids......

CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS TO RUN GREENVILLE-PICKENS IN 2013

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As a NASCAR team owner I can say it is the general opinion of Camping World Truck Series owners absolutely not! Grass roots racing is just that. If you want grass roots racing get a late model and go to your local short track. NASCAR is professional sports. Do you hear the NFL talking about playing at local high school football stadiums in order to "get back to their roots"? Of course not. Pro sports is pro sports, amateur sports is amateur sports. Part of the draw of pro sports is the bigger than life stadiums and events. Heat races in series with more expensive race cars is a good way to tear up expensive equipment. Heat races will kill the truck series because it will cost the competitors so much more. It cost a lot more in wear and tear on the very expensive engines, more tires because you burn up a set in a heat race that you other wise would have been able to keep the qualifying tires (2 laps) for use in the main race, and more damage. Also, heat races open up an element of chance in that it is a good opportunity for a top team to get taken out in a wreck not of their involvement. At that level of racing, qualifying is a much cleaner, less expensive, and fairer method of setting the field. It all comes down to "it's good to bring NASCAR back to it's roots"....all that means is making a pro sport seem more like the amateur levels. The Camping World Truck Series is a professional series which allows drivers and teams to gain experience on the bigger 1.5 mile tracks they will be racing on in Nationwide and Cup. If you want to see heat races, short track races, and dirt races...go to your local short track. Of course if this model works, I guess the NFL can learn and follow suit and start holding NFL games in local high school football stadiums.....would that make any sense?