I have this feeling that...
Current NASCAR
I think we are in serious trouble, Tim.
If you missed this behind the scenes at Winston piece I wrote in 2012, it is still relevant:
http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/forum/topics/tobacco-cigarette-an...
Tim, this is where NASCAR really misss the Winston PR machine, who were experts at creating stars of the sport and at the same time publicizing mid-runners and backmarkers as well - something NASCAR has never been good at nor has Nextel/Sprint.
Hey, we have a real honest to goodness discussion going again here at RR! Does that mean that after all these years of dealing with NASCAR we have developed a nose for corruptipn?
The old axiom has never been truer - "Politics makes strange bed fellows."
The really ironic thing here is that while New York governor Cuomo has been spewing his vitriol against North Carolina and banning travel by New York employees to North Carolina, he has jumped in bed with DIRT, which last time I checked was a subsidiary of World Racing Group, firmly headquartered in the Tar Heel state in Concord, NC in the shadows of Charlotte Motor Speedway. How does the New York guv explain that?
And maybe while we're at it, we could have all of the North Carolina based NASCAR Cup teams skip the Watkins Glen August event and see how Governor Cuomo and his New York State lackies like that. Guess he could fill the field with DIRT cars and get one of those NASCAR E.I.R.I. special Talledega-like exceptions.