The below posted article was written and this suggestion made a couple of weekends ago while the NEXTEL Cup Series was taking the weekend off. I am angered for many reasons. Primarily, because I am a NASCAR fan. I am NOT a fan of their form of racing, not in the least bit. I realize I am a good bit older than most around here, such being the case, my history with the sport goes back a good bit farther, not bragging about that, just lucky enough to have been born to parents that were racing fans and following NASCAR while it was in it's early days, so I got to attend a lot of the races back in the day and got to see a lot of the history of NASCAR unfold before my eyes.
Being from the South, and PROUD of it, I was (and still am) always annoyed by fans, drivers, owners and teams of first, the AAA, then USAC, (the old USAC back in the old days, today it is a completely different organization with regards to it's attitude toward NASCAR and NASCAR fans) then cart and finally this thing called irl. I lived through countless years of being told by fans, drivers, team owners, etc of that form of racing that NASCAR drivers were inferior, that we (NASCAR fans) were/are not "real" race fans, that stock cars are not "real" race cars and that what we love, stock car racing, is not "real" racing! I also have for years been sick and tired of the insults and personal attacks thrown at NASCAR fans, being called stupid, dumb, uneducated, ignorant, inbred, trailer park trash and a lot worse. I also have gotten sick of the names that they're constantly deriviously calling NASCAR racing, equipment and the organization itself, such as NASCrap, taxicabs, taxi cab racing, NASCab and other such denigrating garbage. To put it mildly, I have grown to HATE their form of racing and many of them, i.e. open-wheel fans as well!
As I got older and began to travel (due to being in the armed forces) throughout the country, I ran into more of them. I had, had exposure to them previously at Daytona and other race tracks, where they openly insulted NASCAR, my home (the South) and everything else in general. On three seperate occasion, I had open-wheel jerks take a swing at me for the sole reason that I was a NASCAR fan and did not agree with their B/S open-wheel superiority, not a wise thing to do on their parts, as during the time that each incident happened, I was an active duty Marine and they wound up being used as something to swab the decks with!
These same arrogant, hateful individuals have basically destroyed their sport, through their hatred of each other, split it into two seperate camps that hate each other with an intensity that is only surpassed by their hatred of NASCAR. They blame NASCAR for the problems that they, themselves caused their sport. I have not ever bought the absolute nonsense about their race in May being the biggest/greatest thing in all of motorsports. I grew up during the 50s, and 60s and where I'm from, it was not even a blip on the radar screen. It meant nothing to us back then and still means nothing to us today! NASCAR has always and will always rule here in the South. Yet, every time, whether on the net, or in person, when we were/are trying to discuss NASCAR, these same arrogant, assinine Indy fans would attempt to shout us down with their constant bleeting of "INDY, INDY, INDY" "It's all about Indy". NO it is NOT "all about Indy" it was not back then, is not now and will not every be "all about Indy", in fact it is about everything else but Indy!
That form of racing has not ever done anything for NASCAR or for NASCAR fans. They have tried to kill off NASCAR, the owner of that track, back in the 50s, threw Bill France Sr off the property of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the crime of asking if a NASCAR race could be run there. I take great pleasure in the fact that now, NASCAR not only races at that track, but has forced the owners of it to place an artificial cap, ceiling on the number of NASCAR fans allowed to buy tickets to the Brickyard 400, so that it can't draw more fans than their race and I also love the fact that their big race and series are in a "death spiral"!
"Big Bill" France has to be looking down from up in Heaven and smiling over this one, sweet poetic justice!
It's bad enough that this lame excuse of a racing series is a leech/parasite on NASCAR fans at the tracks at Chicagoland and Kansas City. NASCAR fans should not be forced to buy tickets to this series races/prop-up this series as they have to at these two tracks, because the only way you can purchase NASCAR tickets at these two tracks is to have to purchase their tickets as well. Tickets to seperate events are not sold at either place! Therefore, unless someone either sells me a NASCAR ticket, or give me one to the races at either track, I will not ever attend a race at either track, barring a change in their policy of holding NASCAR tickets hostage through forced purchase of those other series tickets!
Now this Barnes jerk want to force their entire racing schedule down the throats of NASCAR fans!
Wants to replace the Busch Series and/or Craftsman Truck Series, or ARCA Series Saturday races at NASCAR tracks with the races of his lame excuse of a racing series!
The problem is this, the above mentioned tracks, Chicagoland and Kansas City cannot sell enough tickets for those two races to make a profit, so in order to do so, they have had to resort to forcing NASCAR fans to buy these tickets to races that they do not care for and have no desire to attend! Proof that they don't want these ticket is the fact that many wind up in the dumpsters or on the ground at these tracks or attempting to be sold on ebay and other similar venues, where they can't even get face value for them! If this stupid plan were ever to be enacted, after the first race or two, when they don't draw flies passes, they will go to the forced ticket buy policies in practice at Kansas City and Chicagoland as that is the only way that they can avoid losing money on these lame races! Tickets are expensive enough as it is, without being forced to buy tickets to races of a form or racing that is largely rejected by NASCAR fans!
Plain and simple fact, this individual, Barnes, and the rest of that series do not have the interest of NASCAR fans as their primary goal. The only thing thing that they hope to benefit is their own form of racing! They have not ever don't anything to help NASCAR or NASCAR fans and do not ever intend too! Notice the arrogance, that I mentioned above, coming from this jerk,
"I just want to get in front of their fans and show them what
real racing is all about." Or in other words, as mentioned above, "Your racing isn't "real" racing." "What you watch for racing sucks, you need to watch ours!"
I don't appreciate the way this arrogant individual looks down his nose at us (NASCAR and NASCAR fans). He wants to shove his form of racing and races down our throats, IMO, he can take his form or racing, his racing series and his races and shove it somewhere else!
My feeling, personally, is that every true NASCAR fan needs to write or email this individual and tell him "NO, we do not want your races and form of racing replacing the Saturday Busch Series and/or Craftsman Truck Series or ARCA races." "You need to go find your own fans and stop trying to shove your racing series and it's races down our throats!" I have a link where emails can be sent, if anyone else feels like I do and wants to experss it, let me kinow and I will provide the link to you. Sorry for the rant, but this really just does not sit well with me. Have a great evening everyone. Here is the article:
Owner Wants Indy-NASCAR Event
ST. PETERSBURG - One of the Indy Racing League's longtime team owners is pushing the idea of IRL-NASCAR Nextel Cup combined events.
John Barnes, an owner and the general manager of Panther Racing, thinks that even if the IRL event was positioned as a support race, Indy-style racing would benefit.
"We would make it where we would race on Saturday to replace a Busch or ARCA race, and they would race on Sunday," he said. "I have no problem being second fiddle to them, I just want to get in front of their fans and show them what real racing is all about."
Terry Angstadt, the IRL's new president of its commercial division, said the IRL would not allow itself to be presented as a support race.
"We would love to make our series better, and we will open the thought waves of doing that," he said. "But at the same time, I think we are a tier one series, and certainly it would be hard to argue that the Indianapolis 500 is not a cornerstone event, if not the premier motor sports event in the world."
Barnes believes running IRL and Nextel Cup races together would open the door to NASCAR drivers running some Indy car races. That seems a long shot, though, since NASCAR team owners often have a say in what other forms of racing their drivers participate in.
It also seems unlikely that NASCAR would be interested in such a combined event since it already runs either a Busch series or Craftsman Truck race or both in conjunction with most Nextel Cup events.
Does this make any of you as angry as it makes me?
post that link please
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