NASCAR Week! Who Watches Racing?

*sniff sniff* Can you smell it? Can you smell that awesome mixture of burnt rubber, BBQ sauce, gas fumes, smoke, & cheap beer? Can you hear the thunderous roar of forty-three engines, the snap of wind breaking, & thousands of fans chanting 'Junior, Junior, Junior!'? Can you feel it?

I can. It's time for the Daytona 500. It's time for NASCAR.

In honor of NASCAR season kicking off this Sunday with the prestigious 'Great American Race', I'll have themed stock car racing topics til Friday. A ton of yins will not like this, but maybe we can open your minds to racing, huh? NASCAR has the most diverse fan base of any sporting league. I've been to several tracks & have seen all demographics; men, women, whites, blacks, Hispanics, business people, rednecks (admittedly predominately), & once (at Richmond) a gay couple who held hands the entire four hundred laps (no one bothered them). At work (Sheetz), the regulars who know of my fandom share theirs with me. When I see them on Tuesday, we have a flash conservation about what happened Sunday.

NASCAR is for everybody . . . maybe even you. Why not give it a chance?