Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart went on a
sarcastic rant during a post race press conference at Talladega on Sunday in
which he basically insinuated that all NASCAR fans want to see are wrecks,
after numerous complaints from fans about boring racing this season, which, for
some really unexplained reason has seen fewer wrecks and cautions.
Now, it is
true that some fans of NASCAR really do enjoy seeing wrecks and that’s what
they tune in for. I don’t think that those fans are true fans of the sport or
motorsports, in general. But, I also think Stewart is being a somewhat of a jerk
in this situation, because the racing this season honestly has been boring.
It
hasn’t been boring because of the lack of wrecks, though; it’s been boring
because of the lack of close and side-by-side racing. Nobody wants to see the
leader have a 10 second lead over second place or win a race by multiple
seconds over second place.
It seems like we’re getting a lot of single file,
little passing for the lead racing this season in NASCAR and that is racing at
its most boring. If NASCAR fans really wanted to see follow the lead racing
then they probably would’ve tuned into Formula 1 racing many years ago.
NASCAR
is known for side-by-side, close quarters racing with beating and banging,
which I may add can be done without wrecking, but hasn’t seen much of that this
year. It really boils down to the lack of actual passing this season rather
than the lack of wrecks that has made NASCAR boring.
Fans who want to see
wrecks are wrong and idiotic, but Stewart insinuating that that’s all us fans
wants to see is just as wrong and idiotic.
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