I'm not a huge NASCAR fan but if I have time and its on TV I'll watch a bit.

My favorite racer(s) Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch. Why? Because they're jerks. Being a jerk is hard work, trust me I know. Most of the time people don't like you and who wants that? I think one of the biggest problems with road racing in the US, no one wants to be controversial or speak their mind. Even NASCAR tries to shut these guys up and make them play nice. But, its clever. Without the bad guy there is no hero, or interesting story.

Without these guys calling people names, insulting their team, or wrecking some guy out on the cool down lap, I'm not as interested. To me hockey without the fights isn't worth watching. And here is another secret about NASCAR, there is a lot of engineering and go fast in those cars. They try to hill-billy it up with a bunch of lingo but these guys are all pretty clever like it or not. Now we'll be at Rockingham in two weeks, and you can say they just drive around in a circle. Well I've driven 3/4 of a circle at 125 mph 3 wide and its enough to pucker you up. At 200 mph in a pack of 30 cars 2 and 3 wide for 3 hours, that is some hard work.

And Stewart is from Indiana too. So don't be afraid to root for the bad guy!

Labels: Bad Attitude, NASCAR