Re: alfa-digest V8 #888

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

I likewise concur.  As far as being embarrased to be an American goes, a 
buddy and I had a humorous and embarrassing conversation with an exchange 
student at the local high school (he's spending the summer in the USA too) 
who we met through our younger brothers.  We told him that we were going up 
to Mid-Ohio for the race last weekend and he gave us an awfully funny, 
almost scared look.  It eventually became apparent that he didn't know we 
had roadracing in the USA and he thought that we were going to some sort of 
oval race and suddenly lost a lot of respect for it.  And speaking of our 
little brothers, NASCAR, and exchange students, last year they gave a 
German kid a NASCAR shirt and told him he had to wear it on the plane on 
the way home.  We thought that was pretty hilarious, too.  But yeah, NASCAR 
sucks.  Maybe it's decent sport, in the sense that American football is (I 
know I'd rather watch grass grow), but from the perspective of a driver or 
an engineer, NASCAR isn't remotely interesting--it's not MOTORSPORT in the 
sense of what I'm looking for--neither the driving nor the technology is at 
all impressive.  (Yes, I'm sure it takes plenty of skill to be the fastest 
hick around the circle, but it doesn't look hard, hence my statement that 
it's not as impressive as touring cars, WRC, F1, etc).

--On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 2:53 PM -0400 alfa-digest 
<owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided> wrote:


> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:33:52 -0700
> From: "TJ" <tj@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: NASCAR SUCKS (nac)
>
> I completely, whole-heartedly, unabashedly, unreservedly and with
> uncommon passion, concur.
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