Hey Shadow, thanks for going along with me on that post, BUT it wasn't my post.
Hey DB71, miss seeing that spectacular car of yours on a regular basis.
Ill go along with DB1 on that too. 😉
Who gets the to see the videos?
People that have signed up for the new's letter and people that have signed up for Utube videos from DS.
Thoses are the people that need to be put in the seats they are likely all ready there.
To me it's still glorifying the worst.
Who remembers the night of the word "CATASTROPHIC"
Who remembers the night of the word "CATASTROPHIC"
lol...it was Crazylady that kept saying that. She was wishing the announces would use that word more often I think.
But really, its just the way it is. I had a respected competitor tell me one time that he thought that stuff like chaos racing and train races etc, were "demeaning" to motorsports. Buit I disagree wholeheartedly. fri/Sat night racing is at its best when it is utterly devoid of pretense. (something the dirt guys seem to have figured out, but the asphalt guys are still working on) And putting crashes on the highlight reels is a part of that.
But I can see how the guys doing and paying for the fixing can feel put out about glorifying crashes. Unfortunately, somehwere along the line, even lower tier racing got expensive.
I love watching races from the stands and from inside my car. The worst kind of racing is when cars are spaced out by 2 cars lengths evenly around the track, usually in heats or in non stop features. If that was the norm our sport would be dead. Fans want to have heros, racers they can cheer for week after week, but what they want most of all is entertainment, that's why they support us...racers want to win, but all of us need to be reminded that we need to put on a show as we go for the win. What should that show look like?
To me it's simple...hard racing? Wrecking happens, but many times it's unnecessary. When two, three or four cars are fighting for the win, that's an awesome show. I don't believe a fan has to see someone wreck a $50k race car to be satisfied. There are some who might feel the night was a dud because someone didn't slam the wall, but those kinds of wrecks are hardly exciting. It was in the 50's and 60's, even until the late 70's that we'd see roll overs almost weekly. That was exciting because everyone was scared, but once the racer climbed out of his car the fans went wild cheering for him.
Today the cars are a thousand times more sofisiticated and the only wrecks are bouncing off walls, slamming into walls or into other race cars. Most fans find those annoying because all it did was slow the show down, but those are the wrecks you get on short track racing, and all they offer is an expensive night for a race team.
Side by side, and multi car battles are what make a show exciting from the stands or from inside the car. I have often got excited when two cars were battling for the lead and I was right there waiting for something to happen. As the race goes and these the times slow down others catch up and next thing I know I've got company and the intensity goes way up. It's exciting and many times after the races you'll hear the racers say "the fans must have loved that one". I'm guessing if we think it was a boring race, the fans agreed, and vice versa.
How many drivers, who've been in a hard fought race, but because they didn't win it, didn't appreciate the show they just put on? They should be praising each other for a good race, and if a new driver got to the winners cirlcle congratulate them. I hope sooner than later all racers realize our main purpose is to entertain the fans by and represent our sponsors as ambassadors.
Ahh...the voice of experience....thanks for that Gary!
Somehow 70 snuck up on me, but I'm still the 35 year old when watching an oval race. NO wrecks please....most all drivers are on a shoestring budget and if the car is hurt bad may not be back for weeks...or even the season, and we all love to see those high car counts. Rubbing and "bump and run" are exciting and usually leads to controlled retaliation, and as long as everyone understands this,its the greatest racing that Delaware has seen in a long time.