Tuesday, February 19, 2008

boogity boogity boogity



i'm a nascar junkie. i love watching cars make left hand turns for hours. i love the sound of the engines, the smell of the burning rubber, and the excitement of banging sheet metal. and yes, i realize this makes me slightly less than normal.


it all started 4 years ago. prior to, i would have laughed at nascar fans. i had roommates in college who loved this stuff, but i didn't get it. cars...in circles...for hours...WHAT? then i moved to a town 10 minutes from Michigan International Speedway, where everyone loved nascar, and so i began to watch, and was intrigued. i didn't cheer for anyone in particular (except maybe against jeff gordon, no one really liked him), but was rather enamored by the crashes...sheet metal, and tires, and smoke, and flaming tempers! yeah, this is what i'm talking about!


eventually i picked a driver, and began to cheer, and before too long, i was hooked. i became a member of junior nation (of which i no longer belong), i watched all the races (and btw, if TNT or ESPN or NASCAR happens to read this, i think it sucks and is poor business to only show half the races on network TV). then, the golden opportunity...tickets to a race. i've always wanted to go to bristol or talladega or daytona, get the real southern nascar experience, but indianapolis isn't that far off. for being a mecca for open wheel racing, nascar is right at home.


i've been to 2 brickyard 400's, and even got to see my favorite driver win one year. there is nothing quite like hearing or seeing the cars come off the front stretch, reeving with high pitched excitement, neatly filed in military type rows, smelling the exhaust of a finely tuned racing machine, and being covered in flecks of black rubber at the end of the day...aaahhhh...i can't wait to go back.

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