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Everything You Need To Know About NASCAR
What's
The Appeal of NASCAR? It's One of America’s Favorite Sports
NASCAR is an absolutely indisputably popular
sport today. Nobody seems to be able to fully elucidate what
it is about NASCAR that has turned it almost into a cult sport.
There are now so many NASCAR fans that they can never all gather
together for an event. Track stadiums are overflowing
for every race and tickets are not easy to come by unless one has connections
or is buying tickets a long time in advance. In addition to
watching the actual races, there is an incredible sub-culture
that goes along with being a true NASCAR fan. From listening
to every race on the scanner to attending tailgate parties
before and after the race, down to wearing the clothing and
having the screensavers of one’s favorite drivers. There are
no limits when it comes to being a true-blue NASCAR fan. No
extent of being a fan is in excess of taste or of possibility.
Just
what is it that is so incredibly appealing to Americans? There are a lot of possible reasons for which NASCAR has become
one of the most popular American sports, and one of these reasons
is the complexity of the system of racing and the vast array
of drivers, teams, events, and just about everything that is
NASCAR. Fans in one state can head to a nearby state to see
a race—they don’t have to travel to one central NASCAR spot.
These racetracks keep a semblance of local flavor and they
promote a sense of regionalism despite their global American
nature. The three series that make up the entirety of NASCAR
helps to keep things varied. What a fan doesn’t find satisfying
in one series might be satisfied by another element in another
series. If the Busch races just aren’t cutting it for somebody,
maybe the Craftsman Truck Series will appeal to those gaps
that were present previously.
The points system of NASCAR can keep new fans involved for
years trying to really get the hang of just what exactly is
happening when the points are tallied up after each race and
how wins versus poles contribute to the points. Points alone
can keep a fan busy for quite some time. Although it’s obviously
not true that the complexity of the system deters fans from
becoming further interested in the sport, it can be said that
the complexity draws fans into it because it is not so simple
that it’s boring. There’s a certain sense of wanting to master
a new system that goes along with the first exposures to the
points system. It seems that the system is just complex enough
to hold everyone’s interest without being so complicated to
push people away from learning it and utilizing it.
Fans of NASCAR love that at one moment their favorite driver
could be rated 8th and just 3 races later, they’ve moved up
to the 2nd or the 3rd spot. Nothing is set in stone in NASCAR,
and everything can be turned upside down in a matter of seconds.
This is, of course, one of the most exciting things about NASCAR,
and certainly one of the main appeals of the sport. Another
intricacy of the sport is that every driver is more or less
independent of the other drivers on his team. Of course, every
driver has an extensive support network that he relies on in
preparation for every race in addition to during the race itself,
but in NASCAR it’s possible to have two favorite drivers, one
that drives for Ford and one that drives for Chevy. Sounds
like a paradox, and in some ways it is, but what it all comes
down to is rooting for one driver or another, picking and choosing
one’s own team of favorites. That’s the true beauty of NASCAR.
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: 2008
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