North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue signed a bill Tuesday at Charlotte Motor Speedway that makes NASCAR the state’s official sport. The bill was an idea that came from North Carolina elementary school students, who discovered that their state lacked an official sport. Really? Did it take this long to figure this out because they thought that there was something else going on in North Carolina? I wonder what the “Tar Heels” think about this? Or how about Duke basketball? Don’t get me wrong, I think its great that Nascar is now the official sport of the state that held its racing roots. I am just shocked that they didn’t have an official sport. As a matter of fact I wonder how many states have an official sport. I live in Illinois now and according to Wikipedia there doesn’t seem to be an official sport for my state. If I had to guess it would be “Attempting to put Governors is prison”. Just sayin.
Among those on hand for the signing were 2011 Hall of Fame inductees Bobby Allison and Ned Jarrett, current Sprint Cup Series driver David Ragan, and the students who originated the bill. “Sometimes it takes really bright kids to tell all of us grown-ups what we ought to be doing,” Perdue said. “And that’s what these students are about today.” The students had worked over a year to get the bill passed. According to a Charlotte Motor Speedway release, the motorsports industry employs nearly 20,000 people in the Charlotte, N.C. region.
in other news Dover Motorsports Group announced that it is going to move it’s spring race back to it’s original June setting due to soft attendance at it’s recent spring race. I have news for them, it had nothing to do with the date and everything to do with the poor way they manage their race track properties. Dover Motorsports Group has not dropped ticket prices on any races that I know of and in light of this awful economy that is just plain stupidity. They have lost touch with the fan bases at their only two remaining facilities, Dover and Nashville, and fans are trying to tell them about it through lack of ticket sales. I don’t know who is in charge up in there but they must be completely ignorant or just so in debt that they have no choice. They already had to sell Memphis Motorsports park and last year shut down Gateway in my back yard, what is next to get the axe? Nashville? Dover itself? Somebody up there in Dover needs to wake up and smell the coffee because they truly are not getting the message. They can try all they want to blame the rain or lack of it, on the weathermen up there but I’ll tell you this much had there been no threat of rain at all you would have still seen the same empty grandstands.
This weekend Nascar heads out to wine country. Running at Infinion raceway, a road course that,,well I think is a wasted race date. I’ll make no bones about it, I think road course racing in Nascar is just plain boring and I will be looking at something else to do besides watch a freight train of stock cars chase each other around a road course. I would however love to go out there to see wine country and all that it entails. I imagine there are some really nice places to eat up there as well as the great vineyards. As far as stock car racing goes up there it might be cool to see it live, sort of walk the course and watch it from different turns but it is really boring to watch it on television. If I had to pick a driver to win out there this weekend it would be Carl Edwards. Maybe I would go with Juan Pablo Montoya or Jeff Gordon. Carl seems to take to road courses like a duck to water and Juan came to Nascar from a racing dicipline that predominantly ran road courses. I would however stay away from the road course ringers like Patrick Carpentier and Boris Said due to the fact that these so called road course ringers have not done well for the most part when it comes to Nascar. I hope you all enjoy the racing this weekend including the Nationwide race at Road America in Elkhart Lake Wisconson. I will be working in my garden or watching a movie. its just not my cup of tea.
Stay safe out there.
TW
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