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In reply to the discussion: Huge car crash mars Nationwide Series race at Daytona [View all]Lugnut
(9,791 posts)67. NASCAR posts always bring out the broad-brushers.
A lot of NASCAR fans aren't beer swilling Confederate flag waving fans as some misguided people would like one to think. I'm more like the typical NASCAR fan I see here at Pocono Raceway, PA. I'm a great-granny senior citizen who's been a NASCAR fan since the 80s and I was born a liberal Democrat. I just like cars and I always have. On a clear Summer night I can hear the cars racing at a local bullring where Jimmy Spencer and his dad raced many decades ago.
I don't cheer for the wrecks and nobody I know does either. A lot of fans and some drivers were seriously injured today at Daytona. I'm holding good thoughts for them all.
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Well that's the important thing I guess. Screw whoever might have got killed.
JackRiddler
Feb 2013
#9
I have to agree with you that I do not get why people like to watch cars driving in a circle.
hrmjustin
Feb 2013
#19
exactly. these fools look at it from the perspective of someone commuting to work every day..
frylock
Feb 2013
#96
were you clutching your snuff box, looking down your nose on us unwashed masses..
frylock
Feb 2013
#91
I call it prattle, they speak as if we are imbeciles because we like cars
DainBramaged
Feb 2013
#120
That the drivers can often just walk away from those always astounds me. (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#7
'15 spectators transported to area hospitals; 1 on the way to surgery with head trauma' - ESPN
Baclava
Feb 2013
#16
"More often than not, we fail to see anything other than what we wish to see."
LanternWaste
Feb 2013
#129
It is very difficult to separate NASCAR culture from racist white male culture.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2013
#57
Wait, your assertion is that demographics should be based on anecdotal evidence?
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2013
#84
no, but i did. my point is that you're going to see that shit at many events in the south..
frylock
Feb 2013
#115
which would fit in with cannabis culture, it being generally leftwing and all.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2013
#117