02-20-2005, 01:34 PM | #1 | ||
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Daytona or Indy?
I'm by no means a NASCAR fan, but the radio sports station brought up a good point. They said that the Daytona 500 has surpased the the Indy 500 as the most popular race, due to NASCAR's seemingly nationwide popularity. It's certainly a lot easier for the average person to name 5 NASCAR drivers then any 5 on the Indy 500 circuit.
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02-20-2005, 01:41 PM | #2 |
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I agree its the most popular. When IRL & CART split the Indy 500 really lost alot. My dad wont watch Indy racing anymore despite growing up in Indianapolis. However he is sitting at the Daytona 500 right now.
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02-20-2005, 01:41 PM | #3 |
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I think autoracing is dumb, but I will watch the last 25 laps or so of the Daytona 500.
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02-20-2005, 01:53 PM | #4 |
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Tony George killed Indy and the open-wheel racing with his "IRL" joke series. Thankfully, ChampCar is looking good, but it won't be racing in Indy unless George gives up, merger, or some type of racing.
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02-20-2005, 02:34 PM | #5 |
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I prefer Nascar to Indy, atleast the cars sound like cars and not vaccum cleaners.
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02-20-2005, 03:46 PM | #6 |
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Indy died when Tony George fucked it up. It used to be my favorite and my dads, now we are strictly NASCAR watchers.
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02-20-2005, 03:54 PM | #7 |
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I perfer Milwaukee... the week after Indy
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02-20-2005, 04:06 PM | #8 |
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When I was young - we're talkin', like, 7 or 8 - I was a casual Indy fan. I couldn't name any of the drivers except for the Andrettis, but if I saw a race on TV, I'd watch it, which is more than I could ever say for NASCAR.
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02-20-2005, 05:32 PM | #9 | |
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02-20-2005, 05:51 PM | #10 |
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I used to love the Indy 500, but now the race is dead to me. To be honest with you, I would rather see the race cancelled than see it continue in the state it is in now.
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02-20-2005, 10:01 PM | #11 | ||
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02-20-2005, 10:05 PM | #12 |
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I too was a huge Indy 500 fan growing up in the 70s. Johnny Rutherford was a Ft. Worth boy, so it got a lot of attention.
Nowadays, IRL isn't even on my racing radar. I love F1, and was glad I got to see some races while I was living in Europe. CART is a close second, I try to make the races at Laguna Seca. And I do follow NASCAR, but I don't get into it as much as F1 and CART.
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02-20-2005, 10:10 PM | #13 | |
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02-20-2005, 10:12 PM | #14 |
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Definitely used to be an Indy fan, until George killed open-wheel racing in the US. I've been a fan of NASCAR since the days of Alan Kulwicki, but always preferred to watch the Unsers and Andrettis battle it out. I went to a number of Indy races at The Mile, and even one Busch series event (when they brought it back to The Mile in '93) where Jerry Glanville must have brought out at least a half-a-dozen caution flags by himself.
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02-20-2005, 10:15 PM | #15 |
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I remember being like 9 or 10, and watching those last few laps of that classic Scott Goodyear-AL Unser Jr. finish in Indy back in 92 or 93.
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02-23-2005, 11:25 PM | #17 |
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BRISTOL!!!
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02-23-2005, 11:29 PM | #18 |
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I was at the Cart race ihere in september. It seemed exciting but I really wasnt into it. It was close side by side racing but it just didnt feel rightr. I didnt know the drivers and Champ cars are just too fast. I enjoy stock car races better.
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