Melissa Writes

My lovely followers, no matter how few you are, please sit back while I rip at Nascar for a moment. Feel free to leave your comments below if you have any rants you want to add.

Nascar, first I want to tell you that I  love you.  Ok, well it’s more in like with you lately.  See you’ve made me mad. I don’t love things I’m mad at.

I’m not your demographic, I know.  I’m your target age 29, I’m your target sex female, but I’m not someone who was drawn to the sport by Dale Sr.’s death.  Nope I’d been watching long before that.  September of 1979, do the math, I’ve watched since birth.  I’m not a white collar girl, not here, blue collar all the way.  My favorite drivers weren’t picked by how cute they are or how well they fill out the uniform.  I’m sure I’ve got what you would call redneck tendencies.  You want to disown us, we don’t bring you enough money.  That doesn’t matter to me, it’s still a sport near to my heart.

Cookie cutter tracks suck!  It’s not good racing.  Darlington and The Rock provided better racing then Kansas and Las Vegas ever could.  I live an hour from Kansas Speedway and have been there once.  I’d much rather nap in my air conditioned house then in the stands.

You’ve forgotten your roots.  I understand the sport had to grow out of just the south.  Growth can only keep happening when you don’t cut your roots off.  You start killing all the tradition in Nascar and you alienate your core.  See those blue collar people who were fans before 2001, they are the ones who will drive all over the country to watch the races.  For the white collar crowd you are just a status symbol.  Nascar is their new country club, soon that will wear off and they won’t want you anymore.

You hide your head in the sand.  That’s right Nascar your head is stuck in the sand.  For whatever reason you don’t want to see the problems that you have.  Your first step will be to admit you have problems.  Not sure what they are?  Let me help.

Punks are taking over the sport.  Remember back in 2001 when Kevin Harvick came in and thought he was too cool for school?  You sat his butt, the vets kicked his butt, and now he’s not a punk anymore.  His head is on straight and he is a pretty decent guy on the track.  You need to let that happen to some of the new guys.  Punks aren’t fun to watch or listen to.  It’s bad when you hear almost every race, “Well, I’m just that much better than everyone else.”  Guess what it turns some of us off.

You have a drug problem.  I know you don’t want to hear that, but you do. You’ve had it for years, it’s not new.  Remember Tim Richmond?  Yeah, I know you thought everyone else had forgotten about it too.  You’ve kicked a few out, but you haven’t done anything to help them.  The problem doesn’t go away if you wash your hands of them.  You are supposed to be a family, family members help each other.  Get them into a program, get them some counseling, do something, something is better than nothing.  You are busting lower rung people.  You want me to believe that if the Aaron Fike’s of the sport are scoring some drugs, that you don’t have upper tier drivers doing the same thing?  Please, give me a break.  You want to wake someone up?  Bust some of the big names.  I know you know who they are.  Do it, set some precedence.  

Nascar the ball is in your court now, what are you going to do with it?