We are giving away free copies of iPit!!! To get your free copy, email Apps@200mphDesigns.com
You will get a coupon redeemable on the iTunes store for a free download of iPit. You must have an iPhone or iPod Touch to play this game.

Old car, new car, same results at Auto Club Speedway By- Sharon Bundy

Welcome to InsideThePitBox.com!! Check out ALL our sections and features here!! There is plenty to keep you busy on our main page! Printer Friendly Version Here  No matter the car, no matter the time of year, the results are still the same. A sleeper of a race at Auto Club Speedway. There isn't any amount of hype, glitz, and glamour to hide the fact that races at Fontana just don't work. It doesn't mean it can't, but in it's present form it simply is not a track worthy of what it has.   I get the need by NASCAR to be in a large media market such as Los Angeles, but the sport and the track have to give the fans something to get excited over. But rather than focus on the racing, Gillian Zucker adds amenities and pays D-list celebrities such as Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt to show up. Who really cares about them? They do not add a thing to the race weekend. Racing should be the focus. Sell the racing, not the Hollywood elite.   From the get-go of this race weekend how it all played out left me wondering what in world were they thinking and how out of touch the powers that be really are. Did we really need an invocation and singing of the National Anthem to kick off qualifying? It further signals to me that Gillian and Co. are out of touch. Yes, race fans are all about tradition, we love pomp and circumstance for the main event. But the actual race is the main event, not Pole day. The best way to bring fans in, get them excited about racing is to improve the quality of racing we see.  Auto Club Speedway needs to fix it's track. NASCAR needs to fix the new car.   More times than not we have witnessed the kind of racing we saw at Auto Club Speedway at most every track. A car is just so dominate no matter who it is out front, the competition cannot keep up. Mysterious debris cautions to bunch the field up do little to add excitement and drama to the race.  So for as much as we can blame the Fontana track for awful races, across the board this is a problem. The problem lies with the new car, it just isn't living up to the promise of better racing that NASCAR said it would provide. The Auto Club Speedway is also to blame for bad racing, but just like the new car, it can be fixed if someone is willing to make that change. Until then, no one will understand why this track has two dates. Race fans will stay away like they already do. No amount of Hollywood glitz can bring race fans in. The race itself dictates the interest a fan has. Better racing will bring the fans in, not the circus side show the tracks use to distract the faithful from the awful spectacle we are seeing this season. Sharon@insidethepitbox.com Printer Friendly Version Here

Want to comment on this article??

Click Here for a Message board or fill out the form below!

Your e-mail address-:

FeedBack:


Your name:

Thanks for visiting InsideThePitBox.com!!
Check out ALL our sections and features here!!
There is plenty to keep you busy on our main page!

(Editors Note:The views and opinions of our writers are just that, theirs. If you have comments, write to them. We take no responsibility for their articles... Do you blame us?)

Article archives

Return to the Main Page
Copyright © 2001-2010 InsideThePitBox.com,LLC
All Rights reserved
755