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Entry #493547, added on 03-08-07 @ 8:05 pm EST.
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Waiting for something to happen...
Another slow week on the NASCAR scene...ah well. The most interesting thing out there is Tony Steward complaining about the new configuration of Vegas. It is something to talk about, but it's still a track. A bit like the 'it's still a racecar' perspective that some of the drivers maintain about the COT.
The banks are higher, the pavement is 'grippier', the tires are harder and the speeds are astronomical. Yes, it is undoubtedly going to be a wild ride with some high speed wrecks that will grab the TV fan's attention and the racers wish never happened. Hopefully the fans at the track will not be leaving after 300 miles when the leader thats been leading for 200 miles is seconds ahead of the pack. Hopefully the TV fan will not be looking for a basketball game when they've listened to one too many clever phrases from the desperate commentators.
Let's face it. Vegas has been a boring race to watch. While the flat track provided a different kind of challenge to the drivers and teams, it just didn't generate the kind of racing that sells tickets and raises ratings. That's why LVMS did it. That's why they ripped the whole thing up and started over.
While the practical side of me has to agree with Tony that this will probably be the kind of race NASCAR doesn't like to see as far as possible bodily harm, I have got to admit that it will probably generate the kind of interest that this newer facility needs to have in order to survive.
Yes, survive. These tracks only manage to stay in the black when they fill up the stands for all of the big dates. LVMS has a scant handful of big ticket races to sell...and if all the season ticket holders were going to see was a strung out line of cars never meeting bumpers, renewals would eventually dwindle. And that means even a brand new shiny track could go the way of Rockingham...
Well, anyway, I guess that's enough said. Let's hope the action at the track will provide more fodder for our brains to chew on this weekend.
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