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Old 02-22-2011, 07:03 PM   #9
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Cool Re: Fans don't understand racing?

My generation (35 under ) for the most part have never been explained to how the "Class Racing " system works. Imagine my surprise the first time pops took me to bracket race!! Or how about the first time I didn't get the "W" light when I knew I was the first across the finish line. I think the avg American who watches TV needs the drama, but explain to them the drama of sitting @ the tree while your competior drives away from you then trying to run him down and win without breaking it out. They may be lazy couch potatoes, but explain to them what's going on. I have seen the few seconds of class racing they show on ESPN , and have had people @ work who really care nothing about class racing say "man did you see that Camaro jump off the ground on tv last night ?" I say the next time some one has a SS/STK race, someone take a video camara and a note pad take down names and rough car info and submit it to somehting like SPEED. I'll being willing to bet that if you put together a promo commerical for a pilot tv show that had several shots of big SS wheel stands or high winding small block stockers people would tune in. IMO just my .02
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