Fans don't understand racing?

david ring · 02-22-2011, 01:18 PM

I think the announcers, particularly people like Alan Reinhart and Leo Taugher, do a great job of announcing and explaining handicapped racing. But fans have got to be willing to listen and think as well. It didn't take me very long to understand comp, and then I was hooked, but I'm still working on the right strategy for comp-that may take forever! And I think the SS/Stk racers have gotten very strategic as well.

And with that new two-car drafting in NASCAR-those guys are going to get very strategic too. That kid on Sunday screwed up the conventional wisdom (if there can be conventional wisdom after only a week) that you are a sitting duck if you are out in front. Pretty soon, the only kind of racing without strategy will be the pros in drag racing-boring!

02-22-2011, 01:18 PM	#2
david ring Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Oneonta.,NY Posts: 889 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Fans don't understand racing? I think the announcers, particularly people like Alan Reinhart and Leo Taugher, do a great job of announcing and explaining handicapped racing. But fans have got to be willing to listen and think as well. It didn't take me very long to understand comp, and then I was hooked, but I'm still working on the right strategy for comp-that may take forever! And I think the SS/Stk racers have gotten very strategic as well. And with that new two-car drafting in NASCAR-those guys are going to get very strategic too. That kid on Sunday screwed up the conventional wisdom (if there can be conventional wisdom after only a week) that you are a sitting duck if you are out in front. Pretty soon, the only kind of racing without strategy will be the pros in drag racing-boring!