raco2000 said it. NASCAR is an American icon, as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. I like it, for the same reasons I like American football and baseball. I just can't get into soccer or European football or Japanese baseball. [puke]

Who cares if stock cars aren't the fastest or have the most horsepower? If that's the criteria, then it's jet cars, hydrogen peroxide funny cars, and the Bonneville salt flats. Like many NASCAR fans, I've been watching it a long time, since the early 70s, when Richard Petty was the king and Darrell Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt were upstart rookies. As someone said above, it's the people, not just the machines. If no skill is required, then cross-over open-wheel drivers like A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti would have dominated in stock cars, wouldn't they? Don't get me wrong, they were great drivers, but they didn't win every stock car race they ever drove.

On the question of not using brakes, that's BS. What do you think they do, just coast through the turns? Anyone see the "footcams" during the Sears Point race yesterday? Cool. I know it was a road course but they race to the turns and brake on oval courses too.

Larry G, you suck. [-!-!-]