Watching NASCAR, one with more than a double-digit IQ realizes it has nothing to do with motor racing. It is a circle jerk. For those of us who grew up watching Formula One, World Championship Rally and Le Mans, NASCAR is an abomination. It is not a sport. It is several hundred infomercials wrapped up in one big pasteurized, dumbed-down, unsophisticated, low-tech, low-talent, pointless, jingoistic, bore-fest. It is a shame most American today will never know the pure spectacle that is road racing. They are numbed by this trite, ill-conceived, greed-driven, mish-mash of cars.. where only the last two or three laps matter. NASCAR also has byzantine scoring system that rewards failure, the cars still use carbuerators (I had to look up that word, it is so fossilized) and has a ridiculous end-of-season "playoff" post-season. The NFL (a once great sport) is becoming the same homogenized crap - thanks to greed- but that is for another day.

just to clarify, the last race ON FOX is this Sunday, the 2nd half of the racing season will be on NBC. DRTFA