NASCAR fans get a better view

To the unenlightened, it might seem worse to actually be at a NASCAR race than to watch one on television. After all, at least you get to see the whole track on television. If you're in the stands you only see the cars when they drive by, or you're too high up in the stands to really make out anything. What these people don't understand is that real NASCAR fans use that downtime as "downtime" (as in, "downing more beer"). Really, it all works out in the end. Nevertheless, NASCAR, in association with Sprint Nextel and Kangaroo TV in Montreal, will begin renting handheld scanners to spectators called "FanView" that will offer views from inside seven different cars, and also allow fans to access racing stats. To echo what Lost Remote's Stephen Warley said, I'm no fan of NASCAR, but this is a pretty cool idea.