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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
dover was much more fun back when it held 1/2 the people and was blacktop. pocono is a hole.
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QFT. Went to my first race in 1994. the tickets were 35 ea. and it was on a WOODEN grand stand in the third turn. Mark Martin was 5 laps from winning it till a tire got cut down.
The coolest thing back then was the drivers ( or most of them) didn't take a helicopter to leave ,they literally drove out of the track and walked over the walkway. I met Sterlin Marlin, Morgan Shepard, Matt Kenseth ( the first year with Roush) and even Ray Everham, which a few days later he announced he was done with Hendricks ( Gordon was doing terrible)and many others, but that doesn't happen anymore, and between the price of gas, parking fee, tolls, and food/beverages, and especially the ****tiest traffic pattern when leaving doen't equate to watching it on TV anymore. For the price of one ticket I can pay my monthly cable bill.....
I seen Mark Martin win it three years in a row ( I went to the September races) and my life was complete up to that point lol, but I ccame to see what I wanted, and now that he's older ,and doesn't have AS much of a chance to win anymore, it's not worth it to go. and with 100,000 swarming the damn place, it's just too much anymore.
Here's how long ago NASCAR was fun. In 1995, Rusty Wallace was in South Jersey signing autographs in a firehouse, in 1996 I met Mark Martin at a car show in Ft. Washington Expo center.....on a school day. The line probably had about 40 people in it, and they gave you a ticket to stand in line, but since there wasen't as many people, my father and me just kept getting back in line, a total of 10 times, and just about everything I was carrying and wearing had ink that he plastered on me lol. And in 96-97 I met Hut Stricklin at the Circuit City when it was at the Shore Mall. It wasn't even a grand opening!!!
Try finding drivers that do that today.....