8 Things You Didn’t Know About NASCAR

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1. If you lined every corporate logo from a typical NASCAR race up end-to-end, the resulting chain would stretch from the Earth to the moon and almost halfway back.

2. Every NASCAR driver makes use of all the products he endorses. So keep sending Jeff Gordon letters asking him if he uses Depends. (A moment of silence over the loss of Beaudroux’s Buttpaste as a NASCAR sponsor)

3. The National NASCAR Museum in Charlotte, NC features dozens of interactive exhibits on the history of the sport, including a working moonshine still.

4. Though traditionally associated with white-trash meth addicts, NASCAR has recently begun to attract fans from all walks of life including pandering politicians, disaffected loners, impressionable children, confused Azheimer’s victims and recently refugees from a carnival’s bottle toss game.

5. NASCAR drivers are allowed no more than three coconuts in their car at any one time. The penalty for carrying excess coconuts is $3.76.

6. Many NASCAR drivers suffer extreme depression when they realize they have been driving for three hours only to end up where they started. NASCAR drivers often seek professional help (image above: Pacman, the official psychologist of NASCAR. Familiar with pointlessly racing in a circle with no end in sight. ).

7. NASCAR is the second to last on the list of cool sports right above curling and right below bobbing for apples.

8. Nascar is the only sport known to have a man, and the occasional woman, take a crap and piss at the same time whilst going 200 miles per hour.


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3 Responses to “ 8 Things You Didn’t Know About NASCAR ”

  1. marc, I see you have another beautiful single seater on the header, details & history please?

  2. It was actually #60 and sat on the 1968 Indy 500 pole with Joe Leonard at the wheel.

    It was a 4WD Lotus powered by a Pratt & Whitney (aircraft) turbine. Here is a history of Leonards and teammates Art Pollards car.

    In actuality this image follows the general lines of the original but has many differences.

  3. Is that the same 4WD Lotus that chap crashed & killed himself in at the Goodwood Festival a few years back. After that they stopped doing the timed runs, I always thought it was a bit risky having non pro’s pushing the performance of gear that challenged the likes of Graham Hill, Mario Andretti in their day.

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