What do NASCAR Fans Want?
What do NASCAR fans want? Not your average (Normal?) fan, I speak of the fan base that only sees a half empty glass.
They see phantom yellow flags and grand conspiracies involving favoritism in the way rule violations are handled. The want the Southern 500, the real one, not the simulated one on this years schedule.
They want Dale Earnhardt Jr. to either win 10 races per year, every year. Or they want him to quietly pack his bags and go away because he’s “vastly overrated.”
They want Fontana to go away, or at least lose one of its two events. This despite the reality the Land of Fruits and Nuts is the largest market in the U.S. and the largest marketeers in NASCAR would seriously consider NASCAR not being the place they want to be any longer.
Many want Brian France to go away. Others want the CoT to go away, or Toyota no matter whether it be the CoT or the old version. Still others want Sprint Cup drivers to go away from the Nationwide Series.
Then come a special breed of NASCAR fans. Special defined as riders of Short Wheelbase Buses.
Yesterday’s announcement of an American based Formula One team (USF1), along with the naming of Kyle Busch on a not-so short list of potential drivers has given them “hope” they would be rid of The Most Hated One.
That hope has turned into activism, activism in the form of an online petition. (that will go unlinked)
The petition reads as follows:
To: USF1
We, the fans, do cordially request that USF1 hire Kyle Busch to drive for their Formula 1 team and take him away from all things NASCAR.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
As I write this the “undersigned” number 34 people. That’s not an entirely insignificant number, according the pages data the petition was only created today.
But it is insignificant given the powers that be at USF1 would in all likelihood have an acute case of stomach distress immediately proceeded by uncontrollable spasms of laughter if they were ever forwarded the petition.
All that assumes the creator of the petition is smart enough to locate a proper address to send it too. It also presumes the creator didn’t “Have to Much to Dream Last Night“.
Or drink.
UPDATE: Clance, proprietor of The Church of the Great Oval (Blog) and Social Network has done the legwork and discovered the person behind the petition is none other than a member of Clance’s Social Network.
Actually, now a former member after taking great pains to note she was appalled at being called out for posting the petition.
A petition she claimed was all a “joke,” and meant to be “private” for her Facebook friends only. The only thing appalling is her complete and utter ignorance of what an online presence can lead to. Nothing is “private,” and that’s especially true when one of her so-called Facebook friends ratted her out and this was released into the wild.
An even bigger joke was her taking exception to some people reposting her petition’s content and words without “her permission.”
The term “Fair Use,” as it relates to Copyright law is obviously waaaay over her head to understand.
Man, you sure take this twit to the woodshed. I can understand your ire at the amount of half-informed, over-emotional, unbalanced opinion about motorsports is expressed in the blogoshere — and you are quite right — but I can’t see this silly petition as something on the low level of actual nastiness some folks feel free to express in the safe confines of their anonymous keyboards. (Didn’t you get blasted recently by someone who took great offense at your coverage of an African American?) Gresham’s Law states that good always rises to the top, and I think the serious NASCAR bloggers have enough of the professional journalist in them to distinguish good stuff from fluff or flame. From my own experience, I know that the risk of being misunderstood — and attacked — is great in a medium where there is an illusion of intiimacy (print journalists assume none of that). Hey, didn’t ya get my joke? I just don’t see this incident as exemplary of the blogosphere’s worst. This could be just a case of mistaken emoticons. Maybe someone has to police the ranks, but it’s different when most of this do this for nothing and receive the most fleeting attention. But you obviously have fought these battles longer.
OS I get blasted all the time, but very rarely is it based on fact, it’s almost exclusively based on misguided opinions based on out and out falsehoods.
A good example is the recent bruhaha over Junior at Daytona. Some nitwit failed to have a reading comprehension at a sufficient level to know what was written and THEN posted their comment on a post that was a year old vice the current Daytona 500 post.
Being a gutless twit hardly describes her. She had lot to say. When it was buried far off the front page.
As to our “petitioner,” it’s not so much what she did - I joke around and use satire all the time and it’s damn obvious when I do - but her utter ignorance of what happens to things posted online and then whine about it when she’s unmasked as being clueless is an entirely different thing.
The “icing on the cake” was her contention that someone “stole” her words without her permission.
My advice to her is either learn from this episode or stay the hell off of Facebook or any other online service.
There needs to be a new Andy Warhol-like saying. In the past it was, “everybody is entitled to 15 minutes of fame”.
Now it should be,”everybody with a keyboard & a internet connection gets an opportunity to make a fool of themselves”.
Don’t be to harsh on the NASCAR morons, the die hard TG’s IRL gang are just as bad.
Well, now that that is over…
Clance, over until the next buffoon decides to show their ass.
Peter NASCAR has no exclusivity on nutcases, far from it.
That’s right WE are everywhere!
Good post Marc. I was beginning to wonder if I was alone out there in NASCAR land.
Alone at what Jim?
Taking naive nitwits to the woodshed?