The Death nell to Motorsports?
Posted 09-27-2008 at 11:26 AM by FFighter_21
As we are moving into the new term of a president, and w/fuel prices going through the roof, I was moved to wonder just how much longer motor sports can survive.
I heard the presidential combatants both saying that they are moving forward w/their agendas should they get elected, w/Obama even giving a target date of having his in place by 2012. That being that all fossil fuel driven vehicles be innately lower in discharge of pollution
. W/the levels as low as they want, the ability to make any real horsepower is going to be next to impossible. I am one who never subscribed to the fact that a race car had to go 300 MPH to be a competitive car, or to put on a good show. The racing can be good if all of the cars go 100 MPH, as long as they are all fairly even in horse power and speed. It is the closeness between the cars that makes for good racing. But between the cost that will be involved in making the race engines run clean and still make good applicable horse power, along w/the high cost of testing, getting the cars from event to event and test to test we could very well be on the verge of seeing our favorite, or one of our favorite sports going down the tube.
How much can the sport take? The costs to the fan are outragous already, and the sponsorships are already being split between more than one company for a whole season. That cost is eventually trickeled down to the fan in some fashion. I don't know about anybody else, but my dollar cannot be stretched any further. It is already torn almost all the way through. One more good tug and it will be destroyed, and my cash does not multiply by fision.
I am sad, and highly disappointed, that soon racing will be a thing of the past. I never thought it would happen, but the market can only support what it can bear, and now that the government and the other special interest groups are getting involved, it is but a matter of time until they target racing and it will be tossed by the wayside like so many other things the working man enjoys and will no longer be able to afford. RIP Motorsports. We loved you and I know I will miss you terribly. Hopefully it happens after I pass away.
I heard the presidential combatants both saying that they are moving forward w/their agendas should they get elected, w/Obama even giving a target date of having his in place by 2012. That being that all fossil fuel driven vehicles be innately lower in discharge of pollution
. W/the levels as low as they want, the ability to make any real horsepower is going to be next to impossible. I am one who never subscribed to the fact that a race car had to go 300 MPH to be a competitive car, or to put on a good show. The racing can be good if all of the cars go 100 MPH, as long as they are all fairly even in horse power and speed. It is the closeness between the cars that makes for good racing. But between the cost that will be involved in making the race engines run clean and still make good applicable horse power, along w/the high cost of testing, getting the cars from event to event and test to test we could very well be on the verge of seeing our favorite, or one of our favorite sports going down the tube.
How much can the sport take? The costs to the fan are outragous already, and the sponsorships are already being split between more than one company for a whole season. That cost is eventually trickeled down to the fan in some fashion. I don't know about anybody else, but my dollar cannot be stretched any further. It is already torn almost all the way through. One more good tug and it will be destroyed, and my cash does not multiply by fision.
I am sad, and highly disappointed, that soon racing will be a thing of the past. I never thought it would happen, but the market can only support what it can bear, and now that the government and the other special interest groups are getting involved, it is but a matter of time until they target racing and it will be tossed by the wayside like so many other things the working man enjoys and will no longer be able to afford. RIP Motorsports. We loved you and I know I will miss you terribly. Hopefully it happens after I pass away.
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Ken, I don't know if I need a Kleenex, a pistol to the temple or a few dozen Zanax after reading that.
Excellent points and I can only hope it never happens...Posted 09-27-2008 at 05:29 PM by Believe
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If NASCAR can figure out how to use ethanol it may be their only choice years from now.Posted 09-28-2008 at 09:47 PM by racersimage 
- It's a sad testement to the truth. Unforunately anything is possible now. Our way of life is dissapearing, and it doesn't seem to be that we can do all that much about it.Posted 11-02-2008 at 03:54 AM by robertmcunningham
