Local San Diego newspaper has a feature on nascar titled "Did NASCAR take a wrong turn?"
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Where have you gone, NASCAR? Where have you gone, Richard Petty and the high-winged Plymouth Superbirds ... David Pearson and the Wood Brothers' Mercury Cyclone ... Junior Johnson's famed one-of-a-kind banana car?
Anyone else remember when Petty and Bobby Allison would have at it on and off the track?
Apparently a lot of NASCAR fans do. And they don't like the politically correct/corporate direction their sport is following.
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Not only is attendance down at most tracks, but television ratings have slumped each of the past two seasons. Even the sale of souvenir merchandise has taken a hit.
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The COT is a standardized design that NASCAR is forcing on all teams. Yes, teams will still be listed by the four competing manufacturers – Chevy, Ford, Dodge and Toyota (which represents another speed bump to core fans) – but the COT Ford is a Chevy is a Dodge is a Toyota.
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ALMS is looking better everyday.