Any of you guys see the show on FS1 about their rivalry? Very good show IMO.

Makes me wish for the good ole days of NASCAR.

Yep. Great show.

They still have nascar races?

Did they get into slap fights? Or towel snapping in the showers or something?

My thoughts exactly.

I quit watching when Stewart hung it up.

He would have to be the last of the nasty guys. Rest of em are for show.

I flipped channels last night and they had some pre-runner to the 500 at Daytona.........single file drafting shucks. I watched about 5 laps.

He's why I shopped at Home Depot. Hated JJ in the Lowes..........avoided that place at all times.

A decade ago, I wouldn't miss a lap. Now, I record the super speedway races and Bristol and fast forward through it to the last few laps. If I watch it at all. Tony was the last of them. When I was in my 20's and 30's, Talladega was the third largest city in the state on race weekend. When we went to church on a race day Sunday, you had to plan your route to avoid 231 through Sylacauga and we're 20+ miles away. Now, you don't even notice the traffic and it seems 125,000 is a good crowd. Looks like the fan base the Helton's chased aren't as loyal as the one it forsook.

Turkey - I was the same way, wouldn’t miss a lap and if I was the road I would listen to the race on MRN. Now a days, with the exception of the Daytona 500 and the 600 in Charlotte - I doubt I watch 20-minutes of racing a year.

All the rules changes and politically correct crap has turned me off. When NASCAR made the decision to separate itself from its Southern heritage - it lost.

"All the rules changes and politically correct crap has turned me off. When NASCAR made the decision to separate itself from its Southern heritage - it lost."

Bingo!!

I turned it on just as they were penalizing the two leaders for pushing each other. They called it 'locking bumpers' . I thought it was called racing. Nascar has lost it's mind.

Yes.....They just don't have stock car races anymore.

I honestly think the loss of Earnhardtt coupled with the points system change absolutely ruined nascar.

Richard Petty was nascars first pretty boy. I never could stand him.

Yep

Never was the same to me without Davey.

http://www.espn.com/racing/standings/_/year/1990

This was nascar at its peak, in my opinion. Several factors lead to the decline, I think.

With Davy , Alan and Dale Sr all dying in a short span coupled with guys like Gordon coming along , Nascar lost a lot of its base and did nothing but shoot themselves in the foot trying to appeal to a different demographic.

Sure Gordon, JJ , the Bush brothers and the other metrosexuals could drive but most southerners couldn't relate to them and none of those guys could intimidate anyone once they exited the car. Nascar was a lifestyle brand and they screwed it up beyond recognition.

There maybe more talent on the track today but I'll never know. I watched my last full race the day Dale died. I was already losing interest so maybe I'd have quit following anyway but that was the final nail for me.

Who the hell knows what the rules are anymore. Used to love it, haven't watched a race in years though. Boring.

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Dega use to seat 100k on the backstreatch?

Nooooooooooo.

The main grandstands probably seats/sat 100K...but the backstretch is pretty much bleacher seating. Maybe 20K at best, although they may have reduced seating in the last several years.

i might watch Talladega they are supposed to be running it without restrictor plates

NASCAR died with Dale. I haven't watched a single lap since then.

Me too,that was the end for a lot of people.

Neil Bonnett and Dale used to stay at my house in Hale Co when they were hunting there. Dale was the real deal, you got exactly what you saw, no pretends, no put ons, same in person at the camp as he was on TV at a race. He and Neil used to one up each other in a race to see who shot the biggest gun on deer. I think Neil won with a 378-30 Weatherby!!!! The world is a lesser place without those two. RIP boys.

A family friend of mine was the care taker of mt view lake in vandiver where the state record Lm bass was caught. One morning during the week before Talladega dale and Neil showed up on his door at first light half drunk wanting to go fish. He has a couple pictures of that trip in his living room .


I have some friends that have had a lease in luverne since the early 90's that dale had leased and designed prior to them getting the lease . Dale named it "champion hunting club" and they still call it champion to this day.

I still watch but not to the point I used to. Cooking ribs today like I do every year when they kick it off at Daytona

I like many of yall use to really enjoy nascar. I have a lot of great memories of going to Talladega races with my dad and paw paw. eating cold fried chicken and paw paw destroying some Miller high life's. The racing and drivers then till now is night and day. In those days it felt like the drivers where one of us. Now all the drivers are flat bill hat skinny Jean wearing hipsters that wouldn't be able to fillet a fish if life depends on it.
Then you add on the fact that nascar turned it's back on the good ole boys that supported the sport whole heartedly it just puts a bad taste in your mouth. Trying to watch a race these days feels like kissing a girl that cheated on you. Just can't make myself do it. Racing seems to be a dying sport across the board. all the dirt tracks around here are closed or barley keeping the lights on.

Good times watching that 3 car.. Never watch a race anymore. Tried to pull for JR for years the best i could, just wasnt the same.

Got home just in time to catch the "overtime" of Daytona. Pretty uneventful. Glad I didn't invest 4 hours watching that garbage.

Uneventful? I didn't watch, but i heard it was purty entertaining as far as wrecks go

My brother went to Daytona and said it was a lot of fun. Only drawback was the race lasted so long at the end.

They are doing away with restrictor plates and going to a "tapered spacer".