Sunday, October 30, 2005
Nascar Fan
All my life I have been looking for the perfect sport in which I may want to follow and even enjoy it enough to collect things from the sport and even like to watch it on TV. That sport for me is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and it is NASCAR. I tried Baseball, to long and boring but better then golf. I tried Football, I just don’t have time to keep track of it, but it is more fun then Baseball. So I started watching NASCAR about two years ago and love it.
I think I became interested in auto racing because I am such a car nut. I have even at one point in my life wanted to become a race car driver but never had the means or the support for it. After having seen my first on TV race two years ago I knew it was the sport for me. It had high speeds, danger, and of course cars. It also has excitement, when it comes down to those last few laps the race really starts to heat up as drivers try to get to the finish line first, what a rush.
At first I didn’t really have a team that I was following I just watched and start to cheer for the first two lead drivers until one of them won the race. For about nine month now I have narrowed it down to two drivers and their teams #19 Jeremy Mayfield and #31 Jeff Burton (who kind of seems like the underdog). They are both great drivers who want to win. This year however it seems Jeremy has been doing a lot better then Jeff. However I think Jeremy will not win the title this year because he has gotten himself in tenth place and the top three have a far greater points lead. Maybe next year Jeff might have a better chance at the Nextel Cup.
I have really gotten into this sport I have started spending money to buy collectibles form each of the two drives that I support. Someday I even hope to go to a couple of the races and be there to really here the roar of the engines and to smell the hot rubber and exhaust from these powerful cars. GO NASCAR!
I think I became interested in auto racing because I am such a car nut. I have even at one point in my life wanted to become a race car driver but never had the means or the support for it. After having seen my first on TV race two years ago I knew it was the sport for me. It had high speeds, danger, and of course cars. It also has excitement, when it comes down to those last few laps the race really starts to heat up as drivers try to get to the finish line first, what a rush.
At first I didn’t really have a team that I was following I just watched and start to cheer for the first two lead drivers until one of them won the race. For about nine month now I have narrowed it down to two drivers and their teams #19 Jeremy Mayfield and #31 Jeff Burton (who kind of seems like the underdog). They are both great drivers who want to win. This year however it seems Jeremy has been doing a lot better then Jeff. However I think Jeremy will not win the title this year because he has gotten himself in tenth place and the top three have a far greater points lead. Maybe next year Jeff might have a better chance at the Nextel Cup.
I have really gotten into this sport I have started spending money to buy collectibles form each of the two drives that I support. Someday I even hope to go to a couple of the races and be there to really here the roar of the engines and to smell the hot rubber and exhaust from these powerful cars. GO NASCAR!
