The View from Here: The Business of NASCAR

“I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone”
Bruce Springsteen

This is a timely blog. Read it in the daylight.

Ghosts. Do you believe in them? Have you ever felt a chill down your neck or the hairs raise on your arm? If so, I wonder what the chill nighttime must feel like around graveyards* with such names as:

Darlington (The Lady in Black)

Greenville-Pickens

Hickory

Nashville (now Music City Motorplex)

North Carolina Speedway (Rockingham)

North Wilkesboro

Road America

South Boston

A legion of others……

I wonder what the pits are like in the deadlights of the moon. Do surreal crew members appear from the mist and then vanish with the first rays of the sun? Do fenders grind in the night as cars run as if possessed?

We have the “Car of Tomorrow,” but where is yesterday?

I have a modest proposal for NASCAR. Let’s resurrect yesterday.

Each year choose one or two (old) track(s) for a special ‘rewind of time’ race. You can work out the details. After all our roots run deep, don’t they?

The moon is rising so I must vanish. For now.

That’s the view from 1963….

Michael

*Yes, I know some still run either a partial NEXTEL schedule or other NASCAR events.