Daytona 500 Thoughts?  

Kevin - Speaking of Daytona Beach, I remember in the late 70's or early 80's, all of the hotels on the beach made you book a 5 night minimum (maybe even a week at some point?), even if you were just looking for a hotel for just Thurs, Fri and Sat of speedweeks.

Not long after that, Nascar or International Speedway Corp or whoever was in charge pretty much did the same things with their ticket policy.  If you wanted to sit in the same seat that you had been in for the previous 10 - 15 years to watch the Daytona 500 on the frontstretch (at that time it was the Campbell stand), they forced you to buy the same seats for Thurs, Saturday and Sunday.  .... And you had to have your $'s in by April 1st of the calendar year before the speedweeks that the tickets were for, so they sat on your money for over 10 months.

I mentioned it before, and it's true'er than ever after watching the races (thanks to DVR technology) from Daytona this week: I will be watching a lot more forms of racing in 2023 where there are no mirrors and no spotters on in car radio.  (Late Models, Sprints, Midgets.) 

I can respect what those guys (Late Models, Springs, Midgets) are doing behind the wheel.  I will never be a fan where blocking and shoving/wrecking determine who wins and who loses, and that is exactly what NASCAR has created for all their asphalt series (ARCA, Truck, xFinity, Cup), and now they think that type of "Boys Have at It" and the inevitable, but "unacknowledged" chaos that it creates (demands), is their Goose that is laying the Golden Egg, so they don't dare touch it...

We'll NASCAR.., that 'aint a Golden Egg laying there under the hind end of that goose....