NASCAR should continue to be engulfed and embossed in the culture that has made it what it is since antiquity (well, actually; since R.J Reynolds began sponsoring what was then called the Winston Cup and is now called the Sprint Cup beginning in 1971).

NASCAR should continue to be run by car enthusiasts for car enthusiasts, rather than trying to be as appealing as mainstream sports (icky, yucky Basketball, Football, Baseball; and Hockey), not employing drivers and pit crew members who had originally aspired to become ball-playing athletes but wound up becoming a stock car driver or a pit crew member instead, and don’t really want to be working there; but are because they have to. The pit crew members should continue to be full-time mechanics acting as part-time pit crews.

It also should continue to not matter if a potbellied, unathletic person serves as a driver or a member of the pit crew.

Although I am not fond of drugs and alcohol, as a traditionalist NASCAR fan-the sponsors should continue to be usually drug, alcohol; and tobacco companies, petroleum companies such as Mobil, Marathon, Quaker State, Pennzoil, and Valvoline; and auto part chains such as Checkers and Autoworks, sometimes companies like Kodak, Coca-Cola, and Hawaiian Punch (for many years a non-drug subsidiary of R.J Reynolds); and not odd things like promoting up and coming movies, cartoon characters, and such.

The fan base of NASCAR should continue to be dominated by car enthusiasts from the north and west, and Rednecks and Southern Belles from the Southeastern part of the country.

A NASCAR race that isn’t televised on CBS just doesn’t seem right. Watching a CBS-televised race just seemed to give you an anodyne feeling. No other television network or cable channel has ever done as good of a job of televising a NASCAR race as CBS-past, present; and future.

Not that I ever cared, and nor will I ever care about mainstream sports; but the production of all sporting events televised by CBS during the era of Neal Pilson at the helm resulted in a product that seemed to give you an overall anodyne feeling.

NASCAR has already changed for the worse by the time of this aberrant so-called “Pit Crew Challenge”, which has it’s roots in a more reasonable two-tire change exhibition event from 1967-1984, later superseded by the four-tire change exhibition event held at Rockingham Speedway from 1985-2003. The event was held at Rockingham Speedway earlier when it was the two-tire change exhibition event.

NASCAR has also changed for the worse by the time these videos were taken: