Those NASCAR Racers are at it Again

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NASCAR, a great American sport the evolved from moonshiners carrying "illegal" booze in their cars and decided to race in some fields, because men will be men.  While the first actual race was in 1949, the sport has come a long way.  And when I say a long way, that is exactly what I mean.

Late in the Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway, young Joey Logano and veteran Tony Stewart mixed it up a little bit.  Tony claims it all started earlier in the day when Logano cut him off on a restart.  Whatever happened, it came down to the incident later in the race.  It was actually interesting to watch the two drivers side by side going for the win.  It looked like the battle was heated, as you could see in the driving from both racers.

After the two made contact, Joey Logano finished third, Stewart 22nd, Kyle Busch finished first, and Denny Hamlin went to the hospital.

Post race, Stewart wanted to brawl with Logano.  The whole time the fight was going on, that camera view covered most of the screen while the winner, Kyle Busch, occupied a smaller portion of the screen.  What was this race really about?  Was it about the race or about the fight?  Clearly fans wanted to see the fight and TV production knows that.  While the fight was entertaining, if I wanted to watch a fight I would tune in to some UFC.

I don't typically get in to NASCAR.  From time to time I like to watch a few laps.  Especially to see some underdogs like Danica Patrick or Travis Pastrana race.  I really do love the technical side of the sport as well.  For instance, learning about drafting is very interesting to me.  But then again if I want technical, I'll just turn on some F1, which I find more entertaining.

Back to Stewart and Logano;  the two had some words for each other, of which Tony's were more entertaining.  That is apparently what this sport is about, entertaining.  It is just strange to me that they received the spotlight over a man that won a race and a man that was headed to the hospital.

Either way, as a sport that evolved from a bunch of moonshiners racing incognito cars through corn fields, I guess this is what I can expect from NASCAR.  In all reality though, shouldn't I be focusing this article on the man that won the race?  Or does this not matter anymore?  What the Hoff?