Nascar 2013

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Ha, I was just about to retitle this thread. More fun to let it be now

Love Joe Gibbs, but Hamlin and Busch are very hard to root for

Ha, I was just about to retitle this thread. More fun to let it be now

Love Joe Gibbs, but Hamlin and Busch are very hard to root for

I have Hamlin in a weekly pool a few of us longtime friends have. How can he be hard to root for? I can understand not liking Kurt or Kyle because they act like A-hole's but Hamlin hasn't done anything wrong that I know of.

Hamlin been known as a bit of a spoiled brat/hot head.

There is really only one guy I really like whose kinda of a jerk/hothead...Smoke. You remember when Gibbs had to hire like security for Tony Stewart when he walked around in the pits? Hilarious I pull for Dale Jr, but Smoke is a close second.

Drivers I cant stand: Kurt Bush because he is a flat out psycho asshole, Joey Lagano, rich kid punk.

I have Hamlin in a weekly pool a few of us longtime friends have. How can he be hard to root for? I can understand not liking Kurt or Kyle because they act like A-hole's but Hamlin hasn't done anything wrong that I know of.

Agreed.


Kyle's aggressive and has had run-ins but that doesn't bother me.

Denny...what has he done? I bet Smoot is just a UPS fan. He likes what brown does for him.



Tony Stewart is the one that's easy to hate. I've actually seen him in action at a local dirt track and everything people like to say about his attitude and massive ego is true. He's the least fan-friendly driver I've encountered by far.

Usually, a big NASCAR name coming to a little, local sprint car track would be something the fans would be excited about. The whole place was rooting against him that night.

I have Hamlin in a weekly pool a few of us longtime friends have. How can he be hard to root for? I can understand not liking Kurt or Kyle because they act like A-hole's but Hamlin hasn't done anything wrong that I know of.

Actually Kyle's not so bad. He's a bit short tempered but it's more inward anger. Kurt is the one who's not pleasant to be around.

Hamlin, unless he's changed in the past couple of years, does not treat his crew well. He's quick to blame others for mistakes on the track, with the car, etc. but rarely points the finger at himself. Tony Stewart, as one example, is a "We're all in this together, win or lose" kind of guy with his crew. Hamlin isn't. Wasn't at least

Agreed.


Kyle's aggressive and has had run-ins but that doesn't bother me.

Denny...what has he done? I bet Smoot is just a UPS fan. He likes what brown does for him.



Tony Stewart is the one that's easy to hate. I've actually seen him in action at a local dirt track and everything people like to say about his attitude and massive ego is true. He's the least fan-friendly driver I've encountered by far.

Usually, a big NASCAR name coming to a little, local sprint car track would be something the fans would be excited about. The whole place was rooting against him that night.

As a very casual NASCAR fan, Tony Stewart is my favorite driver.

And by "very casual", I mean that I only know the most popular drivers and don't really even follow the sport until the Chase.

I haven't been in the pit or garage area pre race Nascar since 1988 the last race at Riverside International in California. When they built the California Speedway in Fontana 1996 I started going to the track with mixed groups a couple times a year so it wasn't hang out all weekend in the infield in a motor home with the boys. So I now can only judge what I know about the drivers from TV interviews and the announcers. I know a lot of guys act way different when the cameras are rolling. Used to go to Orange County International Raceway (Drag Racing it closed in 1983) Don "the Snake" Prudhome
would alternate between cussing and screaming at his pit crew or flirting with groupies in between runs. The guy had no use for any fan that didn't look like a super model and treated his crew like crap. He had barriers around his crew and car and signaled security on who to let in, you could tell the dude thought he was king of the world.