Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Originally Posted by Dirtfan:
There are a "few' sprint car fans where I work,however the crew chief of a local sprint racer works there so we have some interesting conversations.:thumb

Not only do we have few sprintcar fans (engineer dept. and line crew) we are blessed with two (well maybe one) modified drivers :kookoo and one straightliner mochenic. :headbang :kookoo

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Before my retirement I only had one co-worker I could talk racing with. It was hard to give him the respect I thought a Manager deserved since he was a friend first and former supermodified driver.

Since so many of you in this thread have referred to NASCAR, I want to share what has become a pet-peeve of mine this summer. When has it become the in thing to have your obituary read "NASCAR FAN"? I have lost count on the number of obituaries I have seen posted in The Palladium-Times the local Oswego, N.Y. paper stating "NASCAR FAN". It was alot! So, I found myself asking what is up with that? Oswego residents have the best supermodified track in the country within their city limits and their obituary reads "NASCAR FAN". Go figure!

Patti

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

At my last job I used to organize outtings to Lincoln Speedway and Williams Grove a couple times a year. I've introduced 20 + people to Sprint Car racing. I took an F1 fan from Scottland to the Grove once and he loved it He was an F1 snob that would not even watch any American racing until I had him stand in the infield of turn one at the Grove. He was amazed! Also had a couple guys from India that I took to Lincoln too. They had fun, but it wasn't their cup of tea! I got my boss an and another co-worker hooked on racing who never attended an event. Now we've been to races all over the country together.

Now because I go pit side so much I don't take new fans with me. I can't keep track of them and take photos at the same time.

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

One time I had a guy say "I'm not a fan of racing, but I love NASCAR" theres no hope for some people :loser:


www.dereksnyderracing.com

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Originally Posted by IndyBound:
Before my retirement I only had one co-worker I could talk racing with. It was hard to give him the respect I thought a Manager deserved since he was a friend first and former supermodified driver.

Since so many of you in this thread have referred to NASCAR, I want to share what has become a pet-peeve of mine this summer. When has it become the in thing to have your obituary read "NASCAR FAN"? I have lost count on the number of obituaries I have seen posted in The Palladium-Times the local Oswego, N.Y. paper stating "NASCAR FAN". It was alot! So, I found myself asking what is up with that? Oswego residents have the best supermodified track in the country within their city limits and their obituary reads "NASCAR FAN". Go figure!

Patti

It isn't just the Oswego paper, Patti. You'll see it here too. This, the home of several sprint car drivers, both past and present.

I gave up trying to get co-workers to go to a sprint car race. They would rather talk NASCAR racing if anything. In my office there are about 3 very casual fans, 1 of whom is from Bedford originally. Huge Kinser fan, but seldom goes to any race.

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

I think there is a busload of airport workers going to Putnamville Sat. night to watch there buddys car run.
:dologob:

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Kentucky-Is brain washed with late models and nascar. It gets %$#@ frustrating trying to find anybody to go with me to any sprint car race. It Sucks! I would much rather go to a sprint car show winged or wingless rather Than to a late model or cup show anyday.

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While at one of my jobs the other day, someone said , "when they race, why dont' they go left also?"

I am not into NASCAR and any other racing as much as I used to, actually hardly at all, but knew there are road courses they race at. I just found it sorta funny.

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Originally Posted by rcderek22:
One time I had a guy say "I'm not a fan of racing, but I love NASCAR" theres no hope for some people :loser:


www.dereksnyderracing.com

im fairly certain that this is most nascar fans problem, they dont know what real racing is, they need to watch some mills videos and see what its all about

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Originally Posted by cecil98:
I have to explain to 90% of the people I talk to about racing, what a sprint car is. When the subject that we own a race car comes up, they'll ask what kind? and I'll tell them a sprint car. Inevitably, they'll ask me what a sprint car is. I haven't learned yet, though, because I still haven't put a pic of one in my wallet.

LMAO! That's exactly the way it is here in Minnesota!! One girl here at work was a Sprint Car fan but she quit & found a better job. Maybe I should do that! :doh: I do have a photo of my kid in his Sprinter in my wallet, so that I can explain the difference between SPRINT CARS :thumb and SPRINT CUP :thumbsdown: !

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I work at the Mopar pdc in Orlando Fl with 150 people and it seems im the only sprint fan in there and look at the $ MOPAR drops..I hope i can get some more fans into the sport from the Mopar pdc.

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I work in an Insurance office so there is just me and the agent I work for. He doesn't watch any kind of racing, but our office is in Bloomington so I can talk racing with a lot of our insureds some of them even help some local drivers in the pits! When we go to Bloomington Speedway (every Fri night during race season) We sit with most of the guys my fiance works with. So he has a good group of guys to talk to at work about sprint cars!

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

Everybody follows it! They don't have any choice! They work with ME!!:O:

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

I'm lucky I suppose. I work for car owner Mike Sala, who owns Sprint Cars and Midgets, so I'm able to keep up to date on what's going on out there and see things from a car owners perspective.

We took a co-worker to the races and this kid is hooked. He's a very bright kid....

Re: How many of your co-workers follow sprint car racing??
 

We purchased 4 season passes to the track we planned on racing at in '08. We split the tickets over the year between sponsors, co-workers, and people we knew who had never been to and/or did not know what a sprint car was other than "oh, those things that flip."

At seasons end, we had over 20 people in the stands who had never seen a sprint car race, and returned on their own at some point later in the year. We gained a sponsor with one of them, but more importantly - we(sprint car racing) gained a bunch of new fans who got to go out and tell others "you have to see it to believe it."

Now my co-workers know the #19 on the back of my truck isn't for Elliot Sadler. ;)