Originally Posted by Boston41:
The way I look at it - it sure beats the constant 'picture of the day', 'favorite driver' plugs, and discussion of what the local dirt looks like. It is good racing content that has roots and relevance much deeper than how rich people spend money. Look at some of our favorite development drivers who began their young careers as open wheel phenoms and see how they have been screwed over by the lack of sponsorship and poor business decisions - no driver, even the ones who carry the famous names, are impervious to the BS thats going on right now.
Sure its nascar related, and I'm among a large contingent who prefers to read about openwheel racing. But when a large percentage of the fields we all follow is made up of Nascar hopefuls (because thats where everyone would like to be), then stuff like this and other stories similiar make sense.
I enjoy this site and have been semi-active with it since Usacfans.com - but its never really been about openwheel racing like the domain eludes to, its all about USAC style racing. Unfortunately, regardless of relevance, the second someone talks about winged sprints (open wheel), F1 (open wheel), or Nascar (linked via progression) people seem to turn to the defensive.
While the drivers who have not made it in nascar tend to stand out more than in the collective mind than the ones who have not made it open wheel racing, I think that Jan Opperman Jr. and Sheldon Kinser Jr. should be pointed out as examples of "name" not necessarily being the key to success. I say this not because these guys lacked talent or made bad business decisions, but to point out that it's a different world the when their fathers were getting started.