Sure. Much like a sports team where you cheer for a team, in racing, we cheer for a particular driver and/or car. In my case, I started getting into NASCAR with the driver of the number 16 car, Greg Biffle because he drove the National Guard car and I am in the National Guard. Well, his team owner Jack Rouche changed sponsorships and Greg now drives under the Ameriquest sponsorship. But I still cheer for the driver Greg Biffle rather than the driver of the current National Guard car Casey Mears because I like Greg. My brother-in-law is in the Army, so he cheers for the 01 car - Army - regardless of who drives it. As far as how they are picked, everyone is different. In my case, as I stated above, I picked the National Guard car when I was in Iraq with the Texas National Guard. My daughter picked Kasey Khane because he is cute, as did my mom picking Kevin Harvick and my wife picking Bobby Labonte. Other pick drivers for their own personal reasons and you would have to ask them why they picked who they did.
So in racing, we root for our driver/car. Now, take Daytona for instance. My driver had some problems with the car and did not do well and we all knew he was not going to win. I still cheer for him though because you never know. Now, my brother-in-law's car, the 01 Army car driven by Mark Martin looked like it was going to win and so we all started cheering for him towards the end. But then Kevin Harvick came from nowhere and won the race. So we congratulated my mom on his victory. Yesterday's race was the same. My car was not doing well again and although he drove a great race despite the fact that his car had some problems, I still cheered him on. Now my mom's car was doing well and we believe he could have won had he not had a flat with only 7 laps to go, so towards the end we started cheering for her driver. So although we have our own driver we cheer for, if ours is not doing well and one of my family members is, I will cheer along with them. Some are not like this though. If their driver does not win, they blame everything and everyone under the sun as to why they did not win. I say get over it, it is racing and for whatever reason, your driver/car did not win and another did. Again, get over it and look forward to next Sunday when the next race begins. On 2/26/07, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please explain to someone who doesn't understand auto-racing....what does > it > mean to have someone as your driver? Is that like who you root for? And if > so, how do you pick them? In other sports, you root for your home > team....how does that work in racing? > > -- > She's a PhD in "I told you so" > You've a knighthood in "I'm not listening" > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228909 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
