It seems that the left turns are not just happening on the track and writer Mark Stuertz has had enough.
Since the onset of the recession, NASCAR has been suffering a long streak of precipitously declining track attendance and TV ratings. And it hasn’t recovered.
NASCAR’s slump has been blamed on a number of things: a sluggish economy, a reliance on an older (and white) male fan base, cookie-cutter cars, the waning of American car culture, weak social media offerings, high gas prices, and boring races. In 2010, NASCAR Chairman Brian France ordered a five-year plan to stem the bleeding.
But on May 21, 2012, NASCAR may have choked off that five-year plan before it could get any traction. On that day, NASCAR inked a deal with the Obama EPA. Under the terms of the three-year pact, NASCAR will “stimulate participation in EPA programs” and “foster greater environmental awareness among NASCAR fans.” The EPA will identify the environmental “programs and messages that are best suited for promoting environmental stewardship and sustainable behavior.” NASCAR is charged with “encouraging greater environmental awareness and sustainable behavior by their fans.”
In other words, NASCAR is now an official EPA apparatchik charged with shoving the agency’s Orwellian propaganda down the throats of its fans in an attempt to change their behavior. NASCAR has essentially agreed to become a corporate crony of the EPA’s job and wealth shredding machine. For a sport that has always prized independence, raw power, and American traditions (invocations and military flyovers start each race), this may be too much for its core fans to swallow.
Is there anything left that this government has not destroyed? That was a rhetorical. We all know the answer is NO.
Disrupt the Narrative 
Deborah Sampson
July 1, 2012 at 5:46 pm
I’ve never been a race fan although plenty of family members and friends are. I wish everyone would take the same path as Stuertz and for the same reason, but they won’t. Most of them will accept it because they don’t want to give up their passion. Many of these people consider themselves conservatives who love God, Country, and their rights, but most of them don’t have a clue about the leviathan that is the EPA so this will mean little to them. The EPA will “nudge” them into accepting this or that and before you know it, they will have accepted it without even knowing why.
And that’s the way they do it folks….