NASCAR Fans 2010: The Heart of the Sport

NASCAR has it's highly paid drivers, multi-car team owners, space age technology and a wealth of men and women who support the teams in various capacities, but without the precious fans, NASCAR is nothing. From the early days when fans sat on rickety bleachers, walls or even the ground to today's fan-friendly behemoth racing facilities, they always came to watch their heroes do battle against one another on tracks that were sometimes nothing but dirt without railings or even the beach at Daytona. Today's race car driver is more isolated from the fans as they are hustled from one place to another by their handlers.  They scurry from their motorhomes, to the haulers with a stop in the garage as needed to drive the car that bears their na...

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