It's not true that only NASCAR counts - NHRA drag racing is good, too.
Among the automotive enthusiasts I have known, there is a constant good-natured rivalry between fans of different types of racing and of different brands. For example, Chevy fans know that "F-O-R-D" means "Fix-Or-Repair-Daily". This also occurs between forms of racing, even by the racers directly involved. You may have seen the NAPA parts commercials in which the NASCAR driver sponsored by NAPA (Martin Truex) and the NHRA driver sponsored by NAPA (Ron Capps) make cracks about each others driving skills and requirements.
Even self-parody occurs within a racing organization. Consider the NASCAR commercial in which the driver is using a GPS system for directions: "Turn left", Turn left", Turn left"...
As a personal example, one of my first-year engineering students came in on the first day of class wearing a fairly gaudy Ford Mustang T-shirt. I walked up and said, "I hate Fords and the people that drive them." She was shocked for just a second, and then caught it that I was: a) a fellow hot rodder and b) that I was a Chevy fan, and I was making a common-interest connection. We got along well from that moment while she was in school, and we are still friends ten years later. (She is now an engineer in the auto industry.)
In that spirit, I was amused to note that the world's only known well-liked Renawlt, as described above, had a blown head gasket in the first paragraph, a bad starter in the second paragraph, a blown clutch in the third paragraph, and a 1400 cc engine described as "the big engine" (oxymoron) in the fourth paragraph. Now *that's* a Renawlt of the sort that we know and (don't) love... (most of us anyway)
Among the automotive enthusiasts I have known, there is a constant good-natured rivalry between fans of different types of racing and of different brands. For example, Chevy fans know that "F-O-R-D" means "Fix-Or-Repair-Daily". This also occurs between forms of racing, even by the racers directly involved. You may have seen the NAPA parts commercials in which the NASCAR driver sponsored by NAPA (Martin Truex) and the NHRA driver sponsored by NAPA (Ron Capps) make cracks about each others driving skills and requirements.
Even self-parody occurs within a racing organization. Consider the NASCAR commercial in which the driver is using a GPS system for directions: "Turn left", Turn left", Turn left"...
As a personal example, one of my first-year engineering students came in on the first day of class wearing a fairly gaudy Ford Mustang T-shirt. I walked up and said, "I hate Fords and the people that drive them." She was shocked for just a second, and then caught it that I was: a) a fellow hot rodder and b) that I was a Chevy fan, and I was making a common-interest connection. We got along well from that moment while she was in school, and we are still friends ten years later. (She is now an engineer in the auto industry.)
In that spirit, I was amused to note that the world's only known well-liked Renawlt, as described above, had a blown head gasket in the first paragraph, a bad starter in the second paragraph, a blown clutch in the third paragraph, and a 1400 cc engine described as "the big engine" (oxymoron) in the fourth paragraph. Now *that's* a Renawlt of the sort that we know and (don't) love... (most of us anyway)