Racing outlaws tv show8/19/2023 When I talk to people like Mills, Swanstrom, Bruder, etc they tell me how great the NPK series is as well. ![]() They aren’t all 2019 Camaros with the same damn engine in them, and they aren’t some bullshit supercars that the average blue-collar worker making $18 an hour can’t relate to. ![]() You have larger than life characters that you see on television every week with cars that look like normal cars. Street Outlaws is the modern-day version of what we had then. Yeah racing is cool, but people within the motorsports world connect with two things, the driver and the car. The difference now is that it is bringing back what fans of those decades got and then lost. The idea of two drivers going head to head on the street to see who is the baddest of the bad is something that even I partook in more times than I can count. Street racing is nothing new and it’s been happening since the first two cars were ever invented. This is where Street Outlaws took the reigns and ran with it. They were larger than life people that you could relate to. You knew the black #3 or the Castrol Ford or the Popeye car. Gone are the days of supporting your driver and already knowing who their sponsor was. Long gone are the days of Dale in NASCAR, or the feuds between Pat & Tony, or the Warren Johnson’s of the world. ![]() Add that to the fact that the racing isn’t as good, and you have a recipe for disaster. We have drivers that sound like robots in interviews, pushing the sponsors and being politically correct. Then in the 90’s we really saw a huge swing to the corporate dollars that continues today. It could be NASCAR, Indy, or drag racing, the fan had their guy/girl. They went to the racetrack, they bought merchandise, and they followed religiously. Back in the 70’s all the way through the early to mid-90’s motorsports fans cheered week after week.
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