November 30, 2005
NASCAR on the Streets of New York
Welcome to Bizzaro New York, where NASCAR stock cars race on the streets and country music is King! Via Gothamist Contribute, Brian Fountain, sent us some photos of NASCAR zipping across 42nd Street this morning as part of a "Vicotry Lap". Now that the season is over and Tony Stewart has won the Nextel Cup, he's in town doing publicity for Champions Week (for those interested, full schedule here). Is it just Gothamist, or does it seem like NASCAR has put the pedal to the metal on these celebrations ever since they started considering bringing an event to Staten Island. Be that as it may, it's NASCAR's 25th Champions Week here in New York.
Photo by Brian Fountain
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THAT'S what that was? We heard them racing up the street and figured it was just the construction site across the street at One Bryant Park.
Today is a Gridlock Alert day and they let these idiot hicks race around? Just another reason to hate Bubba Racing!
Toby makes a good point. But Nascar will forever try to get in the pants of the big city - especially as it is the media capital of the country, if not world.
ahahaha Nascar.
Man, this entire region is so out of touch with 99.9% of the United States, which is either a good or bad thing.
And 99.9% of the country is so out of touch with the rest of the planet.
I remember seeing the cars parked in Times Square with people handing out flyers. I was wondering what the display was all about.
I hope Nascar gets nixed on Staten Island. I don't know one person from there that wants it.
The Staten Island Advance (the forgotten daily newspaper from the forgotten borough) did a series about the whole NASCAR on SI thing.
All I can say is NO BUBBAS!
It's easy to zoom around a track at 200mph, especially if it's all left-hand turns. If these Nascar drivers want to impress me, let's see them do their "victory lap" through everyday midtown traffic, not on streets blocked off from traffic.
I moved to NYC to get away from stuff like this in the south. If you can't escape NASCAR in NYC, where do you go from here?
Just another example of the downfall of New York city as an artistic capital. More chain stores and dunkin dounuts please, let's make this place acceptable for mall morons and car boho's.