Somewhere around 70 to 80 percent of ticket purchasers had never attended a NASCAR race before, which was obvious when you saw the throngs of people four-to-six deep along fences, craning their necks and holding phones aloft to try and get video of the cars. This seems like a pretty calculated maneuver and a good piece of energy for our sport that’s always looking for something new and fresh to move it forward.” “We will not grow at all as a sport if we’re overly scared of failing. “It’s really important for the sport to try different things, to not be scared to fail,” owner/driver Brad Keselowski said. NASCAR should be hoisting their own W today, because the Chicago race was successful in achieving what it was supposed to do. When the Chicago Cubs win a game, they fly a W flag. Thankfully, the inaugural Chicago Street Race had a much happier ending than “Jurassic Park.” The skies eventually cleared, paying customers largely got what they came to see, and there was no T-Rex appearance (unless you count Sue, the fossil in the adjacent Field Museum). NASCAR got a taste of that experience this weekend, too. There’s torrential rain that washes out the best-laid plans, unleashing a disaster in the making. Of course, if you’ve seen “Jurassic Park,” you know what happens next: Mother Nature shows up, and she is pissed.
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