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Aug. 8, 2013, 7:41 a.m.
8/12/2013
By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com
Ok folks, it is Monday, and I must let out some frustration that has been building inside me for years. When I travel to a race, any kind of race, I get so excited and pumped up the entire trip there. You get to the track, setup your pits, check out the track, cruise the pits like you're a cool guy, and you get so excited that you find yourself cleaning already clean tires for practice, or perhaps resetting your ride height that you already set twice that morning.
Practice rolls along and you feel pretty dang good about the way your driving. You were hitting all of your lines, ripping off consistent fast laps, and you were whipping it bigger than anyone on the big double jump. The anticipation of racing has never been higher as your counting down the seconds until your race comes along. It feels like YOUR day, and YOUR going to win BIG!
Before the races can begin the promoter has a brief drivers meeting and at the end says, "Ok guys let's go racing!" You get a little "kick in your step" as you hurry back to your pits to get ready. You hear the announcer's voice come on saying, "3 minutes to race 1!"
The adrenaline is flowing, your ready to race, ready to win, and all of the sudden the announcer turns this on...
Track owners, race directors, announcers...let me be the first to tell you that for me, there is no bigger buzz kill at a racetrack than country music. Adding insult to injury, if you are going to play country music all day long, PLEASE DO NOT play the same song over and over with lyrics saying, "We'll pray it's raining on Sunday."
Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of some country music, but NOT at the racetrack. When the lonely, sappy, broken hearted wangy twangs of a country guitar start playing while I'm getting set to go racing, all of that anticipation, all of the excitement, and all of the racing adrenaline that has been building up is suddenly sucked from my body. Suddenly I want to pack up, go home, fall in love, get my heart broke, and stare out a rainy window thinking about it (ALL in slow motion like the music videos).
By no means am I trying to upset country music fans, I'm just saying IN MY OPINION playing country music at the racetrack is like playing PSY's "Gangnam Style" at your grandmother's funeral...it's just not right.
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