Being a fan of motor sports

It is very hard at time to be a fan of motor sports. This is not as simple as being a fan of football, baseball,tennis, or even golf. The expression of the pain of loosing your favorite driver in an accident on the race track can be a very major experience for anyone to handle at anytime in one's life. Yes you can experience a football, basketball, or baseball player getting injured. Those injuries can be very traumatic for the fan and that player family as well. Racing is another world. Yes the pain that you can have by being a fan in motor sports can be glorious at one race then a driver that can have major implication in the next race. Driver can most certainly loose their life and family members very much so can feel the pain of loss of a family member. Mothers , fathers, wives, and children of these drivers as their love ones get strapped into a race car right before the race. Through the yester years of racing when even safety was no where as if it is today. The crews and team mates of a driver focusing on the safety needs of a driver. Racing leagues setting the safety rules so a driver can be safe in today's racing. Look can you believe in Indianapolis Indiana one mans (Carl Fisher) vision to convince three other business men that building a race track west of downtown Indianapolis so far away from everyone would be a great business venture. The though that Carl Fisher idea would be so powerful today, because of the drive of Tony Hulman at the time of the first Indy 500 Mr. Tony Hulman was ten years old in 1911. When Tony purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1945. Then did get the race track ready for the 1946 race and speared no expenses. The fans compassion of this sport over the years are still very strong. Look no matter how we all look at the 500 mile race this next year and the power of the fact is 1911-2011. Look would anyone pay attention to Indianapolis motor sports power at all if it was not for Carl Fisher or Tony Hulman vision in their own time of destiny for us all to enjoy now. The drive of these men to achieve safety and increase speed in the distance of 500 miles in the month of May every year since 1911. Yes we have missed a few years because of certain wars and respect for our country but look 1911 to 2011 that is my sport and that is racing.
By: Jim Gandolf 2010