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comes anticipation.”
    Shortly after he said this, a bus that had been provided for the convenience of journalists covering France’s momentous remarks returned from NASCAR’s Research and Development Center to a nearby hotel. As the bus neared the hotel, one of the writers pointed to the roof of another hotel, where a windblown stick figure was gyrating just about as wildly as Brian France. Apparently it was atop the hotel because of a business conference being held there.
    “The answer, my friend, is Brian in the wind,” the writer said.

    “When you’re looking at me, you’re looking at NASCAR history.”
    —RICHARD PETTY
    who won two hundred Cup races, nearly twice as many as anyone else

    “You know how you get in shape to drive a race car? You drive a race car.”
    —DICK TRICKLE

R oad racer Boris Said learned some lessons in his first Daytona 500.
    “I love this kind of racing,” he said, “[but] these guys sure change their personalities in race mode. They’re like Doberman pinschers with a hand grenade in their mouths.”

J oe Gibbs is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame who may well wind up in the NASCAR equivalent one day as well. He’s won NFL championships as a coach and NASCAR titles as an owner.
    “The Coach” considers the most notable difference between pro football and stock car racing to be the immediacy of the fans:
    “This sport is so unusual in that aspect,” he says of NASCAR. “I think that’s what I love the most about it. In football, the players have very little contact with the fans. You take a bus to the stadium, you warm up, you play the game, you get back on the bus, and then you’re gone. Where else can you have contact with your favorite athlete on the day of the event? It’s not unusual for these guys [in NASCAR] to sign autographs and interact with the fan on the day of the race.”

    “You’ve got to be at least five feet tall and have a briefcase full of cash under both arms.”
    —DAVID PEARSON
    who won 105 NASCAR races, asked what it takes to be a race car driver today

    “It was wild out there, like cannibals chasing a deer.”
    —JERRY NADEAU
    after a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway

    “Short-track racing is like walking through a minefield. You have to watch every move and be completely aware of what’s going on around you. If you give the guy in front of you some room, you’ll get booted from behind. You can get bit by a lot of things you didn’t have anything to do with starting.”
    —DALE EARNHARDT JR.

T here are no more anxiously awaited Nextel Cup races than the two held annually at Bristol Motor Speedway. While a ticket to the August night race is a bit tougher to procure than the Sunday afternoon race in the spring, both are sold out well in advance. Fan polls invariably rate Bristol as the circuit’s most popular track.
    Yet the imposing short track in the Tennessee mountains doesn’t seem to get the credit it deserves. It’s amusing when national magazines touch on the subject of “tough tickets” and intimidating venues without mentioning Bristol.
    Think the ACC basketball tournament is tough to see in person? If you want to attend that event—or at least most of it—just hang out at the exits when the fans of first-round losers are returning to their vehicles. Getting a ticket at face value for the rest of that affair is no problem. Bristol, on the other hand, will draw more than 100,000 for a Busch Series undercard. Many fans will roll into town with no assurance of seeing the Cup race, and they won’t be too disappointed if they have to settle for one live and the other via television. A Yankees-Red Sox ticket is tough to finagle, but neither Yankee Stadium nor Fenway Park has 156,000 seats.
    The retired car owner Bud Moore once described Bristol disparagingly as “a damn pinball machine,” adding, “It ought to be against the law to have more than two dozen cars running around that place at the same time.”
    But