{"id":9259,"date":"2006-07-31T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/31\/rallying-to-the-cause.html"},"modified":"2006-07-31T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:02:55","slug":"rallying_to_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/rallying_to_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Rallying to the cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love rally racing. I love it conceptually. And I love to watch it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, think of it. No mutant thoroughbred always-turning-left-around-a-circle Indy racer. Heck, even NASCAR is artificial compared to taking cars and running them in time trials across back roads, doing real driving on real by-ways, making real turns and real jumps over real &#8230; stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>real<\/em>. Teams of mechanics aside.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s one reason I drive a Subaru. The company is famous in rally racing circles. Part of what makes them fun cars and all-wheel-drivey.<\/p>\n<p>Rally racing isn&#8217;t big in the US like NASCAR. NASCAR is a lot easier to gather the rubes together and sell them lots of beer and put lots of ads up on the stadium walls. Rally racing is like bike races &#8212; brief glimpses of the contestants swooshing by, and then they&#8217;re gone. It works just fine for TV, as I noted on our last visit to the UK, but, for whatever reason, it&#8217;s not caught on in the US.<\/p>\n<p>NPR had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5595491\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> about it this afternoon. It was actually kind of patronizingin tone &#8212; &#8220;Oh, woe is me, no grandstands to sit and slurp my Bud upon&#8221; &#8212; but it was nice to see at least some publicity to the sport. <\/p>\n<p>Heck, maybe I&#8217;ll check the DVR for rally events, now that I think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love rally racing. I love it conceptually. And I love to watch it. I mean, think of it. No mutant thoroughbred always-turning-left-around-a-circle Indy racer. 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