Laughing Stock at 188.001 MPH

American stock car racing opens it's season this week at Daytona Beach Florida. NASCAR once again pushes it's Car of Tomorrow onto the high banks of Daytona Raceway. What a joke! The Car of Tomorrow doesn't even have a trunk that opens, the headlights and taillights are paper decals, it has a welded tubular frame, a body made of thin sheet metal and a V8 motor that uses a carburetor. There is nothing stock about this car other than it's the laughing stock of racing. It's been illegal to sell a new car that uses a carburetor in America since the mid 1980s and no one in their right mind buys an automobile with a V8 anymore. The so called Cars of Tomorrow are using 1960s technology. They are big and boxy unlike the cars the public drives today and they consume gas faster than a wildfire does. Where are the fuel efficient engines that the public needs for today's high gasoline prices?
The Big Three automobile companies fund most of NASCAR in one way or another so where is all our tax payer bailout money going? NASCAR is no different from the Big Three, both have squandered millions and millions of dollars on things that have no use in today's real world. They should have been spending money on research and development that would help the USA rid itself from dependency of imported oil.
I rant and rave about NASCAR but I'll be watching their automobiles travel in circles this weekend only because I like the race track they will be running on. The track is a relic of the past but unlike the relics of technology used by NASCAR, sometimes relics are a good thing. This track is so fast that NASCAR restricts it's cars to half their normal horse power and yet the pole position for this years race is 188.001 miler per hour.