NASCAR More Welcome in Mexico Than Washington State

This weekend the NASCAR Busch Series travels to Mexico City to run a road course race for the third year. Because of the dangers of drug cartels, robbers and kidnappers, the crews and officials have to take extraordinary measures to protect themselves during the trip down and back. When you add in the complication of running in Fontana the week before, and Las Vegas the week after, it's quite a logistics dance the teams have to do to get the right cars and equipment where they're supposed to be.

If you'd like to read more about it, NASCAR.com has a good story on everything involved in the 9,000 or so mile trip the Busch teams will make during this 3-week stretch. It's interesting.

At least NASCAR is welcome down there. Special Report had a piece on NASCAR's attempts to get a track built in Washington State so the series could expand to the Northwest. However, the snobby liberals that run that state won't have anything to do with the NASCAR crowd, even though two of the Cup series top drivers, Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne, hail from Washington State.

According to the report (which is not on the Fox News website) Richard Petty, Daryl Waltrip and Greg Biffle made an appearance at the Washington capital to make their case for NASCAR. They were basically insulted and turned away, with one Dem leader even referring to Richard Petty as a drunk and others suggesting that NASCAR fans weren't the type of people you'd want to have for neighbors, what with all the "junky cars in the front yard". What maroons.

NASCAR should be happy to keep their money and the hundreds of millions of dollars the sport would generate for the State of Washington and take them somewhere where the local officials aren't such pompous fools. If anyone can find a link to the story of the NASCAR visit to Olympia, let me know. Some of the statements of Dem legislators, had they been made about any other group, would have gotten them run out of office.