NASCAR shafts NHRA
A thread on the popular drag racing website Nitromater.com is titled: “Are we second fiddle?”
It refers to the U.S. motor sports pecking order where NASCAR is No. 1 and NHRA a distant second.
The writer is not happy about a revision to the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule that moves a race at Phoenix International Raceway from mid-April to the second race of the 2011 season on Feb. 27. The move was made after the date opened when Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., lost one of its two Cup races on what traditionally had been the weekend after the Daytona 500 opener.
