Quote Originally Posted by 34_40 View Post
Yeah, drag racing... I guess they never hyped Shirley Muldowney vs Garlits... Or the Mongoose vs the Snake.. promoters have played the game for decades. It's all good fun imho...
Quote Originally Posted by 1gary View Post
Well the Drag racing commercials promoted the races.

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Sure, they promoted the races, but like Mike says they did it by hyping the grudges, even at the local level, just like NASCAR does today. Always been there, always will. I don't really see that anything has changed.