| Loud engines, cars flying past at 200mph, and parts | | | | few BIG differences. What surpasses the experience |
| flying, its the beautiful sport of NASCAR racing. This | | | | of driving a stock car is the unlimited suspension and |
| intense adrenaline rush of mass horse power going | | | | the smoothness of 140 mph through large plains of |
| around the track has stimulated billions in revenue and | | | | the desert. Coming up to cliff sides in the southern |
| continues to be the leader in sports revenue each | | | | tip of Baja in the well known Baja 1000 race will |
| year. Originally, the idea of putting fast stock cars in | | | | definitely get your heart pumping, knowing a wrong |
| a stadium came from the prohibition days. When the | | | | turn can send you about a thousand feet to your |
| prohibition was implied and the ban on alcohol was | | | | death. There isn't a feeling in the world that can |
| established many people in the US started making | | | | compare this sensation, it is almost like dancing on |
| their very own alcohol out of the backyard or | | | | the step of death, you can imagine the adrenaline |
| basement of their house. This alcohol was being | | | | that pumps through your vanes. |
| distributed and it needed to get to its destination | | | | So is this sport going to take over NASCAR? With |
| fast, without being caught. The alcohol runners | | | | some of the trucks in off-road racing, they have |
| started attending all the southern stock car races, | | | | estimated values of up to $500,000, which imposes a |
| and then it evolved into what we know it now as a | | | | big risk on owners driving these and the unexpected |
| nationwide sport called NASCAR. | | | | outcomes we have seen. Off-road racing is |
| In the recent years we have seen many top | | | | sanctioned into many different classifications and |
| performance drivers from the NASCAR association | | | | each gaining their own revenue. Combining what |
| dipping into the unlimited world of off-road racing. | | | | every sanction brings in is unknown, but the fan |
| Performers such as Robby Gordon who started with | | | | count, and publicity all make up for those numbers. |
| off-road racing and made his way into NASCAR. | | | | Many are completely devoted to the sport and have |
| Other top motocross performers such as Travis | | | | faith the off-road sport will take off into a whole |
| Pastrana, and Brian Deegan have stepped foot in this | | | | new revolution unmatched by NASCAR. It is only |
| revolution. This world filled with the same fire | | | | time that will tell, but as the sport gets bigger and |
| breathing 850 hp. engines found in the stock cars and | | | | bigger, you may see your favorite drivers of |
| the same white knuckle driving experience minus a | | | | NASCAR racing off-road. |