Just back home in England after attending last week's Vegas 4-Wide.
Whatever your views on 4-Wide, it was a tremendous event. The place was packed all three days and was humming with energy even at 8.15 in the morning. Great crowd response, cheering and applauding the racers coming down the return road. Etc.
Contrast that with my first NASCAR experience six weeks earlier: the Folds of Honor/Quiktrip 500 at three-quarters-empty Atlanta Motor Speedway. No life, no atmosphere, few people, a fat fee for the privilege of seeing inside the pits (I didn't bother). Thirty-six cars chuntering round for 3 1/2 hours, checkered flag falls, everyone goes home. I'm prepared to believe this was a one-off and the others are all more fun. But if anyone needs their faith re-affirming in NHRA, I'd say send them to a NASCAR race.