If you are looking to have an idea of Daytona beach before Daytona 500, you can do it in less than 30 minutes instead of booking a trip to Florida.
“Home Turn”, a program organized by Jay Busbee by Yahoo Sports, made its debut on the Nascar Youtube channel on Tuesday. The documentary – Available at the top of this article – focuses on the city and culture of Daytona and is a partnership between Nascar Studios and Bluefoot Entertainment, the group behind the “Truesouth” series on the dry network.
The show has a lot of nuggets for those who have never been to Daytona And Those of us who have gone to the region too many times to count. Even Busbee said he had learned a lot during the shooting.
“I had always known the history of the region, but the way you can draw a literal straight line from the online flotation sands to the start of the end of Daytona International Speedway, both literally and Metaphorically, is quite brilliant – the same training that prompted men to tear the beach at 300 miles per century per century per century pushes them to claim the head of Tour 4 in the last round today, “said Busbee.
“In addition, I learned why say is shaped as it is … There was a dog track beyond what is now turn 1, and they therefore created the tri-oval so that ‘They can have both the size and the bank they wanted. The dog track has long been over, but the shape of a tri-oval remains. »»
Daytona is a city known for Nascar, of course, but also its role as host for MTV’s “spring” for many years. The region is trying to overcome this now, and like any community that seeks to redo its image, it is not an easy process. In a conversation towards the end of the show, Daytona’s resident for life and the writer of Daytona Beach News-Journal Ken Willis notes that Daytona is taken in the past while trying to modernize.
It was easy to see how this situation also applies to Nascar. The Stock Car has experienced a lot of turnover in the past decade while the boom years of the 2000s are becoming more and more in the rear view mirror. His new generation of drivers is not on star paths like Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Nascar tries to understand how to sail in his new niche place in the world of sport.
“This is an excellent connection, because Nascar and Daytona Beach had such mountainous peaks in the past, and these tops have thrown a shadow,” said Busbee. “The two must adapt to new tastes – people are not as interested in massaging a beach and sleeping for more than 10 years in a hotel room for spring holidays, and people are no longer so interested To sit for more than four hours to look at the race. To the current reality.
