What happened to the Rock'em, Sock'em style of racing that Bristol was famous for at one time?
Gone are the helmet throwing, bump and grind, temper flaring attitudes, and of course, the one finger salutes that made this one the most popular races of the season.
Bristol was known for bringing out the worst in any driver. It was a place that you left your somber feelings at home, and instead you brought your worst, most horrible, gut-wrenching attitudes that you ever thought possible, and then had them in attack mode.
What is it that got the racing Gods so upset that they took away the track's identity and replaced it with an episode out of the Twilight Zone?
It was like some unexpected and unexplainable extraterrestrial came in and sucked th...
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