Track owners complain the drivers don’t want to do enough to help promote races, journalists argue they don’t get enough access to drivers. They go from Point A to Point B and don’t want anything impeding their trip. They don’t walk through the crowd and sign autographs. Drivers now ride carts out of the gated motorhome lot at Charlotte Motor Speedway and through the fan zone to get to the grid. Then came the private planes and motorhomes and golf carts. They leaned against stacks of tires to talk business, they killed time hanging out with NASCAR’s competition officials in the at-track office. The drivers in the Hall of Fame right now used to sit in chairs outside their haulers chatting with anyone who stopped. Why? Because Busch is part of a generation of drivers that grew far too entitled to remember how the sport grew to its current heights.
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