I'm not a big NASCAR fan so I'm not fully aware of the rivalries in the sport, but I've heard that some people hate Jeff Gordon, why is that? I would love to know more, so specific and detailed answers would be appreciated.
Are there any other major rivalries in the sport, or unpleasant drivers?
2007-04-30 20:15:33 · 43 answers · asked by Dog 4 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
Despite what people above are saying about him being arrogant, I think it has more to do with the fact that he dominated the field for so long. If the fans were looking for arrogant drivers to blame, Tony Stewart wouldn't have so many fans kissing his butt. The man blamed his poor performance on NASCAR races being fake like the WWE.
Jeff Gordon started as an outsider (many fans didn't like him originally because he wasn't a good old southern boy like most of the field) and came in and decimated the competition week in and week out. Fans didn't like to see somebody they couldn't relate to win, so they created this overwhelming resentment towards the "wonder boy". People new to the sport started making it a point not to be Gordon fans since many NASCAR fans treat his fans as though they are the untouchable class of racing fans.
2007-04-30 21:26:10 · answer #1 · answered by angry_sean 2 · 7⤊ 3⤋
the reason is two fold....like already mentioned Jeff Gordon isn't the typical southern boy competing in a what used to be a south-eastern sport....in that sense he is an outsider who has taken over the sport single handedly.....second reason is Dale E. Sr. was the most dominant driver in the 80's and early 90's....with that sort of success he had built a strong fan base.....or I rephrase...a strong southern conservative fan base......here comes Jeff Gordon onto the Winston Cup scene (it was called WC back then) and Dale E. basically was done...from 1994 to 2001 Dale E didnt win any championships whereas he had won 5 before then....to make matters worse..."wonder boy" jeff gordon won 4 championships during 94-01....so as a Dale E. fan, Im like....I hate this outsider trying to take over my sport... thats the quick and dirty version....
2007-05-02 05:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by Sameer G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's a reason why they extremely hate him this year:
He keeps getting good finishes and wins; as well as his teammates
Hendrick Motorsports have domintaed so far in 2007
Just completely dominated
And thats why some non-Hendrick (Gordon, Johnson, Busch, and Mears altogether) fans don't like them
Another reason would be which started last week at Pheonix; the tribute he did which was misinterpretted as something negative towards Dale Earnhardt. Like Jeff's saying, "Now I'm as good as Dale Earnhardt."
But it's not that way, thats really false
He loved DE...he had learned a lot from DE, which contributed to that win at Talladega
No major rivalries, I don't think
No, i think the only one is with the fans
Yup, the fans just hate him, hate seeing him win and get good finishes
I mean just face it: Dale Earnhardt doesn't have equipment and a stable-organization to do good track-wise and just simply away from the track
All these merging-with-Yates stuff has sometimes troubled him and he's just not at his best
Man, Jeff won Talladega! Why are they so mad?
There should be no reason
He won it fair and square\
He's had a good season because his organization, Hendrick Motorsports, is ready, stable and has all the equipment and people to get wins and great finishes
Thats just how it is, I mean look at what happened to them in, I think, 2005, when they lost those people.
Hendrick's son and other garage and organization members
But they're healing from, they really are, and it their year
But it's just some "hooligans" as some call it that are putting them and NASCAR down
2007-05-01 00:41:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
First off Jeff doesn't wreck people to win. He bumps or spin them. None of the people he has bumped out of the way have ever wrecked when he was going for a win. Dale Sr used to do it all the time and you all loved him for it. You're all just jealous hypocrites. Jeff is a great race car driver and by all accounts a great person. So deal with it! When he is done he will be the winnest driver in the modern era of NASCAR. And he will cry all the way to the bank.
2007-05-01 08:41:50 · answer #4 · answered by Mike V 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the most unpleasent driver in the sport is the fat little loud mouth thats drives the #20 car tony stewert when he wrecks it's always someone else's fault when he has a bad finish he blames nascar for fixing the race his only problem is he is a miserable person and his fans suck i believe they are more responsible for throwing things on the track then earnhart fans. and as a life long gordan fan i've heard all the same crap as people above are saying a million times but all he does is win and then win again when their drivers start winning like he does people will talk bad about them also just remember the drive for five is still alive
2007-05-01 07:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by simone219 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nascar is a southern sport and fans think that Jeff Gordon ruined it by being from the west coast. I don't understand either but we can't do anything about it.
2007-05-01 14:56:03 · answer #6 · answered by GT-R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'll fill you in on a sprint secret. i think of Gordon found out at Kansas a sprint secret. He mentioned after the race a similar element I mentioned in the previous the race. That being ill fairly helped him and that i in my view do think of that facilitates drivers concentration each now and then. Gordon mentioned "in line with probability i could desire to be ill greater frequently" jokingly. What happens is once you're feeling undesirable and basically putting in there each now and then you basically attempt to hold on somewhat of "over-doing it". If he remembers that then he gets one in the previous this season ends. i think of "concentration" is the foremost to getting the main out of those automobiles alongside with being waiting topersistent with a unfastened setup. Kyle Busch had it. Carl Edwards has it. Jimmie Johnson has it. Gregg Biffle has had it yet i think of he's dropping it. Drivers can think of they're concentrated ... yet fairly no longer be. Jeff mentioned there is this form of effective line for those automobiles to be aggressive. the two they're set up precise and additionally you're aggressive or the two you're way off. i think of they have been close Sunday...!!! If he's taking that into attention those following few races then he gets one. seem for Jimmie and Jeff to artwork mutually at Talladega. which would be his next warm spot. a piece of writing I examine the different day mentioned HMS has found out the thank you to get some greater horsepower from their engines. in the event that they actually did, and that they artwork mutually at 'Dega then they have an extremely good probability at it there. The Toyotas would be no longer elementary to overcome there so it is going to take teamwork.
2016-10-14 05:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by bhuwan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeff Gordon came through the ranks quickly and even surpassed Earnhardt in his race victories. He is a young driver to have accomplished this feat and there are a lot of Earnhardt fans out there that are not happy with this fact. A lot of folks claim that Gordon is a whiner. I myself being a huge Gordon fan, think that at one time or other all of the driver's tend to "voice their opinion" about something, but not all is considered whining....depends on who the driver is.
2007-05-01 05:28:04 · answer #8 · answered by Sandy F 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ford fans hate him because Ford brought him to NASCAR and then he stabbed them in the back by signing with Hendricks and has driven a Chevy to all those wins instead of a Ford.
Earnhardt Sr. fans didn't like him because they viewed him as a spoiled child when he came to the sport. Earnhardt spent his early adult life, chasing a dream by dragging a beat up car around to short tracks for years before he got a break in a decent car. A decent car, not a great car by any means, which he drove to a Championship in 1980. Even with Childress, he did not always have superior equipment but he always had superior dertermination.
Law abiding fans dislike him because he drives for a man who pled guilty to bribery and mail fraud charges in 1997.
Everyone else dislikes him because of his incessant good luck. His number of wins under caution is abnormally high.
His good luck, like when he had a radiator punctured by a chunk of asphalt from a pot hole that formed during a race. His primary car was out of the race but the team was allowed to roll the backup off the hauler during the red flag and he finished the race in a different car than what he started. That had never happened before, although there was a precedent for not allowing it. The innagural World 600 in Charlotte was marred by the track coming apart. Most of the field was out due to damage to radiators. Teams were mounting screens to the front of the cars to try to prevent damage.
The constant complaining from his fans about the boos. The more they complain about it, the louder the boos get.
Get a clue people, fans will always boo a driver they don't like.
Deal with it, learn how, your driver appears to be. He watched how Dale used the boos to his advantage.
2007-05-01 04:28:41 · answer #9 · answered by crunch 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm gonna give it to you in a nutshell. Gordon came into the sport at a very young age and started dominating almost immediately. Most fans resented that as well as a lot of drivers including Mr. Perfect Dale Sr. I think it's funny how people keep posting how Gordon whines, I got news for you Dale Sr. used to whine all the time about "wonder boy" or the "kid" because he was no longer the man to beat. Gordon is the best of his time, Sr. was the best of his time and R. Petty is the best of ALL time.
2007-05-01 03:32:23 · answer #10 · answered by 3x8=24 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋