The usual cups always remain welcome for the pilot, but sometimes they look too trite, or very "sponsorship". Formula 1 races complained about it in the past years. But if we go beyond the ocean, we will see not just beautiful and legendary trophies. Sometimes or award procedure is something special and even a whole ritual.
Vladimir Bashmakov
Lobster for victory
In Nascar Cup Series, the highest league of the stock-box racing, for the victory on the New Hampshire Motor Speedway highway as a prize is awarded a huge live lobster. This tradition appeared not so long ago, namely in 2010. The first winner who received an unusual trophy was the seven-time champion Jimmy Johnson.
Kyle Bush's wife, Samantha, asked to let go of the lobsterSometime, the winner of the race here was given a sigway, but the manager of the track, Jerry Gappens, was looking for something new, which would personify the state of New Hampshire. In the United States, large lobsters catch only in three states - Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire itself. We are talking about a large crustacean, weighing about 9-12 kg. Naturally, weight and size changes from year to year.
The search for "Trofei" leaves for three weeks. After that, Lobster takes his place in the restaurant aquarium and gets a name. It is worth noting that the age of such a crustacean is in the area of 80-100 years. Sometimes the owners of the restaurant, the Brothers Greg and Jimmy Markisov, who are preparing a trophy, are asked if it is sorry for him? The answer sounds like this: "All the cows are not saved in the world."
The winner of the race receives the loggers in a living form. And although for many this is the desired prize, there are those whom it is not very pleasant. For example, Danny Hamlin after the victory in 2012 simply began to run away from the "Prize". But in 2017 it did not stop him in the pursuit of another victory on the highway in Laudon. Danny himself then explained that he had a certain phobia lobster.
And the wife of Kayl Bush, Samantha, after the next victory of her husband on a mile oval in New Hampshire, asked to let the lobster back. It is not known whether it was done, but they say that Lobster who visited in captivity, no longer survives on the will.
After the rider was handed the prize, he is taken back to the restaurant. Lobster is prepared, then the meat is frozen and sent to the team base. That before the shell, then during cooking, it becomes red, just as when we cook crayfish. So it is collected back, glued, and color varnish to give the original look and color. The finished trophy pilot gets the next year, upon arrival on the oval in New Hampshire.
Grandfather hours
Well, if you win on another famous oval, half a minute Martinsville Speedway, then you are handing high wooden watches with a pendulum, they are called "grandfathers clock" in America. The height of the watch is 2.1 meters, and the tradition itself is much more than the years that the Lobser "Lobser".
Chad Knouse and Jimmy Johnson with their trophiesIt originated in 1964, and the reason was the same, to give something that personifies the staff. The author of the idea would be Eich Clay Erls, the founder of the track. In this case, we are talking about the state of Virginia, which is known for the production of wooden furniture.
Dale Ernhardt-ML, repeatedly noted that he wanted to win on my Mintinsville precisely because of hours. But Jimmy Johnson won them although nine happy. And of them, he gave Bruton Smith, the owner of many racing trails in the United States. That is, eight two-meter wooden clocks stand at him at home. Some of them differ in the form and color of the tree. All of them stand in the same room. Michael Waltrip won 11 such hours, but he gave a few of them. The King of Richard Petty is 12, three races in Martinsville he won before the tradition of tradition.
Gibson Les Paul as a gift
Nashville, Tennessee. Rodin Bourbon, and, of course, rock and country. Anyone who won a race on a concrete oval, a length of 1.3 miles in the IndyCar series or in the second NASCAR National League, received a Gibson Les Paul guitar as a trophy with an original print, which painted the artist Nascar Sam Bass.
The company from Nashville is one of the most famous guitar brands, and the Forest Forest model is their first all-circuable electric guitar on which almost all the great rock musicians played.
In 2009, Kyle Bush decided to try on the Lavra Jeff Bec and Pita Townsende and broke the guitar worth about $ 2000 on the Winner Alley. This year, the highest NASCAR League will arrive on the track in Nashville.
Congratulations from the rattling snake
Going on the so-called "home highways" of America we find even more exciting prizes and congratulations. Domestic routes in the USA are called small autodromes where regional series are held. We are talking about such tracks as, for example, South Alabama Speedway. The pilot, winning the Rattler 250 race, receives a trophy with a thunderstorm snake. By tradition, it must be kissing in the head.
And on the Winners Avenue, when awarding, the tamer brings a living "Greopchka" with which the winner is photographed. However, this tradition is not happy. The champion of regional divisions NASCAR Babba Pollard refused to be photographed with the snake.
Bear on the Winners Alley
In the ground races on the Gallatin Speedway highway in Montana, there is no snake. But the winner comes to congratulate the trained bear Grizzly. Kosolapiy behaves so that sometimes there were assumptions that it was "rich". But no, it is really a big and real bear.
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