Motorsport is a pure form of competition. It rewards talent, skill, inginuity, competitive drive, raw effort, all the things that make people better at every human endeavor. Its heroes and role models are easy to spot, because they are the winners. It takes people who don't know each other and makes them friends, it takes friends and makes them brothers, unbreakable human bonds like those forged in combat, but hopefully without the killing or dying.

Nascar had decided to stop celebrating winners.