Here's a thing someone else wrote one time

Well it was an article comparing the to series being paid for by the sponsor of one of the series.

I didn't get through the whole article but from what I did see, it seems like if he was talking about the tracks and how much he loves RA over the tracks he raced at in Lemons, he should have mentioned Lemons is also racing at RA.  The Yellows comment also seemed wrong to me.  Seems Lemons doesn't really have more yellows than Chump, more cars doesn't equal more yellows.

I'm doing kinda chump this weekend in Ensenada. Should be interesting. People seem much more serious on the chump side.

I think the writer's opine can be clued in by his own reply to a comment below the article, read into it what you will...

I found the rest of the article fairly unbiased, although his (understandable) view is as far removed from the original ethos of crap-can racing as is possible. That approach and set of goals really should be re-named "modest-budget-racing". There is nothing "crap-can" about it.

I have nothing against any kind of racing. But lets stop winking and pretending one is the other.

Seems like a pretty honest article.  I do agree with davisriley that there was a lot more contact in Chump.  I like certain aspects of both series.  I do like the more liberal punishment system in Chump, where a spin or four off does not automatically send you to the penalty box, of course I am not really much of a black flag magnet.  The thing I do like best is the constant traffic in Lemons.  When I raced at Laguna last year there were only 30 cars and there were times that I felt like I was alone on the track, makes the racing feel more like qualifying.  By the way, who is the former Indy 500 winner that got the "butter churn" penalty?

Matt Farah, as far as I can tell. Does anyone else write Smoking Tire articles? Just curious who all writes for them.

I did notice that it's categorized as an editorial, so I guess any of my initial misgivings about "lack of reporting" are moot. This is Matt's opinion. Period. Well, there's a sponsor twist to it, but that doesn't bother me. Ray Wert wrote something similar from his experience for Jalopnik from the Gingerman Lemons race (same weekend, incidentally).

I've avoided writing this kind of thing as an actual reported "article" before because it's a complex and thorny subject for a whole lot of reasons. I'd say that comparing West Coast Lemons races to a Chump race on America's longest circuit in the middle of the country is not a one-for-one comparison. Each series has huge regional differences not only in terms of car counts but also in terms of attitudes and driving styles.

I found the article to be well written and I don't disagree with most of the points. But all things being equal, I like my expensive weekends away from home to include a "party on a pirate ship" atmosphere in there someplace. So it looks like I'm running the right series....