[Layla's Keeper]

Should I mention that Gordon HAS strapped into a Rally car for the Race of Champions (along with Jimmy Johnson) and was able to beat the best in the world including Marcus Gronholm?

And that he's going to be doing it again, except also against Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Bourdais, and Tony Kanaan?

And that he drove a Williams F1 car (FW24 chassis I believe) at Indianapolis and was quick enough to qualify within 107% of the top time for the gran prix the year the car was built, and Sir Frank Williams thought enough of Gordon to put him on the list of people he'd want driving on his team (didn't materialize because Gordon felt he didn't have the conditioning for the drive nor that he had enough time left in his career to be competitive).

Or let's talk about Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Both have competed in Grand Am and ALMS races. In fact, both have contested for class and overall wins in Grand Am. Earnhardt Jr. has often said he wants to live out his daddy's dream and go to Le Mans, and if it weren't for the fact that the glut of the NASCAR season was around the same time as Le Mans, Chevy has said they would send him over as part of the Pratt & Miller Corvette factory team.

Tony Stewart frequently runs with Terry Borcheller in Grand Am races. He started in SRP1 with a Crawford LMP chassis and now runs with the #54 Crawford/Pontiac DSP team when NASCAR's schedule allows.

Don't dismiss NASCAR drivers as being somehow inferior to drivers in other disciplines simply because they're in NASCAR. Need I remind you that Christian Fittipaldi, John Andretti, Scott Pruett, and Hideo Fukuyama all proved more or less inept behind the wheel of a NASCAR stock car?

So far, Boris Said has proven to be the only modern day road racer that can competently wheel a stock car, while most stock car drivers have proven competence if not excellence behind the wheel of a road racing machine.