Dear Lord, this is dreary music. I’m sure that whoever picked this piece is a volunteer, but let’s face it, he is not doing anything to advance the listenership of classical music by playing this piece. I for one am sorely tempted to turn the radio off and watch the Daytona 500 on TV. 3 hours of racing has got to be better than 13 minutes of this piece by a long shot.
I grew up with stock car racing. I did not grow up with classical music. My grandmothers probably listened to classical music, but nobody else did. My dad listened to easy listening on WZEZ. There are no easy listening stations north of Orlando anymore. I may have my geography wrong, but I believe Daytona is north of Orlando. It’s west anyway, which is sort of the same thing culturally speaking. Things are looser in the west, and you can do things like race cars on the beach.
That’s where they raced before the speedway. I don’t know if there was a speedway and then a super speedway or just a super speedway, but you can use Wikipedia just as easily as I can. When you do look it up, you will find that Daytona is a “tri-oval” and you might wonder how that is possible. Don’t ask, just accept it as you would any other tenant of true belief. And root for somebody because it makes it more interesting.