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"The sport alienated and priced its hardcore fans out of attendance."
*Moto Comparison: Four-strokes, four-stroke hop-ups & maintenance, entry-fees several times higher than in the 1990s, ect.
"The drivers are all cookie-cutter just like the tracks. Either rich kids whose dads bought their ride or the sons of former drivers who look and sound more like boy-band pitchmen than race car drivers."
*Moto Comparison: Amateur racers who are well-financed via parents and/or sponsorship have a huge advantage, greater than in the two-stroke/no training camp era. The tracks that are ripped, watered, and full of supercross-style jumps are cookie-cutter in a sense. It seems the powers in play want to standardize the tracks and get away from natural dirt and natural terrain. This in theory would give well-financed riders at training facilities an advantage.
This is just an observation and my opinion. But there may be some truth to this, and maybe we can learn from a sport that is losing popularity. Going back to two-strokes and true amateur racing (no financial compensation aside from bikes/parts/lubes/gear, just doing Loretta's in the summer, kids in school being kids and not at training camps) would be nice, but it's not going to happen. That is unless in time there aren't enough paying participants to support the industry, leading to collapse and no resources left for elite amateur racers.
NASCAR does need some new blood with personality. Danica’s departure is going to hurt their ratings even further. I would tune in each week to see how she did, even though she was pitiful to watch at times. Now I tune in to see how Wallace will do but like the writer said on the Petty team he doesn’t stand much of a chance.
I grew up in autoracing and saw drivers like Donahue, Andretti, Gurney, Foyt etc racing at Riverside and Ontario. I know it is morbid but there was a risk back then that doesn’t take place nowadays. Nascar developed safety measures so the cars do not get airborne and when they have incredible hard hits the drivers walk away like nothing happened. This is great! But it is also taking the risk out of a sport that once had tremendous risk involved.
Back when it was at its heyday NASCAR produced some incredibly boring races. 1 driver winning by a lap, 2nd place a lap down, 3rd 4 Laos down etc.
they did manage to tighten up the field which was much needed. If you ask me it has run it’s course and it has nothing to do with the Chase
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Does anyone actually watch it for the races? Or just the crashes and fights in the stands?
Maybe it being a reason to drink a lot of beer got tired?
Younger people today don't have the attention span to watch nascar.
ARCA has a great kid named Natalie Decker who won the pole at Daytona this year. If it can survive a few more years until she makes the Cup series she will revive the sport.
Ando someone mentioned the fights in the stands? What a joke. The Nascsr crowd and the SX crowd is one in the same. Hate to break it to you but you are on a forum of a hillbilly sport much the same as the one you badmouth
One thing that may change your mind is trying someday to drive one of those cars in a circle. It’s not that easy....ask Juan Pablo Montoya or Dario Franchitti.
I had a buddy who raced locally at Irwindale in the Sportsman series. It may look easy but believe me when I tell you there is a lot more to it than turning left. It’s kinda like SX....sure looks easy on TV. I have newbies watch SX with me and they are like “oh so this is what u did when u were younger”
I’m like oh yeah...that’s just like what I did
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NASCAR can use this. She drove real well at Daytona
On a side note I'm really concerned they'll allow electric bikes compete again ICE bikes and ruin it further. Make a separate class by all means but do whatever you can to keep the ICE the pinnacle.
Imo, the racing has never been more intense and fun to watch. I used to nod off during the 500 milers, but now with stage racing it's more exciting.
But he's right about pricing the fans out. We used to go to 3 to 4 races a year but not now.
NASCAR got greedy when it was very popular. They'd cram you together in the stands and charge you out the ass for tickets. Plus with HDTV it's great to watch at home.
Are you paying attention NFL?
It's starting to happen there as well. Colts tickets are easy to get now. Part of it is because they're not very good right now, but some of it is the owners pricing people out of the games.
The price more than doubled but ?oval hotels tripled and had 3 nice minimum.
Then they moved races from historic tracks .
The sport went bad before the chase.
And,you'd think NASCAR would not look for more things to do to make fans hate them. Then they mandate impact guns.
Sure,teams budgeted a million for them,made them on CNC and had them trick as trick gets.
Now they are junk. Run on air instead of nitrogen and have a shitty hose and regulator.
Teams with money are gonna win no matter what.
I live near MIS, place would be crazy traffic all weekend for the 2 nascar events and Indy car races, didnt dare drive on US12, 223, M52 during race weekends. The traffic seems about half as much as it was in the 90's and 80's/
And for anyone that has not attended a NHRA event I would highly suggest trying it just once, and take anyone you know as I’m sure they will all be impressed. Watching a car go from 0-330 MPH in 4 seconds is something that will amaze you. If you are anywhere near them when they take off they make every organ in your body shake
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