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Klye Busch won the game!!!!
And they say money can't buy you happiness!!
The Shop
She's baaaaad
can go out of business and not broadcast anything.
TM
He is one of the best drivers I've ever seen and I've been following auto racing once the 60's
But I get your point
Pit Row
If you have this conception that the Chase has hurt regular season racing, you're a fool.
My top reasons:
1. The Chase, for some of us, the fact that you have a season champion based off of a few race shootout is just stupid and make the whole thing a joke.
2. Drivers being picked through nepotism instead of driving ability (it seems like every young driver is related to a team owner or driver)
3. High ticket prices
4. Changing focus from it being a race experience into it being a consumer shopping experience
5. Getting rid of short tracks that have exciting races in favor of fancy new 2 mile tracks that are boring.
The reasons for low attendance, from my perspective, is primarily related to numbers 3, 4, & 5 on your list. In particular #5.
In the late 90's - early 00s NASCAR was BOOMING. The sport gained a lot of investment from outside sponsors. Big money developers invaded the sport and started building "cooking-cutter" 1.5mi tracks, and jacking the ticket prices up. The economy tanked and we're left with a sport that looks very little like its roots. Short track racing, beating and banging, tempers flaring --- that's the heart of NASCAR. It's not downforce, splitters, competition cautions, or the "lucky dog."
Before NASCAR switched to the Chase format thirteen years ago, the champion was determined before the last race, often with a few weeks left in the series. Often times it wasn't the driver with the most race wins, but simply the guy who finished in the top 5 - 10 most often. Accordingly, the championship really didn't mean shit, excitement-wise, to me. It was just an afterthought compared to the race each week.
I have no problem with the champion being decided with a few races to go, so classic points format is good for me. My interest is in the week-to-week, hard-nose, aggressive racing of everyone racing for the best finish possible..... putting the best stuff they had into the car every week in order to find something to get better for the next race and all the races after that, not just for one of the final 10 races of the year.....seeing who can find something in themselves or their car and get a run going to chase points down and vie for a championship.
Say a driver is doing great in points and now they have a wreck caused by someone else in one of the 3-race qualifier rounds, then your chance at the championship just took a huge hit. Ability to move on was just removed from the driver's and team's hands. Luck becomes too big of a player in the chase format.
I view the best racer of the year the one who can handle any track thrown at them, not necessarily the one who gets several ones at a specific type of track. And sure, a champion might end the season without the most wins, but that is series championship racing. Same goes for any sport; best record-holding NFL team may not win the Super Bowl.
Since the championship is no longer determined so much by the week-to-week racing, people wait until the Chase starts and then start paying attention. So sure, the last 10 races have great attendance and viewership, but the remaining 26 races are hurt drastically.
There is a reason that NASCAR stopped releasing attendance numbers in 2012.
Am I the only one that feels this way about the chase format...no. Do others feel the same way as I do...yes. The big question is how many? 10%? 20%? Let''s go conservative....if there's a 10% reduction in fandom due to chase format, then there you have the 10% reduction that's in line with ISC ticket sales, as well as weekly TV ratings. To compound that, you take a 10% drop in talk around the water-cooler and the opportunity to grab new fans just decreased as well. Until something changes, the decrease will compound and continue.
Per ISC "Ticket sales at International Speedway Corporation (ISC) tracks dropped 8.3% from March through May, but company executives don't expect that trend to continue through the end of the year. The ISC 2016 second quarter financial results include NASCAR weekends at six tracks - Phoenix, Auto Club (California), Martinsville, Talladega, Richmond and Kansas - as well as motorcycle events at Daytona and an IndyCar race at Phoenix. The IndyCar race was a new event, signaling that the NASCAR events had a bigger drop than 8.3% in ticket sales."
"The average ticket price for a Sprint Cup ticket bought at its six races from March through May was $72.09, down 3% from a year ago."
Furthermore, from Forbes: "During NASCAR’s heyday in the mid-2000’s, coverage regularly drew Nielsen ratings in the mid-to-high 4-range. In 2005, for example, TNT coverage topped out at a 4.7, and that number has steadily declined in the decade since."
What year did the chase format start? 2004. The public gave NASCAR 2 years under the Chase format before they realized it wasn't for them and they started tuning out.
In 2014, NASCAR adjusted the chase format to put more importance on race wins rather than points earned. 2.5 seasons later, still no increase in attendance or viewership.
This is why I am worried if the chase format comes to SX.
Get an Amazon Fire TV box for anywhere between $40-$99. Connect this device to your TV using HDMI cable. Connect it to the internet either wireless or with Ethernet cable.
Next, download the NBC Sports App to the Amazon box. You do have to verify that you have a cable tv subscription to login to the NBC Sports app. So use your DirecTV, Comcast, Verizon login etc.
Now you are watching all 4 motos live in HD. You can even watch practice in the morning!! This is especially helpful since DirecTV does not carry MAVTV in HD at all.
Cool, now you just watched all 4 motos in HD. Now what?
Now go cancel your DirecTV, Comcast, U-Verse account and signup for PlayStation VUE and save yourself quite a bit of money.
Good. Now you signed up for VUE. Go to your Amazon box and download the PlayStation VUE app and start watching LIVE TV at a much lower cost. Yes, you can still DVR your shows.
And yes, when the next race rolls around you can verify your account on the NBC Sports app using your Play Station View credentials.
Last but not least... go have a beer. Hug your wife and kids and promise never to give your money to DirecTV again.
Signed,
Former DirecTV customer and now full time cord-cutter.
This would increase numbers and ultimatly increase overall profits.
A day out at the races, any form of races, is a massive investment for a family.
Its not like these drivers really need all that money.
Same goes for the motocross as well.
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