Do you remember when NASCAR was fun. It really wasn’t all that long ago you were drinking beer, the sport was competitive, there were 36 races that mattered, not just 10. I enjoyed going to races and watching them on TV, but that time has long since come and gone and NASCAR has left us with a bunch of reasons not to watch and here they are.
1. The Car Of The Future
I am all about making your sport safer, especially when people are driving at 200 mph, but in no sport does equipment matter as much, if not more, than the athletes in the sport. I mean the car is what wins the race, if you are tight, loose, slow, getting bad gas mileage, lacking aerodynamics you will lose a race, but shouldn’t you be allowed to control some of those factors? But thanks to the car of the future teams have lost all competitive advantages that come with driving a specific brand. Seriously you can’t tell a Toyota from a Chevy. What is the point of even having makes/models anymore? Require your teams to have specific safety regulations, but don’t force everyone to drive the exact same car.
2. The Chase
Year after year the chase ruins the regular season. You have 26 races that ultimately lead you to a 10 race playoff system. You get some bonus points for winning extra races and leading most laps, but not enough to give you a real competitive edge in the chase. And what playoff system lets everybody compete? Seriously could you imaging an NFL playoff where you had to compete with teams that had nothing to shoot for? How can 10 drivers compete when there are 33 other drivers on the track with no purpose but to be in your way. If you want a playoff system make a real one. But stop pushing this bullshit one on us and telling us it makes it more competitive.
3. The Schedule
Come on now, can we change this up a bit? How many times does Jimmy Johnson have to win a championship before you realize that the schedule needs to be changed? I know he is a good driver, but his strengths lie in the last 10 races of the season. He had 4 wins in the chase compared to 3 in other 26 races of the season. I bet if you put 7 of Tony Stewarts best tracks in the Chase he would win 4 years straight too.
4. The Lucky Dog
If you are a lap down you are a lap down. Be a professional and get your own lap back dammit.
5. Danica Patrick
Who cares.
Anyway, those are just some of my frustrations with NASCAR I really used to be into this sport, but have pretty much lost all interest in it. What is your take on it? Let me know in the comments below.
Never did like nascar all that much anyway. I love racing though so I’d watch some of their races, Daytona, etc. Anyone can drive a car 200 mph banging off each others fenders. Driving a car at 230 mph and not being able to touch another car knowing you’re out of the race and maybe your life? Well now that’s racing. Take the fenders and roofs of the nascars and see just how good the good ole boys are at driving. How many nascar drivers have ever gone over to open wheel? But yet the flip flop to nascar from open wheel is tremendous. Shows where the talent is and I suppose the money at this point but the money wasn’t in nascar 20 years ago it was all in open wheel. Anyway the chase is boring! want to make it exciting, do like all the other professional sports, eliminations! 12 drivers start in the chase, 1st race finish 12th you’re gone, no longer eligible for the cup, next race finish 11th, you’re gone and so on.
WOOOOOO LEFT TURNS! WOOOOOO!
Dave,
Lots of racers leave open wheel just to fail in NASCAR. So don’t be giving them too much credit.
Financially the $ is greater in NASCAR. The now defunct CART series shares were selling for .20 a piece about 9 years ago. The only open wheel race anyone actually cares about is Indy and I don’t even watch that one any more. I really don’t care to see a guy with the last name of “itti” win anything.
NASCAR packs people in week after week, I agree it has lost its appeal, but man o man for a while it was fun….
Adam, true, there have been a few drivers that have gone from open wheel to nascar the past couple of years that couldn’t make it. Over the long haul though more have done very well in that series, all the way back to AJ Foyt. More have made it in the series or at least won races than have failed. I can name a lot more who have done well in that series than I can that haven’t. Just in recent years John Andretti, Tony Stewart, Robbie Gordon & Juan Pablo Montoya. Hornish Jr. has even managed to stick around but that’s just because of Penske otherwise he would’ve been out by now too.
Don’t slack the Indy car series and its drivers. This series was #1 in America since the beginning of racing and with nascars back slide they can be back on top of American motor sports real soon. The best drivers and stars have always come from open wheel racing be it cart, formula one, indy or the silver crown series. Open wheel racing is about driving, not banging and wrecking.
Petry, can you say Unser, Patrick, Fischer, Bell, Lazier, Carpenter, Roth, Simmons, Foyt, Sharp, Rice, Want me to keep going? Even Andretti, all American born and bred Indycar drivers. Yes it’s true there are a lot of foreigners in open wheel racing period, but that’s because it’s a world wide sport. If your a fan there are plenty of blue blooded American stars to root for.
This is Indiana Folks! Hoosiers are all about basketball & open wheel racing!
Here are the top 5 ways to improve nascar:
5. Remember the part in ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ where they have the big wheel race, but they must shotgun a beer prior to every lap? Race cars have wheels and laps are involved, and it would be great for the sponsors to have their driver seen chugging their delicious cold product on national TV (though the Jack Daniel’s driver would be in some serious trouble around lap 3 or so).
4. One car should randomly have a banana placed in the tailpipe prior to the flag dropping, and the driver caught with it after his car backfires will be required to step out of the car, throw his helmet in disgust and yell ‘dag-nabbit!!’ at the top of his lungs.
3. 2 words: blowjob lap.
2. To go along with what David said, not only should the last place driver be eliminated from championship contention, every remaining driver should get a turn with his wife on that week’s pay-per-view ‘Race for her Face’.
1. It should somehow just be turned into goddamn football and not last 36 goddamn months per season. Goddamnit.
2003. That’s when NASCAR was fun. You know, when Jimmy Johnson was an up and coming young driver, Tony Stewart was a threat to win the cup and a total jackass, Jeff Gordon was still considered dominant, and Dale Jr was still considered a good driver. Ahh, those were the days. I had a lot of fun going to Joliet to watch the races back then. To be honest, I would still attend a race and I’m sure it would be a blast like it always was, but I don’t care much to watch it on TV, seems like there is always something better on.
And Adam you are definitely right about the Chase. I think that has had the biggest single impact on why its losing some popularity. NASCAR officals continuing to insist that its a good thing is one of the biggest examples of denial in recent memory. How would you like to be a part of the chase fighting for points to win the cup and have a driver not in the chase put you into the wall on accident. Dumb ass playoff system. Its right up there with the FedEx cup on the PGA tour
I am a Hoosier, but I don’t enjoy basketball or open wheel racing, or any Indiana sports teams. Maybe I am more of a Chicagoan than a Hoosier.
@Chris I just read through that shit and some of it would definitely make the races more interesting.
Adam: I am definitely with you on the Chicagoan thing. It’s hard to get behind a ‘local’ college hoops team that is either 90 minutes or 4 hours away, and I personally find Indy to be a boring, if not dreadful place to visit.
Get it back like the old days. Cars had to be available to the public, at least 500, before it could race. Whatever happened to that. Take off the restrictor plates, they suck. Drive the car as fast as you can and if you suck as a driver you will be out of the race. North American Stock Car Racing Association. When was the last time you could buy a Toyoda Camry with a V-8? How about a Ford Fusion? duhhhhh
Dave,
Thanks for stopping by the site. I completely agree. It is the nuiances of the motor, body, supsension, in the makes and models that makes NASCAR competitive to some extent. You need more than just driver ability determining the outcomes of these races.
NASCAR needs to look in the mirror and see their best years are behind them and if they want to recover their fan base they should go back to the rules and cars of the day.
Man you just stated all my frustrations with the sport. Im a third generation fan and grew up going to races and watching on TV every weekend, and now it just pains me to watch something that I used to care so much about go down the drain.
It is obvious that your 5 Reasons are why the tv rating are down and stands are empty, but the owners and executives are just too blind and arrogant to go back I believe. They think they can tell us what we will like to watch and we will grin a bear it…
I wish there would be another true STOCK car series that could gain enough support to eclipse NASCAR but from what I have seen anytime someone tries they get run out of town… Or NASCAR could just go back to what works.
It is tough to break into any sport, a lot of people with a lot of money have started all kinds of sporting leagues to fail. When owners and administrators have so much pull with track or arena owners and sponsors it is tough to break that high barrier of entry. Change is good, but so is admitting your mistakes and moving back to a good system. I hope NASCAR and get it together and become a competitive sport again, I just don’t see it happening any time soon.
Whats even worse that The France Family (spelling) owns a majority in everything….No one person, hell even a corporation could buy them out totally!!!
Nascar totally sucks now and I used to go to Charlotte and the Brickyard every year. It is not the same as it was in the late 80′s when I started following it. It is about making as much $$ as possible and screw the fans (ie: go to Joliet). Racing is not the same as there is no more #3 putting rookies in their place and making races interesting. The sport has changed and would someone please punch theresa earnhardt and danica patrick in the face. If I ever need a nap after a long night of reading posts on fanbrew–I just turn on the race, golf, Cubs, or bowling–most of the time its nascar though. Do enjoy the clueless hotties though at the races as they only know 1 driver–”Dell Jr.” who has the Cubs hex on him and will never win a championship because Dell Jr has the kyle Petty curse of unrealistic expectations/pressures. The good ol boys got a good taste of green in the mid 90′s when the sport exploded with the yuppies and more tracks being built and they took it from there. Its as dead as the NBA….
Completely Agree! Well said.
I agree. Nobody mentioned the scripted interviews at the end of the race…the scripted sip of Coke…the hung up smiles and the boring spin-outs at the end of the race. I used to love this sport. I lived in Indy and went to the 1st Brickyard. It was great. Chicagoland is finally getting a tasted of what they have laid on its customer base…People won’t attend a boring screwfest.
I live in indy, this is what happened to the 500. They wanted to bring in the casual fan and “build the brand”, thus alienating the hard core fan base. Taking away the snake pit, no more camping the the coke lot and infield, making it more family friendly, the problem is, kids grow up and out of it.
I have been to every race at the track since 1968 when my father started taking me. The only races I have misses were 4 years while in the Army and me and my buddies went to the German and Belgian GP’s.
My father also took me to all the bull rings around here and in OKC while growing up. I know Eldora and the other dirt tracks well. I go to the fairgrounds for the Hoosier 100. This includes sitting in the Hurricane watching MotoGP at IMS.
I go to IRP for the Nationals and other types of races, including the night before the 500. I know IRP is o’reilly now. For God’s sake 5 years ago “sprint cup” was something besides sprint and before that is what it really is “WINSTON CUP”. Bleep these pinheads that only want to maximize their bottom line without making a better product.
I am a hard-core racing fan.
When the hard core fan base packed up and left, they were ok until the newcomer’s kids grew a little, then they left.
With so much to do, you MUST cater to the CORE fan and hope you can garner some casual fan support, if not you are doomed.
When JAPCAR allowed the rules to be written by crapoyota they lost %30 of their fans right there. Going to spec racing allowed another %30 of hard core fans to leave. This left %40 hard core, and %30 casual fans, leaving a whopping %30 no shows. JAP-A-CRAP-CAR will never recover.
I went the first year CRAPOLA was run wearing a bright yellow shirt with my comments written on them. I will never again spend another thin dime on GIBBS-the-ANTI_CHRIST holier than though traitor and the rest of the France family, isn’t france a bad word in America anyway.
I have been offered many tickets to this event every “race” since and I have offered to pee on the tickets if they even brought them out.
The old parable about the bird looking at his reflection and wanting both worms applies here.
Rule changes for all top level motor racing, open wheel and cans alike.
1. Here is how much it can weigh.
2. Here is how wide it can be.
3. Here is how tall it can be.
4. Here is the fuel it will run.
I would rather see 12 great cars at the pinnacle than 8 good cars and however many cars of lessening ability.
They say they want to keep cost down but when you have so many rules, a %1 difference can be the edge for winning. The %1 can only be gained by the big, rich teams. If you stifle innovation and creativity you stifle the entire series and the competition within.
Now I will have a beer and watch naked women on the tv…. those with teeth, not pot bellied CRAPCAR ones…
ps. as an aside, I quit watching Hockey and Baseball when they quit on me. If the NFL does the same, it will be doomed.
ps. we used to call it wwf on wheels but it was kind of fun… and does anyone believe jr. won that race in the 3 car without a little wink, wink, nudge, nudge, help…..
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Lose the stupid sunglasses. Next thing they’ll be wearing their hats sideways.
A race is not a race when it end with a yellow flag. When you drove 8 hours to see it happens you make sure you don’t go back.
The problem with NASCAR is that the fan base moved from spending the weekend at the races to Sunday afternoons watching the NFL!
Until NASCAR comes up with a plan or scheme if you will, to lure back the hardcore fan base, they have no chance at the casual NASCAR fan like me.
Nascar wants to know why they are losing fans yet one has to wonder why they don’t know. They put the last Chase races on ESPN and there are so many of us that don’t get ESOPN SPEED TNT. Whay is wrong with keeping it where more people are able to see it. THAT IS ONE REASON WHY NASCAR SUCKS NOW……
That is very true. Most sports organizations have moved channels and it alienates fans. For my entire life I watched the Cubs on WGN, now I have to search through 4 different channels to find them and sometimes can’t find them at all. Terrible for viewership.
If crapcar thinks it has a problem now….. just wait to see what happens if toysucko wins the championship….
Gigity Gigity aight. Great post and response’s. Alot of you had alot of good point’s. Nascar used to be awesome i think it had the longest sellout streak of any sport. The new car sucks, Toyota needs to get the fook out. Tony stewart is the man he left gibbs rather then sell his soul. Omg will they get rid of the chase Kevin harvick the real champ of the 2010 season just as tony stewart should of last year. Is nascar so fkn dumb that they havent realized that jimmie johnson has figured out there stupid playoff system. 5 str8 championships give me a break he should of never even won one. Dale Jr is a joke period. Go back 2 the good old days of the winston cup series thats right i said it winston cup. Bring back rockingham i loved that track. get rid of the lucky dog omg thats an even dumber idea than the chase
double file restarts are retarded, i honestly enjoy the nationwide series over the sprint cup lol sprint cup give me a break a cell phone company sponsoring a mans sport. And the Number one reason nascar sucks and died is because may he rest in peace the great earnhardt died and nascar died with him. he must be spinning in his grave watching this crap from heaven all he did to build that series to what it was and this is what they did to it. Go back to your roots or get th hell out the france family sucks u fkn sellouts. id rather watch drivers like derrick cope and kenny wallace and even jeff gordon atleast he has talent. these new driver are a bunch of panzies just stfu and drive i dont care what u have 2 say u drive a car for a living your cool. wait to you lose all your money that how wife u got will go with the money losers.
thank god for kyle busch if he would just drive something other than toyota hed be the man. F#*k Nascar go back to the good ol days or rott in hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I had some of the drugs Quagmire was on……..
@Al Bundy,
I think the only drug Quagmire is on is frustration with a boring league.
What a bunch of whining babies on here. If they would have never invented the chase and left it alone or invented a new car people would still be crying about something nascar is doing wrong. Attendance and popularity are down for several reasons. The main one being the economy not because nascar built a new car or invented the chase. I for one don’t like the new car vs the old car and do think they need to give a little more leadway on what can and can’t be done. As for the chase i think it has been a positive thing for the sport even though i’m not a jimmy johnson fan.
Brian,
Thanks for the comment. I think the chase is a bunch of garbage. I love the new point system as it really reward consistency, but allowing people to compete in a playoff when they have no chance of winning the championship doesn’t make sense. If you want to keep the chase you have to get rid of the 30 cars on the track that don’t deserve to be there.
The #1 thing that pisses me off the most about NASCAR is allowing drivers to race in more than one NASCAR series. Seriously it is so stupid! It blocks talent out of Nationwide and Camping World when Sprint Cup drivers are also racing in them. Jesus! Stick to one series! Do these Sprint Cup guys really suck so bad that they have to get laps and notes running Nationwide and Camping World for the big Sprint Cup race?
robin pemberton has destoryed nascar. he needs to go w/ the car of tomorrow and the lack compatition in nascar what was a great sport has become predictible. we need a person to take the sport back to what it was late 90′s early 2000′s .stop changing things so super teams can exced while smaller teams strugle .
A 600 mile race is Just a boring joke until the last 30 laps. That of course if you saved enough fuel. Simple Solution just go back to the the old rules and regulations from 30 years ago.
Nascar is not REAL racing. Rally, F1, GT racing and drift is actual racing. Whoever likes nascar is an idiot redneck living off welfare.
A year old thread that is still relevant! I remember the REAL Stock car races of the 60s and 70s on CBS. There is nothing unique anymore. The movie Cars is more exciting in its variations than today’s NASCAR. But….
I found this blog searching for “NASCAR SUCKS ON CABLE.” Here, the wife is away, I have a free afternoon, I don’t waste money on the TV crap on cable or satellite and only watch broadcast when I watch TV at all. Well, the rest of the season is apparently on TNT or some such cable crap. Oh well, the local fox channel has some kind of open wheel racing going on and that’s usually more interesting anyway. Bye bye boring and bloated nascar! (Lower case intentional.)
At 52 years old, I have loved, watched, attended, or worked as crew at NASCAR, whatever CART, IRL, INDYCAR (another ruining of once great racing) F1, SCCA, and NHRA. I roadraced and was a championship autocrosser. No one was more interested for years than I. Now I couldn’t tell you where NASCAR is this weekend, or who won the last race. No suprise to me seats are empty. Racing was REAL men driving cars that mechanics and builders used their ingenuity and wits to make the best and fastest car. Long hours hard work and creativity were put in to get a little more power, better handling, whatever little advantage you could. Manufacturers would help with special and improved parts. Certainly drivers were stars, but many fans wore Ford or Chevy or Dodge hats with pride. As long as a Ford won I was happy whichever driver it was, and I booed Earnhardt just because he drove a Chevy. Sometimes one brand or team or car body or chassis would actually be better than another! A motor might have more power, or a new model car would have better aero and go faster. Some year were Ford years, some Chevy, Dodge, Pontiac. Bill Elliots’ Thunderbirds and Ernies’ motors could raise the bar, go FASTER and kick butt. Crew chiefs had their own fans, genius and rules stretching also made winners. This is RACING! Now improving your car is not discouraged it is NOT ALLOWED! Every car must exactly match a bunch of templates! Cars are dynoed if one brand has more power they adjust the rules! The bodies do not even resemble any real car, they must be EXACTLY the same! Vinyl graphics are the only way you can identify a car. This is SPEC Racing and it’s BORING! And STUPID! Who said every team, every mfg, every motor, every driver should be exactly the same and have the same chance to win EVERY race? Win on Sunday, sell on Monday? HA! Decals are the only difference. Why are carmakers involved at all? NASCAR might as well make factory built cars which all teams are required to buy. Apply your own decals. Guess I better leave out restrictor plate “borefests until one idiot takes out half the field” and corporate vanilla viceless castrated automaton drivers (perhaps robots with graphic faces, monitored response times, and equal weight would be even better). Also safer cars are great, I don’t want to see injury or death, but a car which any unskilled scion can crash in any way into anything at any speed uninjured is a technical feat, not a race car. A RACECAR can be scary and dangerous (and EXCITING)! Sorry I ranted-thanks all fans- GOOD LUCK selling BOREDOM, NASCAR!
It is as simple as this.
Nascar died the day Earnhardt died.
I used to be a nascar fan – that is until they messed with the cars, the tracks, and the rules. My favorite track, Bristol, is now just as boring as the rest. The resurfacing a rebanking of 2007 turned the old bump and run into 3 wide snoozefest. I said to **** with nascar and I got into dirt track racing a couple of years back. The lucas oil and world of outlaws series whips the **** out of nascar. Lots of action and great drivers that aren’t ruled by sponsorship $$$$. Heck, the local dirt shows around where I live are more entertaining than nascar. I’m at one of the local tracks every week!
A chimp can do that!
NASCAR just sucks in general.. It’s hardly a race.. OMFG a right turn crash.. come on now.. oval tracks are effing ballz lame.
Aside the fact that all the cars are the exact same.. and it’s boring as hell to watch.
I used like some nascar races but I agree with you guys nascar sucks I hate how they have pit crews and they determine if the driver wins a race or not that is not good racing. Also I agree what playoff system lets everyone compete and it is very boring on an oval or tri oval track running hundreds of laps. Yeah I hate nascar!!!!
I have been a fan of Nascar since the 60′s. I have always love the races till the last 10 yrs or so. Nascar started screwing up with the restrictor plates. If they used the car bodies that comes on the cars they would not need the plates. They have designed the cars to be so airodynamic they are like rockets. When Bill Elliot was burning up the tracks in the 80′s ( over 200 mph) at Daytona & Talladega their cars didn’t fly off the tracks , it was only the cars getting spun around backwards. If they would take the cars off the showroom floor & designed them & add the extra weight needed to keep them on the tracks. Let them race back to the caution , Get rid of the Lucky Dog Pass, & also the pass around. & faster pit road speed under green flag stops. Get rid off the Car Of Tommorrow. This would make a good start to filling up the Grand Stands again. Nascar needs to go back to the old days of racing!!
Nascar use to be decent when it was there for the drivers. this was the whole purpose of Bill France creating Nascar. But it went from being an enjoyable sport to a money making racket and that is all it’s about today. If Nascar isn’t making money hand over fist, it is not happy. They’re rule book is more like a comic book. If they don’t think you are good enough to make them money, they won’t let you become part of the “family”.
Nascar has become a 43 car IROC race where everyone runs the same car. Qualifying is an absolute joke. A lot of drivers know before they even get to the track that their chances of getting in the field are about as good as them running through hell with gasoline soaked pants on. Because someone won a championship back when Nascar was still running dirt or they have enough money to finish in a good spot in owners points (another joke), they the little guy won’t be running. Bull$h!t! If 60 cars show up at the track and take time trials, 17 of them are going home because they didn’t run fast enough. Just because one of their money making hero’s won a championship years ago doesn’t have nothing to do with the fact he can’t get his car up to speed in time trials. If John Force, Cruz Pedregon or Larry Dixon don’t qualify for a spot at the drag strip, they go home. If you crash or spin out during time trials, you shouldn’t get a back-up car and go race without qualifying just because your car owner has money and points or because you won a championship in the past. Run fast enough to get in the field or pack your bags and try again next week. Believe me people, Washington is not the only place where politics run rampant.
Sunday at martinsville GREAT
Talledega Daytona suck with this two car draft. Im just glad the #3 doesnt have to see this farce
Nascar and Indy racin sucks. Its like taking a swift kick in the nuts and payin to watch it. Play golf watch football there is something better to do than watchin cars in a circle. Play video games its very similar to the shit you are paying to watch! Jokes over wrench boy this need will dissolve. Its not a sport its who can control the nintendo pad better! SErouisly!
I went to Bristol night race this year. It was a joke………I think the race had 3 cautions for debris and 3 for wrecks. The sponsors don’t want the car wrecked. But if I was a sponsor I would want a driver that had a bad reputation that was willing to bump someone out of the way for a win. I could probably name every sponcer Dale Sr had. But I couldn’t tell you crap about Nascar now. They keep making bad choices. A few years ago Mike Helton made a statement that Nascar was not a sport for RED NECKS. Tell me if I’m wrong but that’s about 99.8% of the fan base.
If you watch a race on TV they have a commercial about every 3 laps. I own a business and it’s hard to keep my head above water. But if something is not broken then why fix it. At Bristol this this year I had seats empty all around me.
Long story short Nascar needs to go back to the Winston Cup years! When Nascar was fun to watch. Because it’s sold out just like our country.
Nascar was good when I watch it back during the 90′s, but now I hate it since I found out about other style’s of racing. Ive seen F1 and all the other rolex race’s but nothing gets my blood pumping like Touge(mountain hill’s) racing, watching two cars race at full speed on a downhill is crazy. I think the U.S. needs to do these types of races or at least let the driver’s change the body of their car but that just my 2¢.
I don’t have your credentials, but I grew up in the shadow of IMS and attended the first 10 Brickyards and 14 500s (’82 to ’96). I have lost all interest in motorsports of any kind. Hell, I have lost all interest in any professional sports league. Colts in 2011? Peyton is out, so they’re 0-11? Are they really a one-man team? I just don’t care about any pro sports, because regardless of the league, it’s all about the $$$. But then, isn’t that just America, in general? Everything needs lubricant now, so it doesn’t hurt so much when you bend over…
I think they’ve gotten so far out of touch with the fans that it’s ridiculous. Every little band-aid they try to do is just a short-term attempt to fix a long-teerm problem–gimmicks. The top-35 rule–all about money and nothing else; meant to keep the big name sponsors happy and has nothing to do with racing. The fact that D Patrick (or anyone similar, for that matter) is guranteed to start in the 500 without turning a single lap of SC competition is absolutely ludicrous. With all their band-aids, it’s like pushing a rope, with no one on the other end to pull it, because the fans aren’t buying it. I truly believe the catalyst for many of their problems were the mutli-car teams–they let it get too big and now there is little separation between the individual teams/drivers/crews–it’s about the organization more than the individual teams. One of the final straw for me was when they broke Bristol–who ever thought that fans wanted to see side-by-side racing at Bristol should be taken out to the woodshed–the one-groove racing, fighting for that coveted piece of real estate on the bottom is what made Bristol great, then they broke it!
NEVER BEEN THE IN THE LAST 35 YEARS AND EARNHAERT WAS WAY OVER RATED LEE PETTY WAS THE KING OR REAL STOCK CAR RACING AND HIS SON WAS AMD IS THR HEIR TO THE KINGS SEAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y’all think Nascar sucks??! Really! Yes, It has changed but only a true Nascar fan loves everything that Nascar has to offer to keep the drivers safe! Anybody watch the Budweiser Shootout Saturday? Jeff Gordon flips and he gets out and walks away from a scary wreck. The same with Danica Patrick and the other guy in the Truck race friday night they were able to walk away unharmed. Nascar does not suck y’all suck!
What a crappy sport, I’d rather watch professional darts that is even more interesting, Lets watch 200 laps of the same damn crap the only interesting part is when one of those drivers crashes but unfortunate when they aren’t harmed, Sure there are more things that pollute but why pollute for a boring and shitty sport as such? Enough said, driving in a circle is great fun.
Daytona. After waiting over two hours for track repair and listening to the mostly meaningless hot air coming from the announcers Daytona gets back underway. 38 laps to go and what happens at 36 laps to go? A commercial break. they couldn’t get through the commercials during the two hours of waiting for the track to be fixed? There are more commercials than during the late late late show on TV. I have watched my last race.
Congrats nascar I am watching this boring ass race at Bristol where half the seats are empty. Wonder why?