Maybe we’re beginning to realize that Robert Heinlein was right about professional athletes and entertainers being mistaken for people of significance.
Nothing can grow forever. It may have just hit it’s plateau. But there are still a lot of NASCAR fans and I don’t see it going anywhere
What year was it that Moochelle and Biden’s old lady “grand marshals” at NASCAR?
Oh, it was 2011.
Have they tried going fast and turning right for three hours?
Here’s a question I have for NASCAR fans...I used to have XM radio in my car, and it had not only a radio station named NASCAR, but also a second one named NASCAR2.
How in the world can there be so much to talk about this? I mean, when it is 2 am during off season, what are they going to talk about on NASCAR2?
The Sprint, Nationwide, Camping Truck Series and all the smaller circle track entities have
a limited supply of dollars to split amongst themselves. Ticket prices continue to rise and
the growth of home tv options can definetly impact their profitability. jmo.
And how much is the "End Hunger" people paying to sponsor Jeff Gordon's car?
Gotta be at least 5 million a year.
If they just spent that much on feeding children, there'd BE no hunger. Ohhhhhhh. Wait a minute. I may have stumbled across something here.
And then you add to it that the cars all look the same. And absolutely NOTHING like what's on the road. Hard to build brand loyalty when you can't tell the brands apart.
And since you asked, the cars are more like slot cars than stock cars. With the huge rear spoiler and front air dam and side spoiler, you may as well just have the car owners drive the cars by remote control from the roof where the spotters stand.
Then there's the ticket prices. The last race we went to was about ten years ago and the tickets were 50 bucks. I can't imagine what they are today. The hamburgers were ten bucks (again, ten years ago), bottles of water were 4 dollars (and they took the caps off before they handed you the water). You could barely fit a stick figure in the "seats".
And then there's the announcers. Don't even get me started on the announcers. Too late. The announcers suck. They are so bored with what's going on on the track they don't even bother commenting when there is three-wide racing or a challenge for the lead or anything remotely connected to what's going on on the track at the time. Two laps after a lead change, they'll say something like, "Oh, looky there. Someone else is leading. We'll get back to you on that as soon as we spew a few more idiotic statistics and useless technical mumbo-jumbo."
Juan Pablo Montoya went back to Indy Cars.
The bottom line of NASCAR is boys that grow up to be men with families that have a love of the engine, the smell of gas and burning rubber, the thrill of near death experiences ... all of which are conditioned out of our boys.
I thank God for my two blue collar, motorhead sons that like to drink beer and do relatively harmless "hold m'beer" stunts.
Why would anyone follow a particular driver when it's a crap shoot from the get go?
In my opinion, the France family has ruined racing.
Is bump drafting still allowed?
NASCAR itself has gotten to big for their heads. It’s all money driven nowadays. Watching a local short track is just as much fun for me.
Coming from yahoo Sports, you have to take it with a grain of salt.
I doubt they would do this sort of story with any ball sport.
Nascar’s decline in team value is all related to advertisers. And that is related to the general economy.
Maybe they should go back to racing stock cars.
When they changed it from the Winston Cup to the Massengill Cup the writing was on the wall. lol
There are two words that killed NASCAR. Dale Earnhardt.