[Vigilanteman]

I'm not a NASCAR fan, but when you compare it to a sissy sport like soccer, it will always be big.

For a casual sports fan like myself, it is a hell of a lot more exciting to see awesome machines driving around the track aggressively and reaching a conclusion than it is to see sissy boys and cave men run around in shorts and not scoring anything.

[blackdog]

Having been involved with their teams in the early 90's, they expanded their brand of racing outside of it's region norms in order to grow it. They went west to California, Nevada, etc....This was a big gamble for them. It worked for a while.

Anytime you grow something by expanding your market into areas where cultural norms are vastly different, things will change.

[dangus]

Yeah, but the sport is born of rednecks, played by rednecks, and watched by rednecks, so NASCAR is pretty damned stupid to be going all NAACP and gay-rights on everyone. The lack of interest among blacks in stock-car racing is no reason to call your own fan base a bunch of ignorant racists.

[Duckdog]

I see it this way. What other sport can last three hours, go 500(or more) miles, and at the end of the finish 1st and 2nd place are less than half a second between them.

Anything else is just a game!