NASCAR continues to abandon its customer base

American Thinker ^ | 3 Jun, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

This time, it grovels for the sin of having had Texas Governor Greg Abbott wave a green flag at the All-Star Race.

I have no gay pride. I don’t have gay hatred either. I simply don’t care very much. It’s enough for me that our laws give people equal protection and most Americans no longer consider homosexuality a sin. And that’s probably enough for most people. And I bet most people, like me, dislike the annual barrage of mandatory love for the LGBTQ+++ crowd and especially dislike the industry that’s sprung up around confusing kids about their biological and then giving them expensive, mutilating surgery and toxic drugs. These same people almost certainly don’t make up NASCAR’s fan base. Corporate NASCAR, however, has decided to stand with the LGBTQ++ activists.

Last Sunday NASCAR held its All-Star Race at the Texas Motor Speedway. There’s a big NASCAR fan base in Texas. If you go to the list of NASCAR tracks, you’ll notice that the seating at the tracks is, on average, bigger in conservative states than in progressive states. Thus, the Texas Motor Speedway seats 137,000 fans while the Watkins Glen International in New York seats 33,000 fans. The biggest track, in Indiana, seats 257,325 fans, while the track in Portland, Oregon, holds only 30,000 fans. It’s not a perfect political alignment but it’s plenty close.

NASCAR fans are male, older (over 45), White, and live in the rural South or Midwest. Oh, and they’re much more likely to be Republicans. These are, on average, people like me who neither want to punish nor celebrate the LGBTQ+++ crowd and who support Texas’s willingness to define as child abuse surgical and chemical “gender” treatments performed on children.

NASCAR, though, has been having a bit of a problem keeping fans.

[niteowl77]

The "motorsport" sanctioning bodies have always kissed sponsor azz. Be it the France family or Wally Parks, etc... the gatekeepers and money toadies say "yes, sir" to the suits and then tap dance around the fan base, urinating on their backs and telling them it's raining.

NASCAR has been so blatant about it of late, I can not for the life of me understand why anyone spends a dime on that crap anymore.

[sushiman]

” NASCAR has to be the gayest sport out there with their drivers all go kart champions instead of moonshine runners from rural Alabama. “

My uncle took me to Bridgehampton Raceway on eastern Long Island in 1963 to see the Grand National Race which Richard Petty won . I was 11 . I got Fireball Roberts autograph . Petty won a grand prize money !

[Donkey Odious]

Well said.....

I,too, used to be a big fan back in the day when they were running Detroit iron and raced from the waving of the green to drop of the checkered flag.

The new NASCAR format is not racing.

[eyeamok]

I try to make it a point to never purchase anything from companies that advertise in favor of the alphabet people

[stevio]

Yep. Used to watch football for the manliness and escape from politics. Now NASCAR too. They used to not have races on Easter and Mother’s Day and pray to Jesus before the race. Is any of that still going on? IDK, because I basically stopped watching after the noose thing spectacle.

[Chode]

[Carriage Hill]

I despise, loathe and hate them for what they are doing to our children. No middle ground.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

NASCAR, as well as every other woke corporation in the country, must feel the wrath of the American people. I refuse to pay for evil by proxy or affiliation.

[MtnClimber]

[Delta 21]

NASCAR is dead.

[SuperLuminal]

I began losing (albeit slowly) interest in NASCAR when the “north turn” off the beach was closed and they began building the speedway...

[nicollo]

Phelps claims he doesn't want the brand associated with politics. It is inconceivable that so-called "Pride Month" is not political. In fact, its promoters say it flat out, such as this from People.com this month:

[Pride month] is part political activism, part celebration of all the LGBTQ community has achieved over the years.

Phelps is either stupid, a liar, or just another leftie.

I go w/ that last, which he previously revealed following the "Let's Go Brandon" race from AP:

... It was not clear if NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast, who was wearing a headset, could hear what the crowd was saying during the interview, and she incorrectly told Brown the fans were cheering “Let’s go, Brandon.” ... The phrase has become a rallying cry for Biden’s critics, and “Let’s go, Brandon” is now conservative code for the original vulgar chant.

“It’s an unfortunate situation and I feel for Brandon, I feel for Kelli,” Phelps said. “I think unfortunately it speaks to the state of where we are as a country. We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the left or the right.”

How is your paying public expressing political discontent "unfortunate"? Unless you disagree with the sentiment.

[MtnClimber]

[EastTexasTraveler]

“and most Americans no longer consider homosexuality a sin”

Then they are not Christians. We do not get to “consider” what is or is not a sin. God decides what is sin, and the Bible clearly says homosexuality is a sin.

[minnesota_bound]

NASCAR cars are generic. Might as well make the track into slot car racing.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

They should have corrected that. I’ll do it;

“We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the left or the right.”

Should read “We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the right or the right. We proudly support all peoples’ opinions from Marxists to Maoists.”