Maybe they can install some of them removed seats on 'em.. or auction them off.
Thanks for all the rides, now sit down and Let's Go Racin'!!
Front wheel drive family sedans killed NASCAR. That and the end of big time bootlegging.
Unintentionally funny.
Costs are too high. You can’t even look at a picture of a seat for less than $50 at Michigan Speedway.
Personally I’ve always thought they should build up a big dirt berm along the backstretch and charge a flat $20 to sit on the grass.
NASCAR no longer represents “Stock Cars”.
Long gone are the days when your car looked like the one on the track, Thunderbird vs. Camaro SS vs. Impala, etc.
No they are just expensive “formula” cars, and there is no real attachment to them.
Washington's 1984 "Newspeak" has finally surfaced at mainline Amurika.
10 years ago, we bought tickets to Dover regardless of whether we were going because we dared not be moved to waiting list which was many years. Nowadays, they cant give away enough tickets to fill the tracks
They can remove my seats after November 2015. NASCAR has become less fan friendly every year over the past 5 or 6 years. Now they’ve done away with the driver souvenir haulers. The bucks not the folks are now number one. During the November PIR race, the drivers stay up in Vegas all week selling car parts at the convention up there. They only come to the inconvenient PIR when they are needed on the track. I really wish I hadn’t purchased my season tickets for this year. I’ll watch it on TV from now on. There is no reason to go to the track anymore. Just my two cents.
NASCAR lost me when they went with the “official” car profile template. Every car has an identical profile with nearly identical engines and drive trains. The only difference in the cars is the name plate for advertising.
It’s no longer manufacturers competing, it’s become a staged spectacle.
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I’d rather watch swamp buggy racing. Those good ole boys do it right! Of course, once Speed Channel was bought by the Earnharts, real racing went away.
I haven’t seen F1, autocross, gymkhana, World Rallye, or anything other than NASCAR and/or suicidal motorcyclists on that channel in years.
When Dale Sr. died, the sport started to die also.
I’ve noticed in the last four or five seasons that NASCAR attendance has really dropped off. The stands used to be pretty much full, now I see thousands of empty seats. Motor sports in general seem to be in decline. The Indy 500 isn’t half of what it used to be, and sports car racing is now almost invisible.
Brian France is an idiot. His daddy and granddaddy are rolling over in their graves.
Lots of problems and causes, but as with Tony George’s ruination of the Indy 500 the youngest France generation let the marketing tail wag the racing dog.
A cup only holds so much water. When the sun going behind a cloud or a flock of birds taking off merits a sponsor mention, you are in Overkill Land.
I just happened to watch some extended race footage from 1996-97 and it was amazing to see the focus on the competition i.e. the racing. Minimal graphics for the running order, sparse commercial interruptions, no fake yellow flags, no celebrity nonsense, no charity appeals, etc.
A new balance must be struck. But will the same people who abandoned Rockingham and sought out Sparta bleeding Kentucky listen to reason?
Most boring car racing on the planet. It looks like 2 or 3 groups of ants going around in a circle. That’s what they wanted.
A figure 8 track configuration would probably boost attendance considerably. Ovals have become so passe.
I didn’t see any empty seats at Watkins Glen last August. Maybe they just need more right turns here and there.
Smokey Yunik is spinning in his grave!
The change to the same body just painted different is what finally killed any interest I had in NASCAR.
Times past, if the factory did not have a good clean car, that make suffered for awhile. (As long as GM won)
Cars were actually modified factory cars. You had to be able to go down the parts department and buy an engine just like what they were running. (except if you were GM)
If someone came out with something revolutionary and started stomping the competition like a Superbird or a 427 SOHC, that got shut down because GM wasn’t winning.
Now we have a bunch of cars not based on anything real running parts that we can’t buy at the dealer.
For anyone watching this year, note how they rarely show the stands during the actual racing. It got funny last year.
The advertisers are in overdrive insulting the white male audience lately.
It looks like the private jets will be around at least a few more years...