Posted on 12/29/2021 1:40:45 PM PST by Impala64ssa
“1.Made racing the most complicated they possibly could”
Stages......who in the hell thought up that bright idea? Stopping a race several times during the race and starting it again.
WTF?
My last in person was the 1st night time race at Daytona just so I could say I was there.
$95 dollar ticket to reserve a place to stand for 3 hours and a $20 parking spot in a field at least a mile from my “seat”.
That was it for me.
NASCAR started destroying their sport when they demanded standardization of cars. They should have respected their prohibition roots.
I did not spend the 10 minutes watching—and wont. Was the author trying to blame it on “Let’s Go Brandon.” ?
Also, what’s the term for regrouping everyone into a tight pack near the middle and end of races ? when did that begin ?....seems like artificial drama to this non-fan.
Because NASCAR ruined it. Fans don’t like the evolution of rules and formats over the years. They fixed what wasn’t broken.
I began watching more races last year after a several year hiatus. But, the George Floyd/BLM butt kissing and the Bubba Wallace noose/garage door pull incident were the final straw. I decided they didn’t want me to watch so I haven’t.
Agreed.
If an advertiser’s looking for white liberal ‘elites’ they should advertise with the local opera company. But, they need to remember most of the democrat base is poor and uneducated...
If NASCAR wants to go the way of Salvation Army, NFL, and NBA - asking their supporters to apologize for existing - NASCAR will fail and advertisers will lose a great market.
NASCAR went WOKE - soon they’ll go broke.
Goes to show that it is a bad business move to shit on your current fan base to attract a new fan base. They lost what they had and failed to get the demographics they were so desperate for. The smart move would have been to find common ground that would attract new people without turning off the older ones. But NASCAR wasn’t that smart and lacked respect for the people who followed them.
I for one would never miss them. Watching guys drive around in circles for hours gets boring to me and the pretenses of production car shells annoys me. If I am going to sit and watch car racing I prefer rally cars or F1.
That was the day l stopped watching.
“ let noosecar choke...”
Bump
My theory is that science has ruined sports. In each sport everyone has acces to the latest info on the best ways to train and the best ways to optimize their equipment. No longer are there any standout individuals with natural talent. Everyone that reaches the big leagues has an optimized diet, exercise regimen, vehicle or set of golf clubs, etc. and a host of people dependent on his success. So no personality allowed lest one wrong word lead to cancellation.
BINGO!
That and the crappy “Car Of Tomorrow”.
Putting Toyota on the track didn’t help, either.
Such a sad day. I still have a couple of newspapers from the day after. I remember it like it was yesterday and hope to wake from a bad dream.
NASCAR ceased to be on February 18th 2001.
Agreed.
Both cars and drivers are bland. No personality in either. How do you root for a driver or a car make now? It is so woke now that one would think that Joe Biden is head of NASCAR.
Drop the green flag and let ‘em race until the checkered flag drops.
Boogety, Boogety, my ass......
The young Frances wanted to go international like Formula 1 and divorced their core constituency. OK let me put that in redneck speak, the young uns didn’t know sh*t ‘bout where dirt tracking come from and thought we were a bunch of beer drinking, rebel flag waving hicks and they could do better.
Watching cars go round in circles is not real exciting. There are not enough crashes!
For excitement, I prefer watching high speed pursuits involving K9 cops.
1. Computer applications have taken a lot of the chance and spontaneity out of many sports and turned them into heavily managed events. Even hockey, which has more chaos and unpredictable, haphazard situations than any other sport, has become dominated by advanced metrics and heavily managed down to the individual shift.
2. TV has altered many of these sports to the point where you barely even recognize them. It’s not that TV has “ruined” them, but there’s no doubt that a sports event for a TV audience is staged very differently than one for live spectators.
I worked for Elmo Langley back in the early ‘70’s (older fans will know him)...That’s when NASCAR was racin’...It was southern...It was mostly “good ol boys” racin’...
When it went corporate and spread out across the country, it just went to h*ll...
I’m an amateur driver and could never stand watching NASCAR, or most racing on TV. The exception is tracks I love or drove - like the ring and/or Spa.
Also watching onboard footage from masters like Senna, Lauda and Estre is fun, but note how hardly any real drivers sit down to watch racing.
IROC (International Race Of Champions) was a cool concept, I liked that. Haven’t really watched since, it got boring.
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