Posted on 12/29/2021 1:40:45 PM PST by Impala64ssa
With M&M’s Mars leaving NASCAR many fans are wondering both “why?” and also “who’s next?” Over the last 10-15 years there have been many sponsors jumping ship from the sport as revenue and viewership have dipped lower and lower. So today I want to look more into this trend and see what is going on and why it may be worse or not as bad as many think it is. This is NASCAR’s mass sponsor exodus.
“its pretty damn boring... go fast turn left....”
Many moons ago, there were some road racing events on the stock car circuit.
Saw a couple at the old Riverside international track in SoCal.
Great fun watching the majority being totally lost and thrashing around on the track. Some, like Parnelli Jones and AJ Foyt, just wiped the track with them.
Stage racing, the chase format, use of rap and heavy metal music, car of tomorrow, letting Toyota be a manufacturer, arbitrary enforcement of the rules, making up rules on the fly etc. etc.
Explorers used to laugh a primitive cultures who feared a camera would steal their soul yet changing sports to sell television audiences to advertisers did exactly that.
The Brandon gift is from the few remaining fans. It is not from NASCAR!
The sooner the better.
Good.
Maybe they'll all despair and start hanging themselves by pretend nooses the FBI flew in to see... and I'll just have a good belly laugh.
Reap what you sow big time.
I was watching a NASCAR race when the president of NASCAR ordered the drivers to stop and shut off their engines right before the race was due to start. He then berated the drivers and fans as being a bunch of racists.
TV off. No NASCAR EVER AGAIN.
I was a nascar fan starting back in the Richard Petty days.
Dead to me now.
60 FBI agents to ‘investigate’ 3 inch garage door pulls...
FBI boys must be so proud to be butt boys for corrupt white liberal ‘elites’ and their black democrat pets...
It’s disgusting... they’re disgusting.
The left wants traditional sports that have a large mostly white fan base gone and that’s exactly what they are doing.
It was noosegate that sealed the deal for me.
Both my wife and I had been decades long NASCAR fans of/for various drivers, been to more races physically then we have fingers and toes, and have spent tens of thousands of dollars on a sport we both thoroughly enjoyed. Accordingly, we have not watched NASCAR since, and to be frank, after a week or two of ‘withdrawals,’ have not even remotely considered looking back. We will keep the memories we have and have moved on.
NASCAR failed miserably in realizing that the large portion of the fan base was them very same deplorables Hitlery, etc. have ridiculed, belittled, etc., etc. to their own slow death.....and neither my wife or I are giving one sh*t about its death. Again, we will keep the memories that we do have....
I got to go to Talladega back in the 90’s. Fun couple of days. Too bad the libs had to ruin another institution.
The beginning of the end was restrictor plate racing.
The cookie cutter spec racer design, corporate blandness, endless rule changing, and wokeness really made it hard to love the sport.
I thought it was Drag Racing?
They hate their fan base.
The Car of Tomorrow
Their marketing department is woke
What happened on that date? Thank you in advance.
You mentioned Spa, and I recently purchased a special magazine devoted to the career of Stirling Moss. There were photos from back in the day, including one at Spa where spectators - including young children - are standing right on the edge of the track - with no fence - as cars speed by within a few feet at 120 miles an hour. Needless to say, times have changed. Some of the newer F1 circuits look like video games, with absolutely everything artificial, everything painted, and huge run-off areas.
That's kind of like calling both heads & tails at the flip of the coin.
NOOSECAR, the Affirmative Action driving school.
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