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TravelinMan
NASCAR Cup series started going downhill around 1996/97 when they pulled both of the races at historic short track North Wilkesboro. Replaced with cookie cutter boring tracks in Texas and California. Then NASCAR dropped the races at Rockingham and they added a bunch more cookie cutter tracks in Vegas, Kansas, and Chicagoland. They alienated their original fan base, and their history.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. seems to be the curator of NASCAR history, trying to bring back the Nashville Fairgrounds short track and bringing back Wilkesboro in iRacing. I admire the work he’s done, but it’s an uphill battle.
Charlotte added a road course which is pretty cool. I never thought I’d see a road course in North Carolina.
The schedule used to be really well balanced and interesting, but unfortunately track barons bought up all the historic tracks and replaced their dates with boring tracks with no personality. It’s a shame.
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TravelinMan
NASCAR Cup series started going downhill around 1996/97 when they pulled both of the races at historic short track North Wilkesboro. Replaced with cookie cutter boring tracks in Texas and California. Then NASCAR dropped the races at Rockingham and they added a bunch more cookie cutter tracks in Vegas, Kansas, and Chicagoland. They alienated their original fan base, and their history.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. seems to be the curator of NASCAR history, trying to bring back the Nashville Fairgrounds short track and bringing back Wilkesboro in iRacing. I admire the work he’s done, but it’s an uphill battle.
Charlotte added a road course which is pretty cool. I never thought I’d see a road course in North Carolina.
The schedule used to be really well balanced and interesting, but unfortunately track barons bought up all the historic tracks and replaced their dates with boring tracks with no personality. It’s a shame.
All true. They left their core audience. Don't forget the impact Dale Sr.'s death had. Never been the same.
All that said, I'll be watching - although my interest had been steadily going downhill. Thankful for any live sports.
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Cooltoplady
Inbreeding is coming back?
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TravelinMan
NASCAR Cup series started going downhill around 1996/97 when they pulled both of the races at historic short track North Wilkesboro. Replaced with cookie cutter boring tracks in Texas and California. Then NASCAR dropped the races at Rockingham and they added a bunch more cookie cutter tracks in Vegas, Kansas, and Chicagoland. They alienated their original fan base, and their history.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. seems to be the curator of NASCAR history, trying to bring back the Nashville Fairgrounds short track and bringing back Wilkesboro in iRacing. I admire the work he’s done, but it’s an uphill battle.
Charlotte added a road course which is pretty cool. I never thought I’d see a road course in North Carolina.
The schedule used to be really well balanced and interesting, but unfortunately track barons bought up all the historic tracks and replaced their dates with boring tracks with no personality. It’s a shame.
All true. They left their core audience. Don't forget the impact Dale Sr.'s death had. Never been the same.
All that said, I'll be watching - although my interest had been steadily going downhill. Thankful for any live sports.
Absolutely, I don’t think there has been an equivalent to Earnhardt’s death in any major sport.
I was huge into NASCAR as a kid growing up, but then in the early 2000’s it was evident they had changed for the worse. Allowing owners like Roush to run monopolies with like 5 teams really choked out the little guy. Then it got even worse. I stopped watching for years and just came back into paying attention a bit the last few years because of my father in law.
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Cooltoplady
Inbreeding is coming back?
What an ignorant comment. I know what you’re going for, but it’s totally off base and one of the reasons the sport isn’t as great as it once was. All the drivers now grew up with silver spoons playing computer games with daddy’s money.
Also, maybe you should stop listening to the Stones because they appreciate and imitate southern music.
This has nothing to do with musical heritage. Ignorant comment This has to do with morality and intelligence. Some parts of the south are still stuck in the 1930’s. Why do I have have to live in a country where the swastika waves. There were some many fans at Daytona giving Trump the nazi solute Have a good dayQuote
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Cooltoplady
Inbreeding is coming back?
What an ignorant comment. I know what you’re going for, but it’s totally off base and one of the reasons the sport isn’t as great as it once was. All the drivers now grew up with silver spoons playing computer games with daddy’s money.
Also, maybe you should stop listening to the Stones because they appreciate and imitate southern music.
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DGA35
NASCAR returns tomorrow with a race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. They will race at an empty racetrack with no spectators allowed. Even said that most car owners won't be there since most are over 65 and considered at risk for covid.
I got into watching NASCAR probably around 2007ish after the debacle of what happened in open wheel racing between Champ Car and IRL series basically splitting the open wheel fan base in two. Now only IRL exists and very few people care. I remember when Vancouver hosted the Indy Vancouver in the late 80s and drew huge crowds over the whole weekend.
When I first started watching NASCAR, the stands were always full but in recent years, I've noticed lots of empty seats and even full sections that weren't even used anymore.
Do many non North American IORR race fans here watch NASCAR or lean towards F1?
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Cooltoplady
Inbreeding is coming back?
What an ignorant comment. I know what you’re going for, but it’s totally off base and one of the reasons the sport isn’t as great as it once was. All the drivers now grew up with silver spoons playing computer games with daddy’s money.
Also, maybe you should stop listening to the Stones because they appreciate and imitate southern music.
I have the agree with her. I never met a nascar fan with other more then half their teeth.
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CooltopladyThis has nothing to do with musical heritage. Ignorant comment This has to do with morality and intelligence. Some parts of the south are still stuck in the 1930’s. Why do I have have to live in a country where the swastika waves. There were some many fans at Daytona giving Trump the nazi solute Have a good dayQuote
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Cooltoplady
Inbreeding is coming back?
What an ignorant comment. I know what you’re going for, but it’s totally off base and one of the reasons the sport isn’t as great as it once was. All the drivers now grew up with silver spoons playing computer games with daddy’s money.
Also, maybe you should stop listening to the Stones because they appreciate and imitate southern music.
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Rickster
Competition in nascar today is better then ever since 1996 they have only lost 1 short track north wilkesboro which was old and run down and then rockingham went away because crowds there were far less then other tracks and for the record no track is identical so stop using the stupid term cookie Cutter it dosen't apply to anything in nascar.
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Rickster
Different degrees of banking at almost all those tracks and other characteristics to the tracks if you paid close attention to the sport and quit listening to mainstream news media you would know that.