Anyone follow Nascar anymore?

[Roosky01]

With the Daytona 500 up on Sunday, was just curious if anyone really cares anymore? I used to love that shit up until about 2 or 3 years after Dale died. I dont think you could pay me to watch a race anymore.

How long before it just quietly fades away?

 

[hallett21]

I never followed but most of our friends (25-35) all follow F1.

Did they lose touch with bringing in new generations?

 

[Roosky01]

I never followed but most of our friends (25-35) all follow F1.

Did they lose touch with bringing in new generations?

I started lightly following F1 after the first season on Netflix. I imagine a huge amount of the popularity gain (at least in N. America) was due to that?

I like F1 but the fact it takes $500MM a year to be on the podium kinda ruins it for me at the same time. Kinda like Nascar, I guess?

 

[hallett21]

I started lightly following F1 after the first season on Netflix. I imagine a huge amount of the popularity gain (at least in N. America) was due to that?

I like F1 but the fact it takes $500MM a year to be on the podium kinda ruins it for me at the same time. Kinda like Nascar, I guess?

I have no idea what it takes to be competitive in Nascar but I assume it’s 100s of millions lol.

 

[HTTP404]

I'm losing interest. It sucks cause they went all woke.

 

[spectras only]

Never cared for Nascar, same looking cars going in circles round around at a constant speed. I'd rather go to a short track oval speedway where the cars accelerate like crazy to stomp on the brakes get to go again. I like road racing with lot of turns and elevation changes. F1 is a baller game for the teams but having only 10 cars total also kinda of boring. Having side by side action is rare let alone three car wide Having a three wide hauling azz almost never happen like it does in road racing.

 

[pixrthis]

I record the races and fast forward a lot. Points paid at the end of stages have made it fun to watch three times during the race instead of one. Some of the new things like the Roval, bringing back Martinsville, Nashville, and Chicago have gone well. Some of the others not so much. They’re trying new things in an attempt to attract new fans and I think it’s working to an extent, maybe not as fast as old fans are turning or dying off. One thing I do commend them on is that they haven’t allowed their races to only be streamed like Supercross and motocross. Peacock may pay the most into a series but is the worst thing for the fans and makes it easy not to watch.

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

Still follow it. Had infield camping at Autoclub speedway for many years until they closed the track. I still have season tickets and camping at Phoenix raceway. Not sure how much long I will keep Phoenix. Autoclub was my favorite track.

 

[Eliminator21vdrive]

I am 59 and had watched /followed it since I was a kid. It has lost its "grass roots feel" for me and have not followed for six years or so...

 

[Vamodsquad]

It's Daytona baby...Let's rock !

C'mon Ricky Stenhouse, C'mon Kyle Busch, Up yours, Bubba Wallace !

 

[TonyFanelli]

Meh, I can take it or leave it, as mentioned above, seems they've gone Woke, especially after the "hangman noose" suppose d incident in Bubba's garage. Plus it seems like they add new unnecessary rules every year. The most annoying tho is that with around 5 laps to go, there seems to be 7 cautions, making the end of the race last waaay too long. It prolly won't be long til this is mandatory either

 

[17 10 Flat]

Once the auto manufactures did not have to sell what they raced it went down hill. V-8 RWD Camry yea OK.

Nascar 60's 70's fun to watch. Now meh, all cars the same.

 

[Blue Oval]

If your lake is frozen over you watch it for something to do. You have to take a shot each time there is a yellow flag and each time the announcers say attrition.

 

[FreeBird236]

Still follow. Lots of bad changes, a few good ones, still the most competitive car races from a spectator's standpoint. The only way to watch is with a DVR.

 

[LuauLounge]

Spent a week a year in a different city for about 10 years, starting in 2000. Only thing that was planned was the race. Great seeing parts of the country and history. In Atlanta, we stopped by the Atlanta History Museum. Got there when they opened, figured we’d spend an hour or so, they kicked us out at closing. Hit the shops for the Charlotte race. All in all, enjoyed the sight seeing more than the races. Talladega was amazing. The fans track the sport like the NFL, folks behind us were discussing the individual tire changers as if they were receivers in football.
Since they changed the cars with the difference being the paint, lost the enthusiasm.
Do enjoy watching the kids, who have been racing since they were 5 come from dirt and do very well. Larson’s talent is amazing. Watched him before NASCAR at the local sprint car track. Put him in a car he’s never driven at a track he’s never been to and he’ll finish in the top five if he’s having a bad night.

 

[mjc]

I still enjoy watching, but I will watch almost anything with a motor race, and sometimes without.

 

[77charger]

Still watch but don’t care for the stage racing crap and wish they let teams do more to the cars vs cookie cutters. They need to let engine builders make more power at most tracks rather than limit them to 550hp.

 

[Sandlord]

With the extreme wokeness of all the sportsball sports,
I watch more NASCAR than any other sport.

 

[Bobby V]

Todays race has been postponed due to rain until tomorrow after the XFINITY race.

 

[Vamodsquad]

Todays race has been postponed due to rain until tomorrow after the XFINITY race.

Rats, but thanks for the update !

 

[MPHSystems]

Nothing like sitting down on my couch for a NASCAR race with a bud light in one hand and my boyfriend’s dick in the other.

 

[CLdrinker]

NASCAR died a long time ago. Bubba Wallace finished it off.

 

[SlowMyRoll]

With the Daytona 500 up on Sunday, was just curious if anyone really cares anymore? I used to love that shit up until about 2 or 3 years after Dale died. I dont think you could pay me to watch a race anymore.

How long before it just quietly fades away?

Fades away? 2024 Daytona 500 Sold Out!

 

[Ziggy]

I've never been a fan of the roundy round style of racing, just never caught my attention. True road course & rally racing has exciting moments throughout with way more fender to fender dueling in multiple track locations.
Lol, honestly the first thing thing that pops into my head when someone says Nascar is Jeff Dunham's Bubba-J saying "Hey Look! Another left turn!"

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My apologies to my friend whose daughter works for nascar

 

[USMC2010]

I never cared for NASCAR. MotoGP and superbike racing is fun to watch.

 

[X Hoser]

I enjoy the last 20 laps of Daytona and Talladega. Have been watching trucks and Xfinity as I know a couple of the drivers.

 

[SpeedyWho]

Haven't watched a single lap since Danica won the pole at Daytona. At that point I realized it was fixed and wrote it off completely. The stands are pretty much empty everywhere, and most people just don’t care about anymore.

 

[PlumLoco]

I stopped being even mildly interested when they started homogenizing the cars. When every car has to fit inside a template and the engines have a power limit, it just becomes a glorified IROC race. I like the IROC series idea too, but that is never what NASCAR should attempt to be.

 

[LuauLounge]

NASCAR naps, watch the start, fall asleep, wake up for the last 10 laps. Great rainy Sunday

 

[LuauLounge]

I stopped being even mildly interested when they started homogenizing the cars. When every car has to fit inside a template and the engines have a power limit, it just becomes a glorified IROC race. I like the IROC series idea too, but that is never what NASCAR should attempt to be.

Wait until they start running EVs

 

[ChrisV]

Only nascar I’ll watch.

 

[Desert Whaler]

NASCAR naps, watch the start, fall asleep, wake up for the last 10 laps. Great rainy Sunday

EXACTLY.
Or I'll have it going as background noise while I BBQ . . . then like youu said, watch the last 10 laps.

 

[PlumLoco]

Wait until they start running EVs

Hmmm . . . pit stops where they have to change the battery might be interesting. Cars would probably handle great with that low of a center of gravity. Aerodynamics would be the most important things I imagine.

But can you even imagine just how horrible an electric race would sound??? No thank you.

 

[FreeBird236]

Haven't watched a single lap since Danica won the pole at Daytona. At that point I realized it was fixed and wrote it off completely. The stands are pretty much empty everywhere, and most people just don’t care about anymore.

If you don't like NASCAR that's fine, but the way Daytona works, anyone can win the pole or the race, that's Daytona. If you don't believe it, check out the last 3 winners. And BTW this year's 500 is sold out.

 

[bonesfab]

Nothing like sitting down on my couch for a NASCAR race with a bud light in one hand and my boyfriend’s dick in the other.

Way to storm out of the closet there. Probably could have left it with just the Bud light, but thanks for the confirmation.

 

[TonyFanelli]

Wait until they start running EVs

See post #11

 

[Roosky01]

Nothing like sitting down on my couch for a NASCAR race with a bud light in one hand and my boyfriend’s dick in the other.

I guess I wasn’t expecting that one outta left field…

 

[HST4ME]

NASCAR naps, watch the start, fall asleep, wake up for the last 10 laps. Great rainy Sunday

Except the last ten laps take longer than the rest of the race.

 

[Bpracing1127]

I’ve been to 21 tracks. Used to watch it and follow it very closely. When Montoya, Patrick, Lagano all joined I basically stopped. It started to really suck then. They won’t let them race.

 

[HallettBill]

My apologies to my friend whose daughter works for nascar

Noted

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

They need to dump the oval format as the dominant tracks and start running more road races, going to all the road courses in this country that can handle their spectator numbers and logistics.

But at that point they’d become the WeatherTech IMSA series which is way more interesting.

Also like others mentioned I’d really like to see some diversity in the car bodies. And I’d really like to see more name plates. And I don’t mean Honda.

NASCAR is still a very strong sport. At least until it starts using EVs.

I was wondering how GM was going to keep using Camaro when the production stopped on it but I heard the rules say they can run it as long as it was designed and raced prior to being discontinued. At least they aren’t switching to the Bolt or Volt.

 

[DWC]

Went to a shitload of races in the early to mid 2000’s. Bristol night race was one of my favorite sporting events I’ve ever been to. Company bowed out due to costs, kids didn’t want to go anymore and kinda lost interest.
My most memorable NASCAR memory was driving with @ArizonaKevin ‘s uncle down the 15. We were heading home from the annual boys river trip in his discovery DP towing our Nautique. He had Daytona playing on the TV above the drivers seat. Coverage flipped to the in car view there was a wreck immediately. He swerved to avoid “the crash”. Not sure how my boat stayed on the hitch. We flipped off the TV and kept going.

 

[76sanger]

I'm an NHRA or IMSA person first and foremost. But I love all racing, and I must say that Nascar right now is really good with these young and very aggressive guys with this new car over the last couple of years. Now for me the restrictor plate racing absolutely SUCKS! It just causes big ass wrecks that takes out a third of the field if not more. I blame Nascar for this!

 

[Clean Air]

Cup Series driver here, Eliminator owner and long time lurker of RDP. Quite frankly the sport is better than it ever has been. Our current cars make for some exciting racing to say the least.

 

[Gelcoater]

With the Daytona 500 up on Sunday, was just curious if anyone really cares anymore? I used to love that shit up until about 2 or 3 years after Dale died. I dont think you could pay me to watch a race anymore.

How long before it just quietly fades away?

Not really much since they let Toyota in.

 

[SHOCKtheMONKEY]

Cup Series driver here, Eliminator owner and long time lurker of RDP. Quite frankly the sport is better than it ever has been. Our current cars make for some exciting racing to say the least.

I agree. I like the new car, it's bad ass!
What number is your car???
Good luck tomorrow.

 

[Clean Air]

I agree. I like the new car, it's bad ass!
What number is your car???
Good luck tomorrow.

Thanks! Time for bed and most likely not much sleep.

 

[Roosky01]

They need to dump the oval format as the dominant tracks and start running more road races, going to all the road courses in this country that can handle their spectator numbers and logistics.

But at that point they’d become the WeatherTech IMSA series which is way more interesting.

Also like others mentioned I’d really like to see some diversity in the car bodies. And I’d really like to see more name plates. And I don’t mean Honda.

NASCAR is still a very strong sport. At least until it starts using EVs.

I was wondering how GM was going to keep using Camaro when the production stopped on it but I heard the rules say they can run it as long as it was designed and raced prior to being discontinued. At least they aren’t switching to the Bolt or Volt.

I’m that case, I think Ford should bring back the Thunderbird and Chevy the Monte Carlo and relive the glory days.

 

[v6toy4x]

Addicted to it in mid 80s and 90s, elliot, waltrip, gant, earnhardt, rudd, wallace.
Now only the short courses, road courses and a handful of the one mile tracks.
The only thing good about the super speedways is the last 10 laps.

 

[SHOCKtheMONKEY]

Thanks! Time for bed and most likely not much sleep.

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