Advertising revenue, Merch sales, marketing to name a few.
Well yeah I can see why the driver or team would care, but as a fan? I never cared if Jeff Gordon won the MPD award, but I guess thats just me.
Plenty of herd following band wagoners, cult member personalities that it's important to besides the typical fanatics lol. I'm with you, I don't care, it has never been my criteria that drivers I like to pull for be the most popular or politically correct.
That is the correct answer.
Right. The Elliott cult is a strong one.
They only care because it's Chase Elliott and it keeps them up at night trying to figure just why he's the darn most popular driver with such a bland PeRsOnAlITy.
I don't think I have ever heard anybody say it is Chase's personality as the reason he is popular. I've heard many times that it is because of his dad though. Dollar Bill did have a personality that people liked. He was outgoing which is the opposite of Chase.
That's my point. Everyone wonders why he's the MPD despite being so bland. He's popular for other reasons that I've mentioned before. The outgoing funny guys don't win the award because despite what people say, personality doesn't matter as much as they want to make people believe it does.
Oh it would if Chase didn't have a famous well liked Daddy.
I think he already is.
Yeah, he was #2 in merchandise sales last year, behind Elliott. He’s only getting more popular as well. It might be just as difficult to uproot him from that spot as it is for Chase at #1.
I mean MPD it's been obvious for the last 30 years who's gonna win the award on race day.
I'm a big fan of Larson, nothing wrong with Elliott either. I like Larson more because he races a lot and I mean aaa lot. lol.
This is to take nothing away from Elliott or Byron because they are both very good racers and great guys and they both give 100% when they are in a race car. But as far as having your heart 100% into racing I would have to say Larson and Bowman would be listed more in that category. They both love racing enough that they both invested their money in dirt track teams, and both spend about every weekend at a racetrack somewhere as an owner or a driver. Larson even owns part of a racing series. Now obviously Bowman had to back off of driving dirt cars due to his accident. But that doesn't mean he wouldn't be in one every weekend if he wasn't committed to HMS.
It’s basically been three drivers that have always the last four decades (Bill Elliott, Dale Jr, and Chase Elliott), with the exception of Dale Sr. winning it posthumously in 2001 and DW winning it a couple times when he drove for HMS. Its the most anticlimactic award in the sport.
Chase raced at Hickory last night
Larson is better with the fans than Elliott from what I have seen. It's not like Elliott is standoffish, he's just not a people person. Larson is quiet, but he also understands the fans want to see him and he obliges them. I'm not saying that as a Larson fan. I've had a chance to see most of these drivers at Bristol and at the local tracks. Larson will stand and sign for the fans and pose for pictures an hour before he races at a dirt track, then does the same thing after the race. Elliott doesn't do that. It's not a knock on him. It's just the way he is. You'd think the MPD would be like a Bowyer and always yucking it up with the fans. That's not his style.
*have always WON the last four decades. Left that word out.
Thats awesome. I know he races other series from time to time and I love that.Chase raced at Hickory last night
