Recent content by AtomicPunk55

We got our wires crossed. I stopped watching ancillary coverage of Nascar in the 90's as I was not gleaning anything that I felt was important but continued to watch and enjoy Nascar up until about 2004. Since that time period I stopped attending races and no longer see every race in its...

I appreciate the information I get from Hockey Night in Canada, Sportsnet and TSN and for football I get good info Peter King, Mel Kiper, Tony Dungy, Jay Glazer and many others. There are so many moving parts plus players and teams I normally learn something from draft shows or pre-game or...

I may take your advice and do just that.

Thread thoughts. It was interesting to hear of fans pacing during the race as I would have never guessed it. Being entertained and exercising at the same time. Love it! I wonder what the tire codes are this week? Plate racing is not my favorite but I don't think it is going anywhere and a lot of...

I hate to see Nascar in charge of anything as they have a poor track record over the last 20 years of providing leadership, direction and formulating and implementing plans that can remotely be called a success. Maybe the ASA can be revived sans Nascar.

One thing that is different between Nascar ratings and those of stick and ball is that Nascar's are down, often markedly, year over year but stick and ball seems to have ebbs and flows. As you have noted golf is enjoying a resurgence, hockey is up as is basketball. It remains to seen if the NFL...

Common sense says you determine what your needs for a vehicle are before you pull the trigger and purchase one. You don't buy a Prius to hammer down the highway at 90 mph but you do buy one if you travel the Dan Ryan daily or travel I65 through Nashville or I75 through Atlanta during rush hour...

IDK what size bed I have on my Tundra but it looks to be about 6 to 6.5 feet which is plenty for me. I don't need an 8 foot bed but I do need space in the back to haul passengers on occasion and I need a bed big enough to move gear, transport motorcycles and 4 wheelers plus something to tow a...

Ain't nothin but a lil thang!

What you say makes sense as just by attending school children are exposed to games like football, soccer, basketball, baseball/softball and many schools even have golf teams. I suspect the best way for kids to get exposed to Nascar or racing in general is to have an adult in the household be a...

According to the ratings mavens here it doesn't matter how low they go. The conventional wisdom is that as long as Nascar is the number 1 rated auto series in the nation it doesn't matter if 500,000 people watch and 10,000 show up at the track as it will always business as usual. I am not saying...

http://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/23316670/nascar-bubba-wallace-challenging-search-sponsorship A nice deathbed story of how Team Murstein is having difficulty getting sponsorship for the 43 car.

What networks are paying similar or more money for a sporting event that draws a similar number of viewers and demographic as NASCAR?

First things first and I am not saying you are wrong at all but I am wondering how you arrived at your conclusion. Each year of the broadcast deal Nascar has delivered less of an audience with a higher percentage of old folks. If this was offset by younger people streaming in any significant...

Great post and very, very well said and I also appreciated the links as I had not seen most of the articles. Between attrition and the lack of new customers Nascar should be able to lose 30% of its remaining audience quickly so the race to lose 60-70% of the current fan base is easily attainable...