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Could need a lot of work before Bowman Gray Stadium can handle a Cup race. Bowman Gray is very narrow. SAFER barriers take up a lot of space when you consider the foam between them and the original wall behind it all. Currently the grandstands are right up against the back of the wall, with...

ITG Brands is still harassing the owners of The Winston Cup Museum - even after it got the museum closed. On Monday, a North Carolina judge denied a motion for contempt placed on the Winston Cup Museum and its owner, Will Spencer. The motion was filed by ITG Brands in January, which stated...

One of the very few driver hats I've owned was Cale's #29 Hardee's team. Not sure where it is anymore... I wore it a lot and might have worn it out. May Cale never run short of horsepower in that great race in the sky.

The Busch Series used a V6 during the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s. A lot of people complained about how it sounded. Since that technology is about 30 years old it could take some effort to apply it to today's V6 engines. Of course, those were naturally aspirated and worked without...

Yes, viewer engagement is important - which has been part of my arguments. For NASCAR, the older demographic has already been engaged (although discouraged by NASCAR's marketing practices these past few decades)... I wouldn't assume that a younger audience (who might be more open to new...

Agreed, although I suspect that NASCAR will also get pressure from race sponsors and race teams because viewership numbers could hurt sponsorship deals. For example, if NASCAR's streaming-only races realize the same trouble that the NFL is having with its streaming-only Thursday night games (a...

Unfortunately my cable company / ISP does not offer me a deal as you describe. If I cancel the TV part of my package they will only discount my monthly service fee by about $20 - which they will overwrite within months since they raise my monthly fee a few dollars every month anyway. They...

Folks, I do not mean to sound like I'm totally against streaming services. If you like them, by all means subscribe to them. I'm just trying to point out that this "broadcasting deal" is going to effect NASCAR's audience, and unless cable and over-the-air services pretty much cease to exist I...

If I was psychic I could foresee where the markets will be now and well into the future... and be rich as a consultant.

This deal does NOT cater to people like me. To use it I have to pony up for service subscriptions and additional hardware so I can still get what I used to get.

"Dying"... well I guess that attitude explains why some younger folks think us older folks are useless and expendable...

Agreed that NASCAR needs to grow its audience, and try to find them where they live. But simultaneously casting aside its existing audience won't help it - which has been shown by decreased live event attendees and lower car counts and more teams with partial or inadequate sponsorship. Just...

And nobody is trying to get you to replace them with something new, such as virtual reality goggles...

That's good for you, but I don't shop online enough to come close to paying for Amazon Prime service. Even by being a bigger online customer than me you admit that it "almost" pays for itself... which sounds like you are willing to pay that extra amount for what is convenient to you. That's...

My point is that it doesn't matter much what overall statistics claim (such as, Prime Video already has more subscribers than cable television) if the interested audience does not conform to those statistics. Relying upon statistics is part of how NASCAR keeps shooting itself in the foot.

LOL, I don't have Prime Video AND I know it. Don't buy Amazon Prime at all. Also don't do Facebook, so no surprise that I didn't see your post (assuming that I would follow you anyway, which is not a disrespect - I don't follow anyone).

Better factor in the make-up of the audience, too. I'm no expert, but it appears that the younger crowd is embracing streaming services while the older crowd tends to stay with what they already know and have already paid for. Meanwhile, the younger crowd doesn't have as much interest in...

Hope for them it's not making a few dollars today to lose many dollars tomorrow...

Well, I won't buy streaming services so I won't be watching the streaming-only races. And it's not only the cost of streaming services - unless I want to watch races on my little computer monitor I'd also have to buy more equipment to interface Internet to my TV set. Not worth the money nor...

Any driver and team development opportunities, particularly on tracks that NASCAR visits, benefits aspiring championship racers. ARCA has long chummed up to NASCAR... NASCAR finally buying it out in 2018 was essentially a formality. Besides, gotta keep a market for NASCAR teams to sell their...