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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...

Well, it looks like this drama is coming to its bitter end. The "Winston Cup Museum" is expecting to close after all. From a local TV station WGHP news story posted today (11/14/23): Financial issues are forcing a Winston-Salem-based museum to close its doors after 19 years. The founder of...

Your post is generally true for European street car manufacturers. American and Asian street car manufacturers have muddied the waters somewhat. As you wrote, European GT cars are usually larger models with high horsepower - and some American manufacturers also follow that formula. But...

Was a bit different where I raced (WV, OH, PA then NC, VA, SC). Tracks I ran mostly followed WKA rules, but in different areas the tracks followed IKF or their own conglomerations. Where I was, up to the mid-1980s, around 90% ran 2-strokes. 4-strokes were few, although my brother did run them...

You have a tough but worthwhile goal. It will be expensive and difficult, so don't let it frustrate you. It is attainable with enough work and perseverance, and maybe some luck. As others have already posted, there is an age bias about what experience a racer is expected to have. That can be...

Not surprised that you saw a lot of Phantom karts there - they make very good karts, and they are also local. Probably would be a good place to start. But there are quite a few other very good kart manufacturers out there... even some guys who just build a few per year out of their sheds. If...

Wow! Most cars with bodies like that (original post picture) are in classes with rules that would not allow suspensions that could achieve so much left rear body elevation. I'm curious about what class this car is in, and under what rules package. In general, to achieve the most speed you...