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LMAO (especially in the context of this thread and the larger discussion). I guess NASCAR themselves now disagrees that this format is working for the fans.

The most well known/famous/beloved active race car drivers in the United States are F1 drivers based on all the available information: not merely just TV ratings (which are basically a push now between NASCAR and F1) but also every other imaginable metric from social media reach to search volume...

The only thing that is absolutely clear is that there won't be a one race playoff after this year. Clearly everyone with influence thinks the way things will be done this year sucks ass and needs to go to hell and die but you know, make sure to watch the Game 7 Moment this year when it gets down...

More pointedly: the people who are loudest that they should stay are the same people whose careers depend on access provided by NASCAR and their media partners. If NASCAR and NBC tells them to be in favor of season long titles and to call fans who want a playoff morons, they will do it without...

The biggest thing that will take down and is reducing the hate on playoffs is the sense that a lot of people have that they won't ever hear about playoffs again after the year is over (in spite of this not actually being announced and many people warning they'll exist in some iteration). Why...

TIL of the existence of r/NASCARWAGTea and I have never been more certain the Internet was a mistake.

Comparisons to dirt racing for NASCAR merch are what I go to; every top driver touring nationally has their own trailer and a line of people buying things. I compare my attendance at the IMS double headers with NASCAR and Indycar to attending the National Open last year at Williams Grove and the...

RTJ losing the Lucas Oil LM title in that disaster of a finale literally made me decide late model racing wasn't for me even if I loved the idea of what RTJ represents (a guy who came up from NOTHING to the top of his discipline). He managed to finish in 6th or 7th that race because that's how...

I refuse to be Charlie Brown kicking the football. If the Tuesday after the finale they announce it I am 100% back in. Not a moment sooner.

I feel like this year with Eldora the story has been "Who hasn't been injured racing there?" I feel like we'd have a Knoxville Nationals starting lineup with all the names of people who've wound up hurt or in serious wrecks there just in the last 6 months.

General consensus has been that he's moving to Pro Stock. Seems like a strange choice to me vs. anything else like Factory Stock Showdown or Pro Mod but what do I know?

Just three? Christ, it's more like 10 except that for 7 of them, there was absolutely no method by which a national champion could be reliably determined on the field. I would rather the season end in September if it meant a season long points format instead of a playoff intended to try and...

Also, I actually did deal with the question of "How many drivers skip ARCA?" two years ago and the answer is "most of them at least as full time drivers": https://racing-forums.com/threads/arca-hasnt-mattered-for-years.75848/ Martin Truex Jr. never even made a single ARCA start. Clearly a huge...

100+ cars showed up to Knoxville this month; in no universe is Dirtvision getting larger viewership than FS1. ROI exists and ARCA has way less of it than the Trucks while costing not all that different. I mean, you yourself pointed out that ARCA has competitive pit stops, and we all know the...

I don't think it's at all laughable. Why do you think there are 30+ trucks entered at every race and <20 at most ARCA ones? Also, who gets to skip ARCA ever? NASCAR can just force guys to run it for licensing purposes. Why wouldn't they? ARCA income is NASCAR income.

They don't race dirt in any of the three major NASCAR touring series, so while I appreciate it being different, it is meaningless as preparation for Cup, Xfinity, or Trucks. Similarly I don't know that there's anything about ARCA that makes it a superior option for getting seat time vs. a super...

When NASCAR moved to the COT, that broke the relationship between NASCAR Cup and ARCA having basically identical car specifications. To my knowledge, ARCA is still essentially a Gen 4 series with spec motors from Ilmor or Yates and something approximating a BOP for cars that still hang metal...

There's nothing here for me to be particularly critical of. I don't even care that much about Watkins Glen being in May. You've got dirt tracks in PA that generally start up the last weekend of February/middle of March. A beautiful spring race at the Glen sounds terrific. I also love Trucks at...

Heading to Owosso again on Wednesday night for a good late model feature: https://starsnationaltour.com/star-studded-field-set-for-michigan-300-at-owosso-speedway/ Erik Jones, Noah Gragson, Carson Hocevar, Bubba Pollard, and Stephen Nasse all participating.

I get the sense that Tony might field a car still based on the other noise. I'll say this: I think there was a lost opportunity to sell some shirts and do some merch up the remainder of this year while also freeing up Donny to, if he desired, jump ship elsewhere as part of silly season (or...