Oh yeah it did say that but I wasnt meaning to make it a Real vs Casual. Money is money, its all green. Hopefully most everyone if not more come back to RA next year.
What happens when the drivers disagree?
Can you imagine what it would be like to get a room full of drivers to agree on anything?
So the NASCAR demographic is lowering based on a television viewer's assessment? Okay then! More men than women? Did pets come? What else can you tell me?
No kidding. The most selfish SOB's on the face of the planet, and that's why we love them.
I have no idea, but I bet Nascar does. Just an observation on my part. Good to see IMO.
Execs are in favor of what the TV audience wants. That isn't the same thing as what the fans want.
Campers are fans. They're only a subset of the TV audience. And a lot those folks are coming off COVID restrictions and would have gone to watch dachshund steeplechase as along as they could attend.
It's in Fort Worth, and is Martin Truex Jr's home track.
going to have to do some splaining on that one.
Maybe you can help the track owners count the money of this "only a subset". I wonder if the camper subset watches races on TV. The R-F experts when it was first announced that Pocono was going to two dates had their predictable the sky is falling melt down. You weren't one of those were ya?
I'm not asking for all of them to agree. What I'm saying is that their input is valuable and should be considered in the decision making process. A driver is going to give a different perspective than an exec in a suit and may have ideas that had not have been thought of in a boardroom meeting beforehand.
They race like normal. Nobody cares about driver input on how private venues operate their own facilities. They race the track they are presented with. You think 35 extra chefs in the kitchen makes the kitchen operate more efficiently?
Every driver has a different preferred type of feel and style of driving. How many different opinions is sufficient to make a rational decision?
Yeah, Briscoe on Race Hub wanted a track like Homestead. They already have a Homestead. I'm happy they are getting rid of yet another 1.5. It's getting close to if you don't like the track come back next week it will be different. Instead of if you didn't like 1.5 racing you were stuck with a whole season of it to look forward to. There are going to be fans who are going to like the new config of Atlanta next year.
I know I will, it would be really hard to make the racing worse. The fans have been screaming for more track variety for years. Now they get it and it is like oh no, not THAT variety.
Back in the late 90s and the turn of the century, NASCAR was filling every seat available BECAUSE it was the cool thing to do. So many of those butts in the seat were never race fans. We used to go to Charlotte every year and at one point there were 20 of us. Out of those 20, only a handful actually watched the races on TV or followed NASCAR in any form each week. Out of those 20 I only know of 2 of us still closely following. You are right,, NASCAR does have to cater to the casual fan.
If I was one of the driver's Eddie was talking about when he said that, I would have punched him in the mouth. The track was absolutely unsafe at that point.
Eddie had a job to do and they raced.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he had to walk back some of his tough words.
It was Texas, not South Boston.
You are correct and Eddie embarrassed himself, apologized and repaired the track.
Guilty. It never occurred to me someone would deliberately build another plate track.
After. He's a promoter so he was defending his gate. Drivers value their hard cards apparently more than you
Plates have been announced?
Sorry for the delay.
I admit I'm basing my opinion on the 'Changes to schedule' discussion, where pack racing is presented as a done deal. =IF= that's not true, I have no objections to the reconfiguration. If the teams aren't forced into a Talladega- / Daytona-style pack, I won't care what SMI does to the place.
Eddie did his job
finding something to whine about is a quest.