Exact details on how Reddit (r/dogecoin) won Josh Wise the fan vote.

where does redditt ...dogecoin .....come into nascar again ? 600 sponsor ?
 
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How has this picture not been posted yet?
 
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At least we have excitement and entertaining people down here. Unlike the boring/vanilla other 49 states. I think all of the sunshine and good living overloads the brains of the yankee transplants when they come down and they can't handle it and go nuts. :D :cheers:
 
BobbyFord said:
Who's name? :D
I heard that it caused so much of a stir in the racing community that Rick Hendrick called him to find out how much time he had left on the PPR contract...
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So who do you think should've been in the race from the fan vote?
 
In an era of sagging attendance and falling television ratings, NASCAR should extend open arms to fans of all kinds. Instead, Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Fan Vote has been greeted with a disappointing mix of disdain, snobbery and mean-spiritedness.

Underdog Josh Wise won the annual Fan Vote, prevailing over presumed favorite Danica Patrick to earn the final spot in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. The reaction from NASCAR Nation was both swift and ugly.

“They’re not real NASCAR fans,” sneered some observers, labeling Wise’s backers “internet geeks” and worse. The online reddit.com community – largely responsible for Wise’s selection – faced accusations of online election fraud, accusations that quickly proved to be baseless.

Others dismissed the vote on the grounds that Wise had little chance to actually win the All-Star Race, conveniently ignoring the fact that in the 30-year history of the event, only one Fan Vote winner has ever gone on to win the million-dollar top prize. Patrick herself finished a distant seventh in the preliminary Sprint Showdown, and would certainly have failed to contend for All-Star Victory Lane, as well.

One member of the NASCAR media corps even went so far as to label Wise’s selection “a farce," claiming that Patrick was “bumped from the all-star race by a little-known driver who was barely noticed until his small fan base stuffed the ballot box.”

Wise, he wrote, “had no business being in Saturday night’s race,” claiming he was voted in by “a savvy online community that figured out how to manipulate the fan vote.”
That assertion is both insulting to Wise’s fans and totally devoid of fact.

Reddit.com is the largest online community on the planet, and hardly qualifies as a “small fan base." Reddit and Dogecoin members did not engage in “manipulation,” they simply worked harder – and smarter – than any other group. They mobilized their fan base in a way that was both impressive and 100-percent legal. No rules were broken – in spirit or otherwise -- any more than they were broken when Bill Elliott was voted NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver 16 times (10 times consecutively) in the 1980s and `90s.

Elliott’s secret back then was a massive, well-organized and wildly efficient Fan Club that succeeded in getting out the vote for their driver. Wise’s fans did exactly the same thing this year, albeit in a more technologically advanced way.

While most fans were content to cast an online vote or two for their favorite driver, Wise’s backers went the extra mile, devoting hours of personal time to the voting process and prevailing in a contest where the odds were heavily stacked against them.

Many of them also backed that effort with their own paychecks, contributing to Dogecoin’s dollars-and-cents sponsorship of Wise and the No. 98 Phil Parsons Racing entry. Most NASCAR fans have never opened their wallets to sponsor their favorite driver, short of buying a new Dale junior T-shirt. Based on that fact alone, Wise’s fans deserve your respect.

The reaction to Saturday night’s fan vote can best be described in two simple words.

Sour grapes.

After three decades of All-Star competition, we should understand by now that the annual All-Star Fan Vote is a popularity contest. Popularity can be measured in many ways; through race day applause, souvenir sales, sponsor endorsements and NASCAR’s annual All-Star and Most Popular Driver fan votes. None of those yardsticks are more (or less) valid than the others.

In 2005, Martin Truex, Jr. won the All-Star Fan Vote, despite having competed in only two Sprint Cup Series races that season. His popularity had as much to do with his team owner – Dale Earnhardt, Jr. – than it did Truex himself, but there was no public outcry over the decision. The fans had spoken, and Truex raced in the All Star Race.

It didn’t matter why Truex was popular. All that mattered is that he was.

It’s the same today.

Josh Wise’s fans do not deserve your disdain. They deserve your applause, and even your envy. They are as legitimate as any of us – whether or not they ever attend a NASCAR race -- and have displayed a level of loyalty and determination that most fans can only dream of emulating.

They are not a lesser version of NASCAR fandom. They are, in fact, what all NASCAR fans should aspire to be.
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http://motorsports-soapbox.blogspot.com/2014/05/commentary-wises-fans-deserve-your.html?m=1
 
I'm sure that most of the reddit users aren't Nascar fans but I suspect that's also true of Lowe's, Home Depot, Bass Pro Shops, NAPA and GoDaddy customers but their dollars still go toward supporting Nascar drivers. Reddit is his sponsor and their users supporting their driver.
 
VaDirt said:
I personally think that, NO ONE should be in from the fan vote. This fiasco just shows that the fan vote is a farce.
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Well Nascar doesn't require fans to vote for the person they think deserves it the most nor for the person they think has the most potential,
So as long as the vote is given to the fan to do as they wish......how on god's earth can one complain about the outcome?
I say good on Doge and lets let Wise relish his 15 minutes of fame.
 
Clutch said:
Well Nascar doesn't require fans to vote for the person they think deserves it the most nor for the person they think has the most potential,
So as long as the vote is given to the fan to do as they wish......how on god's earth can one complain about the outcome?
I say good on Doge and lets let Wise relish his 15 minutes of fame.
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I still think they should earn their way in on merit, not by manipulating the system with a bunch of "fans" that don't know race cars from a hole in the ground.
 
VaDirt said:
I still think they should earn their way in on merit, not by manipulating the system with a bunch of "fans" that don't know race cars from a hole in the ground.
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I'd say yes if this race was about competition but the All Star Race is about entertainment.
And this actually made it a bitt more entertaining in IMO.
And the racing didn't suffer coz Wise was there.....those last few laps by Jamie Mac were EPIC
 
There shouldn't be a fan vote for the 'all-star' race anyway. If you have never won a Cup race, you're not an all-star.
 
Clutch said:
I'd say yes if this race was about competition but the All Star Race is about entertainment.
And this actually made it a bitt more entertaining in IMO.
And the racing didn't suffer coz Wise was there.....those last few laps by Jamie Mac were EPIC
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And in my opinion, they have it wrong then. Should be about the best racers going against the best racers....only.
 
Lol @ ppl getting butthurt over fans of josh wise using the fan vote to vote him in.

I will say again, NASCAR said to vote, they never specified how.

It's a fan vote. They never said fan of what. Some nascar reddit users voted him in because the sponsor made them a fan of Josh. Others voted because they are fans of the car in general. Either way, they're still fans. It's a fan vote.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Yeah, I've been to races and seen lines at her hauler. Nice try.
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I've been to only 4 this year but I rarely see Danica fans. Well, decked out anyway. Not too many at her haulers either. I mean, never more than others. Of course, you mostly see jr fans everywhere. Overall, mostly HMS.
I did have a big group of women in front of me cheering on kk this Saturday though.
 
pudge said:
i would think most of her fan aren't at the tracks. don't have a clue, just guessing on this of course.
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There's actually a ton of green at the racetrack from my experience.. It's unsettling.
 
i'm sure. i also bought her 1st diecast and i would stand in line to get her to sign it, but i'm no way a fan.
 
blanston said:
I guess I've been looking at the wrong places. I've tried to notice but I reckon it's hard to see it all.
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I may have just caught the view of the hauler during a rush or two. I did see a lot of #7 and #10 t-shirts in the stands though.. This was at autoclub this year..
 
Yup, the Danica trailer always has a line of fans, waiting to purchase items. My cousin and I waited in line because his kids wanted Danica hats, and they aren't even NASCAR fans.
 
betcha lotsa small teams are lookin into this form of sponsorship. specially '15 all star race.
does goodyear accept dogecoins ? hms engines ? .....................

dega this fall ....22 x 5,000. = 110,000 dogecoins .....less t shirts / printin...........
 
BobbyFord said:
My cousin and I waited in line because his kids wanted Danica hats, and they aren't even NASCAR fans.
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Seems as though Danica is just as useless to the sport as Josh Wise :rolleyes: Bringing in non-fans n such
 
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