Nascar just isn't popular with the gereral popualtion

Hotrod said:
I thought I was the only one that lived that life. My sickness runs a lot deeper than just Nascar though.
ie: Indy practice streaming live now at the website (Power just wrecked).
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I understand. I stream F1 practices, follow timing and scoring and wake up at crazy hours to watch it live.
 
Those that run NASCAR have made a bunch of bad decisions, which have run off a bunch of fans. Those that have left have done nothing but run it down. To say it's not popular with the general public is not surprising.
 
29-4 said:
Yeah, I have never met another person who likes NASCAR in college, grad school, or my career. I've converted both of my wives to semi-fans, but they would never watch if I wasn't around. It's probably the main reason I come to this board while I don't frequent boards for my other favorite sports (college football, baseball).

It's the incessant attempts to make it popular among the average person that has ruined it.
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Go 'Noles
 
yes i agree the terms never and no one are certainly not lies or exaggerations!
 
Hotrod said:
I thought I was the only one that lived that life. My sickness runs a lot deeper than just Nascar though.
ie: Indy practice streaming live now at the website (Power just wrecked).
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IDK if you are young or old but if you are young and planing on having a wife and kids and a house you will definitely get over your sickness.
 
The Nature Boy said:
It was somewhat popular in the early 2000s. Jeff Gordon got to host SNL and Will Farrell did that movie with NASCAR. That seems like the peak to me.
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Days Of Thunder with Tom Cruise before that, long before NASCAR's boom in the 2000's, and there was the made for TV movie FOX did in 1997 Steel Chariots, and how can we not we forget Stroker Ace :D
 
Brigeton said:
Besides being a member here I also belong to a couple of hunting and fishing forums. Once in a while there will be a thread about Nascar. With thousands of members there will only be a handfull of replies with most saying they don't like Nascar. Mostly because the cars aren't stock like they were in the 60s.
I never know how to reply as I don't think you can change their minds. When I was young I knew people that raced and I worked on late models for a few years. I guess most people just don't have that background.
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The bold part is the exactly why there opinion means nothing , that is clear luddite mentally and they themselves can not move forward from the 60's to the current point in time.
 
Taco said:
The constant negative crap gets old. Can we have a sub forum for the negative crap, so I don't see it?

WTF
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There should be a sub forum for Nascar and Danica Patrick happy talk where you have to be an invited guest to participate. If there are subjects, posts, threads or members I don't care for I ignore them and it works like a charm.
 
Matthew2470 said:
I am completely islolated as a NASCAR fan. None of my friends, family or colleagues care about NASCAR. When I was in full NASCAR obsession mode people would say "You don't seem like someone who'd like NASCAR." I gave up trying to explain why I loved it so much. They just didn't care.

However, it didn't deter me a bit. Even though I am no longer obsessed, I still love NASCAR.
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For the most part, same here, there a couple of guys in my circle that I could call NASCAR fans, one is, the other just bitches about it, so I try not talk about NASCAR with him any more, got plenty of that here :laugh:
 
NASCAR is niche sport; it always has and will probably always be a niche sport. None of my friends are fans but they are aware of NASCAR - just a little friendly banter comparing racing to golf to hockey. I think NASCAR holds its own compared to other sports and that's not bad.

Besides, young people become old people with more time on their hands - suitable for exploring a new sport on Sunday afternoon.
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
IDK if you are young or old but if you are young and planing on having a wife and kids and a house you will definitely get over your sickness.
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Not really the case, wife and young kid, and that does not get in the way of me enjoying NASCAR, far as I can tell, I am still much very sick;)
 
I didn't attend my first race until I was 36, married and in my third home, and wasn't a fan at all until then. Thanks, Jesse, say hi to Dale for us.
 
To several Nascar fans I know, they enjoy it but Cup races are seen as something to pass the time while nursing a hangover from Saturday night at the local short track. You're more likely to see them wear a shirt with a car on it that has a letter in the car number than one of the Cup drivers'. I'll go to one or two dirt track races a year but it's enormously popular around PA and many people see that as their #1 racing interest ahead of Nascar. That includes spending money on travel, tickets, and merch.
 
Bob said:
To several Nascar fans I know, they enjoy it but Cup races are seen as something to pass the time while nursing a hangover from Saturday night at the local short track. You're more likely to see them wear a shirt with a car on it that has a letter in the car number than one of the Cup drivers'. I'll go to one or two dirt track races a year but it's enormously popular around PA and many people see that as their #1 racing interest ahead of Nascar. That includes spending money on travel, tickets, and merch.
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I have a few short tracks in my area that are well attended and they always put on a good show. For those that enjoy live racing and don't want to travel or go to great expense it is the way to go. No one that I know that are regular short track attenders watch NASCAR as I think they see the 2 things as different.
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
I have a few short tracks in my area that are well attended and they always put on a good show. For those that enjoy live racing and don't want to travel or go to great expense it is the way to go. No one that I know that are regular short track attenders watch NASCAR as I think they see the 2 things as different.
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The main reason for me choosing Kyle Larson as a favorite driver after Jeff Burton retired is because of his dirt background because I attend about 40 local dirt track races a year here in New York. I can echo your statement that not many people at the dirt track are NASCAR fans, though.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I prefer things without regard to the preferences of the general population.
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That's dangerous, because then you could end up surrounded by unfavorable people. Y'know, like all the people that liked emo in the mid-2000's until they realized that most of the "hardcore" fans were whiny upper-middle-class teenagers.
 
Roman Nodonyet said:
That's dangerous, because then you could end up surrounded by unfavorable people. Y'know, like all the people that liked emo in the mid-2000's until they realized that most of the "hardcore" fans were whiny upper-middle-class teenagers.
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Well, if they were influences more by the 'hardcore' demographic than the music, it sounds like they didn't really like emo in the first place. I certainly don't care about the demographic of other NASCAR fans.

Oh, and I don't hesitate to eat quiche either.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Well, if they were influences more by the 'hardcore' demographic than the music, it sounds like they didn't really like emo in the first place. I certainly don't care about the demographic of other NASCAR fans.

Oh, and I don't hesitate to eat quiche either.
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That's kinda the thing about emo, it was more about things like the aesthetic and the idea of "standing apart from society" that appealed, rather than the music, which was just a vessel for the image. And when casual fans realized how self-centered the core fans were, they realized that made them look bad. Not to mention they realized the music itself was lame.
 
Roman Nodonyet said:
That's kinda the thing about emo, it was more about things like the aesthetic and the idea of "standing apart from society" that appealed, rather than the music, which was just a vessel for the image. And when casual fans realized how self-centered the core fans were, they realized that made them look bad. Not to mention they realized the music itself was lame.
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I'll have to take your word. About all I know about emo is how to spell it.

Oddly enough, that's also all I know about the 'edgy Monster lifestyle'
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I'll have to take your word. About all I know about emo is how to spell it.

Oddly enough, that's also all I know about the 'edgy Monster lifestyle'
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Well, like I said earlier, if it's anything like the TV show iZombie, it's all about violent psychotic breaks and the occasional mass zombification incident.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Well, if they were influences more by the 'hardcore' demographic than the music, it sounds like they didn't really like emo in the first place. I certainly don't care about the demographic of other NASCAR fans.

Oh, and I don't hesitate to eat quiche either.
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Quiche and escargot are things I eat that the average Nascar fan doesn't.
 
Too many tracks not enough humans to put in the stands, alot of tracks should be a mall or a football field.
 
jws926 said:
Days Of Thunder with Tom Cruise before that, long before NASCAR's boom in the 2000's, and there was the made for TV movie FOX did in 1997 Steel Chariots, and how can we not we forget Stroker Ace :D
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the Will Farrell movie just made fun of NA$CAR but nascar was to dumb to realize that fact and nascar popularity has gone down ever since.
 
Poop on the general public. NASCAR was doing fine until they started catering to them.
 
Kinda find it disturbin’ NASCAR (or ‘SCAR for our special, hip friends) ain’t all that popualor with the general popualtion.
 
Roman Nodonyet said:
Well, like I said earlier, if it's anything like the TV show iZombie, it's all about violent psychotic breaks and the occasional mass zombification incident.
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Emo or Monster? :D

I know less about iZombie than I do about emo. I'd at least heard of emo before this discussion. Sorry, but I have no basis for comparison; insufficient data. But I'm over it if you are.
 
R Clarence said:
Kinda find it disturbin’ NASCAR (or ‘SCAR for our special, hip friends) ain’t all that popualor with the general popualtion.
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I always liked the term "NeckCAR". Think Jim Rohm(tv/radio sports show host) made that one up way back.
 
AuzGrams said:
Yeah, it sucks not having a ton of people around me that like NASCAR. I'll enjoy my niche sport.
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I agree. My two favorite sports are NFL and NASCAR, I can strike up a conversation about the NFL with just about anybody, but when I try to talk NASCAR with somebody most people look at me like I have a third eye. That's why I'm glad this place exists.
 
ToyYoda said:
I agree. My two favorite sports are NFL and NASCAR, I can strike up a conversation about the NFL with just about anybody, but when I try to talk NASCAR with somebody most people look at me like I have a third eye. That's why I'm glad this place exists.
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Same boat. I know more adult WWE fans than NASCAR fans lol
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Emo or Monster? :D

I know less about iZombie than I do about emo. I'd at least heard of emo before this discussion. Sorry, but I have no basis for comparison; insufficient data. But I'm over it if you are.
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That's ok. iZombie is like NASCAR - it's not popular w/ the general population.
 
I grew up when stock cars really were stock cars and drivers at Daytona and Talledega were going faster every year.

It will never be like that again.

Even though I guess that makes me "get off my lawn" guy, I still love it just because there's enough racing and strategy still going on.

That being said, NASCAR seems to be going out of its way to make point scoring more ridiculous each year.
 
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