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ive been saying this for years. Late start times for Sunday races are no bueno
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It's for TV, not the race-going fan. It might work, it might not, but when they changed that this year they weren't thinking about selling tickets.
Later starts are more likely to have an effect on those who wait until the weekend's weather forecast before they make a decision. It's one thing to buy a ticket on the likelihood it will run without interruption, as most races do. It's another thing to know in advance it's going to start too late for you to comfortably get home.Ticker prices and other things I'm sure play a lot into that also. I mean, if people aren't going because they worry about getting home to late, they shouldn't go to a race anyway because you know of a thing called rain that could make a 1pm race still start at 3pm, maybe take the next day off after a race.
Later starts are more likely to have an effect on those who wait until the weekend's weather forecast before they make a decision. It's one thing to buy a ticket on the likelihood it will run without interruption, as most races do. It's another thing to know in advance it's going to start too late for you to comfortably get home.
But as someone else pointed out, the fans in the stands don't matter as much as those at home. I too wonder if the shift is having the desired effect. As more people time-shift their viewing, start times make less difference.
Later starts are more likely to have an effect on those who wait until the weekend's weather forecast before they make a decision. It's one thing to buy a ticket on the likelihood it will run without interruption, as most races do. It's another thing to know in advance it's going to start too late for you to comfortably get home.
But as someone else pointed out, the fans in the stands don't matter as much as those at home. I too wonder if the shift is having the desired effect. As more people time-shift their viewing, start times make less difference.
ive been saying this for years. Late start times for Sunday races are no bueno
STICK AND BALL ALERTStill, if you're going to a race and normally work mornings it's probably best to take off anyway, because of the likely hood it could rain. That should go for anything you go to that rain could effect it. Plus Sunday Night Football, and Sunday games late in the day sell out still, so I don't think time has much to do with it. But you know, that's just me.
Ticker prices and other things I'm sure play a lot into that also. I mean, if people aren't going because they worry about getting home to late, they shouldn't go to a race anyway because you know of a thing called rain that could make a 1pm race still start at 3pm, maybe take the next day off after a race.
Later starts are more likely to have an effect on those who wait until the weekend's weather forecast before they make a decision. It's one thing to buy a ticket on the likelihood it will run without interruption, as most races do. It's another thing to know in advance it's going to start too late for you to comfortably get home.
But as someone else pointed out, the fans in the stands don't matter as much as those at home. I too wonder if the shift is having the desired effect. As more people time-shift their viewing, start times make less difference.
I think that depending on the type of work you do, your age and the time you have to get up in the morning the starting times could have a big impact. If I know that I will likely get home from a race between 10-11PM I can deal with it. If that becomes midnight and 1:00 AM then it becomes a problem.
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Facilities with home teams aren't a very good comparison. They have large local audiences and aren't as dependent on traveling fans. You don't see campgrounds around NFL stadiums.
Some people do travel with their teams or further for their team. If I went to a night Falcons game I wouldn't be home til probably 1 or 2 in the morning.
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Facilities with home teams aren't a very good comparison. They have large local audiences and aren't as dependent on traveling fans. You don't see campgrounds around NFL stadiums.
Nascar fans travel from further away IIRCI maybe possibly, but like I said it seems Football doesn't have that problem and they got a lot of late games as well, that sometimes people will travel for for miles and miles as well. If NASCAR was better right now, I think more people would go even with the late start times. It's a mix of how down hill NASCAR is going, and the late times IMO.
Maybe so. But still late start times aren't the only issue. Maybe some people don't think it's worth missing work for a lack luster race.Nascar fans travel from further away IIRC
Some people do travel with their teams or further for their team. If I went to a night Falcons game I wouldn't be home til probably 1 or 2 in the morning.
I'm not a fan of the later start times. Living in Texas, Central Time Zone --- I'd much prefer the races to start about noon.
So see you help prove my point. I'm sure that the only people going to night games are people living in the city of the game. Even 40 or 50 miles see you getting home late.You wouldn't make onto I75 before 1 in the morning lol.
Shortest trip to a cup track form me is 2 hr 45 min.Nascar fans travel from further away IIRC
I'm still angry they took away my caution clock in the truck series.Wait, what are you saying? NASCAR never does anything that is not what the fans want. We asked for the playoffs, we asked for stage racing. we asked for the trackside superstore, we asked for clean air to be king and we asked for later start times and NASCAR agreed to give us what we want. Good grief, do we not know what we want?
I wish I could complain about the later start times, but living on the west , its great, the races start around Noon.
I get it but boy it sucks esp at a track like MIS where you have to tram everywhere bc the place is so frickin spread out.
We didn't get to the car until 745 and campground until 830
Shortest trip to a cup track form me is 2 hr 45 min.
Agreed.I'd like to see Nascar go back to the 1/3/7:30 start times they did for a number of years.
Especially when many nascar facilities are dilapidated compared to the NFL's.I think that's another issue that unfortunately nobody can do anything about. A lot of people don't want to travel those long distances anymore just to spend a day at the track.