RATE THE RACE: Coke Zero 400

Hospitality village at Daytona has been the smallest I can ever remember.

No live music in the village, no one giving anything away or vendors walking about and passing out samples of anything.

It was a village that was dying.

This sport has been milked to the extreme in the way of fans, sponsors and dollars. To go along with Buckaroo's thread, I don't know what the answer is but Nascar is regressing and the future does not look good.

Sure, there will be racing in the future but the corporate dollars are not there so everything has to go backwards instead of this meteoric growth we have seen.

There are some tracks that have not suffered like others. But over all, it not a good picture.
 
Guido said:
Hospitality village at Daytona has been the smallest I can ever remember.

No live music in the village, no one giving anything away or vendors walking about and passing out samples of anything.

It was a village that was dying.

This sport has been milked to the extreme in the way of fans, sponsors and dollars. To go along with Buckaroo's thread, I don't know what the answer is but Nascar is regressing and the future does not look good.

Sure, there will be racing in the future but the corporate dollars are not there so everything has to go backwards instead of this meteoric growth we have seen.There are some tracks that have not suffered like others. But over all, it not a good picture.
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Great observation, Guido. Thanks for your personal experience at the track. I agree with the following exception. Is "Going backwards" necessarily a bad thing? If it means NA__AR regressing back to when they actually were up on the wheel each lap and racing, that wouldn't be a bad thing. In fact, if going backwards and NA__'s returning to being just plain old NASCAR is the price we pay for Brian Z.'s "leadership," maybe the picture isn't all that dismal?

Just a thought...
 
The reason that plate racing sucks: The best car of the night combined with the best driver of the night combined with the best pit strategy, fastest pit times combined with most accurately adjusted car throughout the night has a 1 in 43 chance of winning the race. WTF? :confused:
 
BobbyFord said:
The reason that plate racing sucks: The best car of the night combined with the best driver of the night combined with the best pit strategy, fastest pit times combined with most accurately adjusted car throughout the night has a 1 in 43 chance of winning the race. WTF? :confused:
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And the best car has to have a teammate push them.:rolleyes:
 
John Galt said:
Great observation, Guido. Thanks for your personal experience at the track. I agree with the following exception. Is "Going backwards" necessarily a bad thing? If it means NA__AR regressing back to when they actually were up on the wheel each lap and racing, that wouldn't be a bad thing. In fact, if going backwards and NA__'s returning to being just plain old NASCAR is the price we pay for Brian Z.'s "leadership," maybe the picture isn't all that dismal?

Just a thought...
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No argument there, John.

I hope to continue with working in the sport over the next few years because I love what I do and I love the sport. I don't ever see Nascar going back to what it was. That would make them admit that what they have done the last 10 years has been mostly wrong.

Other than the safety improvements, I don't see many positive things that have been done in recent times.
 
I'm going to give it an 8. If it weren't for the two car tandems, probably would have bumped to a 8.5
 
I enjoyed it. I'll admit that some stretches of racing were a little boring, but for the most part it was exciting. There is a lot to watch with this kind of tandem racing. Lots of techniques and politics going on every lap.
 
John Galt said:
Did you happen to notice how many of the stands were completely closed? This is a ploy by both NA__AR and the tracks (In the case of Daytona, that's one in the same) to pack the fans together, thus whenever the cameras show the stands, the illusion is given that the track is filled with fans. In the DVR I watched I also noticed that they were allowing people to stand in the aisle in front of the first rows, (this was a no-no at most of the races I've attended over the years). This also adds to the impression that the place is completely filled.

That's not saying that there weren't a butt-load of people there for the Firecracker 400. But, the track was nowhere close to being filled with people, just the main grandstand.
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That's happened in other sports, too, the Oakland Coliseum where the A's play for instance. But, now back to the doom & gloom.
 
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