The People vs NASCAR

[HoneyBadger]

The trucks just went to a smaller track, had well known dirt and pavement drivers in the race, how did that go? Judging from that, they would be broke in a season. There are a number of pavement racing series racing on small pavement tracks that are just squeaking by or are pretty much gone and the Nascar trucks would have to compete with that level? When the trucks went to Eldora with easily twice as many fans as Knoxville, TV coverage, the works, the teams racing the trucks lost money. How long would that work if the teams are losing money? I just don't see it myself.

Millions of small businesses across America are just barely squeaking by week to week even in a good economy.

 

[ChexOrWrex]

Millions of small businesses across America are just barely squeaking by week to week even in a good economy.

To be fair, that “good economy” has had trillions of dollars blown into it over the past year and a half to artificially fluff it. But thats an entirely different conversation.

 

[HoneyBadger]

To be fair, that “good economy” has had trillions of dollars blown into it over the past year and a half to artificially fluff it. But thats an entirely different conversation.

The economy was statistically one of the greatest in the history of the Republic prior to the pandemic. But it too had trillions of dollars put into it to inflate it.

 

[ChexOrWrex]

Atlanta takeaways: Cup drivers deserved at least a heads up about '22 reconfiguration

NASCAR Atlanta takeaways: Cup drivers at least should have been told ahead of last week's announcement that the track would be reconfigured next year.

nascar.nbcsports.com

 

[carolinabuff]

NASCAR has the fans they've cultivated.

They've been doing gimmicks and manufactured excitement for the past 18 years, pursuing new fans at the risk of alienating longtime fans, and here we are. They have fans who expect the race to come down to a thrilling two-lap shootout, expect championships to come down to the final restart of the final race, fans who expect big crashes and side-by-side pack racing.

NASCAR doesn't know what they want to be because the fanbase is so divided. Some people like to watch drivers wheel a racecar and fight it all day, even if the end result is an old fashioned asswhooping. Others want 75 lead changes every week. And others want this NA18D **** where the cars are full throttle wide open all the way around the track because the intervals give an illusion of the field being closer and the races being better.

Sad but true