re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread

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I’m not a huge fan but was looking forward to watching today.

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Hard to get new fans when they have to postpone to a weekday afternoon.

Not NASCAR’s fault obviously, but if I hadn’t been introduced to it by going to a race, this weather part would keep me from ever tuning in.

Doesn’t happen in any other sport.

I'm pretty sure I said this in last year's thread and I'm saying it again, NASCAR has the worst luck. It seems like every time they have a signature event and the sports day all to themselves the weather ruins it. Rain outs, rain delays, races shortened due to rain. It happens every time.

I was looking forward to the race today. Tomorrow I'm busy and can't watch.

NASCAR should try to make all their tracks with lights for Monday nights. Their season starts right when football ends. Most people don't want to sit at home on a Sunday afternoon to watch racing, but will do it on a Monday night.

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The bad news is that the serial downvoter probably had his whole afternoon planned around downvoting every post in this thread during the Daytona 500. What will he do now?

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You know that they can't race on a 2.5 mile track at 180-190MPH.in the rain, right?

That's not how this works.

Rainouts don’t happen in baseball?

Pretty sure there was a World Series game postponed because of snow a few years ago.

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but imagine this happening with the Super Bowl.

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Yeah, well the NFL doesn't attempt to make 36 cars that weigh 3800# running 1.5 seconds apart make a turn running 200mph.

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Rainouts don’t happen in baseball?

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I was waiting for this.
Rainouts in baseball are irrelevant for any other game than the WS.
Your game rained out? Watch a different one.
WS game rained out on a Tuesday. No worries, they play in prem time the next day.
NASCAR has one race per week. Rainout means they have nothing. Then they race in the afternoon.

It’s not anything like baseball.

Guy above said nascar won’t be big time because of this. He got 9 downvotes. His argument has validity.

Exactly. What the heck else is NASCAR supposed to do? Can’t race wet ovals and simple as that.

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Guy above said nascar won’t be big time because of this. He got 9 downvotes. His argument has validity.

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What is NASCAR supposed to do about it?

Also, NASCAR has already reached big time. Its popularity isn’t what it once was, but there was at least a time where it was the second most watched sport in the U.S. behind only the NFL. Obviously rain outs weren’t holding NASCAR back when that was the case.