Explain it to me: Indy vs NASCAR at Texas M.S.

unless it's the Indy 500 nobody watches indycars.

They've been a fringe series for the last 20 years.

I don't really like NASCAR anymore either, but I never found Indy anything close to exciting.

The Indy race at Texas is pretty boring. It's almost impossible to pass, so the cars just ride along in a line at the bottom of the track. Nascar racing isn't very exciting either but at least they can race one another.

I went to the Indy race last night. It was probably the most exciting Motorsport event I've ever been too. Going 35 mph faster than NASCAR around there, you got to go into the garages and get closer to the cars than any ofher racing series would allow.

Indy's problem is ABC/ESPN, screwed them on a contract years ago not allowing any race on another network channel, then abc bailed on all but 3 races, but kept that clause, forcing NBC to use nbcsn instead of showing races on NBC for the remaining 16 races.

In person the attendance was a lot more than it looked on tv, I'd estimate the crowd was 80,000+ Easy. Indy has a lot more upside than NASCAR right now, once their abc contract ends this year...

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Also the Indy racing is much more exciting....way more position changes and you get 4, sometimes 5 wide racing.

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Oh man you couldn't be more wrong. There is no passing at TMs in the Indy series. It may have been different after the repave but it is typically the most boring race with no passing.

The lack of fans in the stands for that race are an excellent example of why people wanted Bernie Eccleston the frick out of the sport.

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yes, I'm a fool and got it wrong.