re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Saw a thread on stadiums piping noise in. Do you all feel Nascar pipes in audience noise? And car noise? The crowd after opening ceremonies and start your engine? The engine sounds?

Just curious. I don’t think the car noise is piped. But Nascar goes to great lengths with their TV partners to hide low fan turnout. Even came up with the every other chair paint is different color so it looks like more fans. And rarely pan to all stands unless camera is a mile away. Only pan the start/finish line area fans.

If they go to those lengths it’s a good chance they pipe in fan sounds too. Just a guess

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Cup down 15%, O'Reilly up 27%. is it possible that the fans are finally not watching because the Cup car sucks arse and they were told “if you don’t like it don’t watch”

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Just dawned on me, Hamlin is the Dallas Cowboys of Nascar Cup racing.

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Wait, I thought it was about wins, not championships?

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Nascar was first to use it many years ago

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Tell me when they started using it.


Eta. This was a concept created in the early 60’s. This was not some nascar invention. how long I have been a fan is irrelevant. You aren’t very bright. But good on you for keeping this nascar thread alive. Otherwise it, like nascar itself would be dead

Of course there have been “painted” seats around forever. And sports teams have used them to decorate stands in school colors. Even doing different colors for sections or sets of rows.

Nascar was first to use every other chair different color to make stands look fuller to the TV eye. Thats what I’m talking about. No other sport used painted chairs to mask bad attendance prior. It was in early 2000’s.

Nascar grew big time and tracks increased seats. Once its peak waned then Nascar too seats out and covered sections with ad tarps. Then they did the alternating colored chairs, I want to say Charlotte was first don’t quote me in that. They still use all 3 methods. Remove seats, tarp seats and have alternate colors. When viewed from distance on TV it looks lime fans.

Anyways, stay and post if you like Nascar. We all have different opinions and it’s fun to go back and forth. I’m probably the most “sour” fan of the group concerning Nascar and its direction over decades. It’s still got some great moments like Larson leading then shuffled back to 12th and winning all in the same lap at Dega. That was masterful race-craft and those are the moments I enjoy and carry me thru the bad parts.

Also one little tidbit. I go back and upvote every post (not mine) because we have a serial down voter who has done that to every post for past 3 years. I think it’s that Sir Winton dude just guessing, but it doesn’t really matter.

I just do ups to cancel the auto downs. It’s all in fun because I don’t care about votes it has zero bearing on my posts and is solely for the younger generation. And it cancels the serial voter out lol. Whoever it is has wasted 3 years for nothing lol.

So even if you hate my guts and call me a bastard, Imma give you an upvote to cancel the serial voter out.

Ya, he ain’t gonna change. This goes back to trucks:


Seth Eggert
@SethEggert91

Since 2022, @CarsonHocevar has been:

Fined a combined $150K for retaliations, held 2 Laps for retaliation, docked 25 pts twice, & suspended by Spire.

Fined $50K for a behavioral penalty.

Had to go to sensitivity training, fined $50K by his team.

That's a combined $250,000 in fines in the past 18 months.

Held 1 Lap for intentional self-spins on two different occasions.

Lol Hocevar hurricane I like it.

Thing is the few beat writers tried to anoint him just like Chastain. We really have the weakest reporters in all of sports. But thank Nascar for that they blackballed so many over decades that few want to do report. Nascar makes life hard on reporters who won’t toe their line. Hard cards pulled and other games.

Which is why I try and find X reporters and fans who report about the sport but are not paid or beholden to Nascar. Its hard to find good reporting. Jayski used to be the place to go because he had all the links to so many reporters and stories. When he sold out to Espn lots of readers left. He’s still around but nothing like the heyday when he was the first place to go for racing news.

Getting to my point, with so few good reporters it gives podcasters like Denny so much say. And the few in industry drive the narrative Nascar wants. Denny is ok but his interest is Toyota and not Nascar per se.

Did they get left over trophy from a beauty contest?

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Nascar was first to use every other chair different color to make stands look fuller to the TV eye

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This is absolutely not true.