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re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Posted on 4/21/26 at 12:55 pm to
Posted by OU Guy
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 12:55 pm to
Only two drivers have finished on the lead lap in all eight Talladega races with the NextGen car:

Kyle Busch
William Byron
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:37 pm to
If you want to know what the NASCAR shills over on SiriusXM have to say on the matter:
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Posted by Cliff Booth
Member since Feb 2021
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:02 pm to
frick it. Let’s put the baws out there in electric Tahoes, Expeditions, and Sequoias! /s

Such a dumb point. Why wasn’t this a problem for how ever many decades these series have run together?

The NOAPS car isn’t the problem, the Cup car is the problem. Change the Cup car.
Posted by OU Guy
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:09 pm to
Yup Pete is all in on the Nascar propaganda. Sold out to them. Nascar controls the media and press passes to get into tracks and garage. Get out of line they pull it.

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Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:19 pm to
Jr basically said if they moved to electric then JRM would be out and the series would cease to exist.

Note: NORAPS is same as NOAP

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Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:30 pm to
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Front Row Motorsports

@Team_FRM
Ball is in your court,
@stephenasmith
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Posted by sledgehammer
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:16 am to
Has anyone listened to Kyle Busch on Hannity’s podcast? I’ve been seeing snippets posted from the interview, and I want to know if it’s worth a listen.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 8:36 am to
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I can’t even hear the Cup car over the sound or the O’Reilly car.
Posted by OU Guy
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 10:21 am to
Posted by OU Guy
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 10:33 am to
Wow, NOAP is really gaining!

Kelly Crandall
@KellyCrandall

The CW numbers for Kansas, which was the most-watched race there in three years. And another O’Reilly race over 1 mill this season.


Posted by OU Guy
Member since Feb 2022
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 10:40 am to
quote:

Has anyone listened to Kyle Busch on Hannity’s podcast? I’ve been seeing snippets posted from the interview, and I want to know if it’s worth a listen.


I haven’t watched but saw this:


Steven Taranto
@STaranto92

Something that caught my attention from Kyle Busch's interview with Sean Hannity: Kyle mentioned that his team "got our hands smacked" by NASCAR after winning Gateway in 2023 for what they were doing to their cars and were told not to bring it back.

"In 2023 when I won those three races, after the third race that we won at Gateway, we got our hands smacked for some of the stuff that we were doing to the race car that NASCAR didn't like and said 'don't bring that back.'

"It wasn't anything, like, against the rules. It was just, you always exploit the gray area. So we exploited a gray area and we found something and we had an advantage."

Kyle mentioned that something that drew him to RCR in 2022 was that he felt like they were ahead of the curve on the Next Gen car (citing Tyler Reddick's success), but that they've since fallen behind.
Posted by Gulf Coast Tiger
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 11:59 am to
Motorsports viewing is up all over the US
Posted by OU Guy
Member since Feb 2022
29565 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 12:47 pm to
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Motorsports viewing is up all over the US


Except F1. They won’t release any honest numbers but all my friends and even adult kids stopped watching it and don’t talk about it. Some have migrated to Indy and some just stopped completely. A few watch NOAP and Cup. But it used to be a buzz (F1) and now they just don’t even care.

Indy is making huge efforts to increase viewers while Nascar like they have the past few decades just shite all over themselves. Nascar coming out and even mentioning an electric car yesterday could not be worse timing after the F1 fiasco. And their farm club series is gaining on Cup.

NOAP and Indycar are in great spots to take advantage of F1 missteps. F1 grew a younger demo prior to this year but the problem with that group is no loyalty. They leave fast just like old days when clubs would thrive and die almost overnight as young crowd moved on. There just is no buzz about F1 like prior years. The Apple and electrics have killed it.
Posted by Gulf Coast Tiger
Ms Gulf Coast
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 1:14 pm to
You keep harping on F1 without proof for or against in our market

In Europe it’s down in some areas and way up in others

No matter how many times you scream the same thing F1 is by far get biggest and strongest motorsport in the world.

It’s not my favorite form of motorsports, so it’s not like I’m defending my favorite sport.

Now if Miami, Vegas and COTA suffer from attendance numbers then we will have some solid proof
Posted by OU Guy
Member since Feb 2022
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 1:20 pm to
I don’t care about the world I care about USA. And in the states F1 is tanking and NOAP/Indy are increasing. You could have a bazillion Chinamen watching F1 and it has zero to do with US market. I am based in USA and care about US racing. F1 has lost many US viewers.
Posted by OU Guy
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 1:44 pm to
Cup was up too. Almost 3m is a big number

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Posted by Gulf Coast Tiger
Ms Gulf Coast
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 2:32 pm to
You have no idea of its tanking or not in the US
Posted by OU Guy
Member since Feb 2022
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 2:38 pm to
If it was increasing Apple would plaster the interwebs with the news. Since they won’t publish its tanking. You can read all the online comments about F1 failing its for sure not increasing lol. The electric fiasco plus limited viewing - no way have they dine anything but tank.

Go ahead and believe what you want. Its the same thing Nascar went through changing to car of crap years ago. I would bet F1 lost 25-30% but have no way to prove it just like you have no way to prove it hasn’t tanked. We all know its down though that doesn’t take much to figure out.
Posted by Gulf Coast Tiger
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Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 5:28 pm to
You are just guessing

Even without any recent races the most listened to racing podcasts in America are all F1.
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 6:07 pm
Posted by XenScott
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Member since Oct 2016
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Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:40 am to
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Cup was up too. Almost 3m is a big number


3 million for a race that is not Daytona or Indy really is a big number. Really interested is what Talladega does.
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