IndyCar dominating Nascar in raitings. Has this always been the case?

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Has this always been the case?

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No, NASCAR committed suicide

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NASCAR committed suicide

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This. NASCAR spent the last 15 years putting on a clinic for how to kill your brand.

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This. NASCAR spent the last 15 years putting on a clinic for how to kill your brand

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Ive never watched NASCAR but recall from 2000-2008 or so hearing how it was the fastest growing sport. Besides the noose stuff what else did they do prior to kill it?

As a big NASCAR fan and very casual Indycar fan, I made a point to watch the Indy 500 and the Coke 600 blew arse like it has for the last decade. Ridiculous comparison, this would be like comparing Daytona 500 ratings to one of Indycar's Texas races

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Besides the noose stuff what else did they do prior to kill it?

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Outlawed the rebel flag because ever body flying it wanted to own slaves, not rebel against the man

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rebel against the man

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Here’s a breakdown of NASCAR’s mistakes outside of general wokeness of recent years, Posted before:

It wasn’t just the regionalism, the cars were all different back then. The drivers were allowed, heck, encouraged to shite talk, crash, and fight. The tracks themselves were each different and had character of their own. Thus, people could choose to root for the hometown hero, the really cool car, or that black hat rebel with attitude. They wanted to tune in to see if tensions would boil over at the different tracks, and how the drivers would handle them.

The sport killed all of those appeals by:
1. Moving races out of the areas where they had the most local fans
2. Standardizing the cars to make them all the same
3. Standardizing the new tracks so that they were all mostly the same
4. Punishing drivers for controversial statements, shite talking other drivers, and fighting.

The end result is a bunch of identical cars on identical tracks piloted by cardboard cutout drivers with literally nothing relatable for the casual fan to grasp on to. There’s no more heroes, blackhats, or wild cars. There’s just a bunch of identical cars with different decals.

NASCAR destroyed its own product and legions of loyal fans

That might not be how it’s interpreted now, but the rebel flag’s importance in NASCAR history has literally nothing to do with racism. NASCAR got its start during the 1920’s prohibition as moonshiners and bootleggers needed cars fast enough to outrun the cops. Eventually, they started racing each other for bragging rights. The Rebel flag was often flown by the moonshiners as a f$&k you to the feds who were trying to stop them from making illegal liquor. The flag was a f$&k you to the government, flown at the races (which started out as essentially illegal drag races) as a f$&k you to the authorities.

The rebel flag didn’t become synonymous with the pro-segregation crowd until the 1960’s when it was used as a campaign symbol for Alabama Governor George Wallace who ran for president opposing Lynden Johnson’s Great Society and Civil Rights Act.

Many fans thought NASCAR went too far when it banned race attendees from flying the flag. Others thought that its meaning and perception had changed since Prohibition, and that it was a bad look for the sport. In the end, no one really won, as usual with leftist politics. Leftists still hate NASCAR and point to it as an example of white nationalism, and a lot of people who did watch NASCAR were offended enough to stop watching it all together.

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3. Standardizing the new tracks so that they were all mostly the same

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While they fricked up the 90s explosion by opening up the 1.5-mile cookie cutters like Texas, Homestead, Kansas, and Chicago, they're really making pushes in the schedule for a ton more variety. 2017 ran on 21 ovals and 2 road courses. This year they're running 7 road courses, removed a Texas, Chicago, and Michigan race, changed the Brickyard 400 to the Indy Road Course, and turned the Bristol spring date into a dirt race which was pretty damn awesome. There are also rumors of bringing in a Chicago street race as early as next year.

Really need to kill the stage racing at least for road courses, but they're making a ton of positive changes with the new management.