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What caused NASCAR to crash and almost burn?
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:35 pm
If you're reading this, you probably already know that in the 90's they couldn't build enough seats fast enough, backstretches became filled with bleachers, then they couldn't build tracks fast enough.
About 2006 or so the economy crashed and it seems Nascar tanked with it and never recovered. And from there, they really seemed to have lost traction and never got it back.
Rules? The popular drivers grew old? How'd it all slip away so quickly? Or is it just my imagination that the backstretches are now empty?
About 2006 or so the economy crashed and it seems Nascar tanked with it and never recovered. And from there, they really seemed to have lost traction and never got it back.
Rules? The popular drivers grew old? How'd it all slip away so quickly? Or is it just my imagination that the backstretches are now empty?
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:38 pm to Grassy1
yuppies are now drivers, not country baws....which is where the majority of the fans are from.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:40 pm to Grassy1
NASCAR kinda sucks so that's probably what happened.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:42 pm to Grassy1
They went national and took their core audience for granted because they'll neeeevvvveeeerrrrrr leave.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:43 pm to Grassy1
3rd generation snorted Peru, it happens often.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:46 pm to Grassy1
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Or is it just my imagination that the backstretches are now empty?
Not your imagination. I used to drive past Atlanta motor speedway on the way to work every day and would see the bleachers getting bulldozed over. Went to Bristol last year and it was a ghost town.
The dirt tracks still pack them in though
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:46 pm to Grassy1
Rules changes suck and dale death
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:48 pm to Grassy1
Well if you're comparing it to the 90's I'd like to see some attendance and ratings comparisons because the peak happened in the early 00's right prior to the COT that made the cars essentially IROC cars
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:49 pm to Grassy1
When NASCAR reached its apex.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:52 pm to Grassy1
No more redneck drivers actually fighting, Yankee drivers, Yankee tracks and alienating the Southern fans that made the sport. Frick the France family.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:57 pm to Grassy1
France family,Car of tomorrow,20 year old drivers who NEVER had to struggle to get a ride or sponsorship.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:58 pm to Grassy1
Shitty bland personalities and the cars are too safe now
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:58 pm to Grassy1
Double wide's got more expensive.
But for a serious answer probably HDTV and home entertainment. Nothing beats going to a NASCAR even in person, but if you're a race fan you can get a pretty sweet view of the whole race from your couch. On a super speedway you might get 25 seconds action when they drive past.
But for a serious answer probably HDTV and home entertainment. Nothing beats going to a NASCAR even in person, but if you're a race fan you can get a pretty sweet view of the whole race from your couch. On a super speedway you might get 25 seconds action when they drive past.
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:07 pm to Grassy1
They grew too big too fast and lost their core fanbase along the way.
They stopped going to many of the grassroots tracks in the SouthEast, the same tracks that was producing a good majority of their drivers in favor of the casual fan in the Midwest and Left Coast.
Plus, they brought too many pretty boy drivers up too fast that had shite for talent looking for the next Jeff Gordon.
Plus, for many years in their quest to make things "equal" they put a terrible product on the track. That Car of Tomorrow is one of the biggest boondoggles in sports history. My God those things were awful.
They stopped going to many of the grassroots tracks in the SouthEast, the same tracks that was producing a good majority of their drivers in favor of the casual fan in the Midwest and Left Coast.
Plus, they brought too many pretty boy drivers up too fast that had shite for talent looking for the next Jeff Gordon.
Plus, for many years in their quest to make things "equal" they put a terrible product on the track. That Car of Tomorrow is one of the biggest boondoggles in sports history. My God those things were awful.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:13 pm to bamarep
There are now a significant minority in the blue states who find the whole idea stupid.
Wastes fuel.
Occaisional wrecks.
Only cars with deep pockets sponsors can really compete.
Wastes fuel.
Occaisional wrecks.
Only cars with deep pockets sponsors can really compete.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:14 pm to Grassy1
It is mainly a white person sport, and I am not sure if you have noticed, but all things white are on the way out
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:17 pm to Grassy1
It was a fad for the people outside of the Southeast.
But NASCAR went after the fair-weather newbie and got too big for its britches.
The fad faded, the "new fans" left and the core fans were taken for granted and abandoned.
NASCAR gambled and lost. Instead of embracing what they were - a regional sporting event - they tried to go National.
But it was just a curious fad for non-Southerners.
This was the height and the beginning of the end for NASCAR.
But NASCAR went after the fair-weather newbie and got too big for its britches.
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From the late 1990s, and into the early 2000s, a number of new tracks were built and became part of the NASCAR schedule, in places such as South Florida, Chicagoland, the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, the Northeast, and the Los Angeles area. This is part of a publicized trend to make NASCAR a more national sport rather than a regional sport. Today the South Region makes up only 50% of the NASCAR schedule, while the Northeast Region has 19.4%, the Midwest Region has 16.7%, And the West Region has 13.9% of the schedule.
A consequence of NASCAR maintaining its current 36-race schedule is that the inclusion of these new tracks in the schedule results in some of the more traditional tracks in the Southeast no longer hosting races.
The fad faded, the "new fans" left and the core fans were taken for granted and abandoned.
NASCAR gambled and lost. Instead of embracing what they were - a regional sporting event - they tried to go National.
But it was just a curious fad for non-Southerners.
This was the height and the beginning of the end for NASCAR.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:18 pm to Grassy1
what caused NASCAR to suck is the same thing that caused boxing to take a back seat. F1 and UFC are both just, more entertaining.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:25 pm to Grassy1
Has it? 
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:30 pm to Grassy1
Boredom
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