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Was reading in Sports Illustrated a few weeks ago that the NASCAR higher ups got all the teams owners, crew chiefs, and drivers together to talk about the waning popularity of NASCAR. Fan attendance at the races are down (in this economy...imagine that) and TV ratings are off. But instead of asking the fans themselves, the idiots went within, not for ideas on making the product better, but on figuring out who was to blame without ever looking into the mirror. Seems they came up with the bright idea that Fox is to blame and Digger in specific. Yes, lasses and laddies, NASCAR is blaming a cartoon character.
Hey, morons at NASCAR, here's my two cents:
1.) Too many good old boys are your fan base. Letting in Toyota alienated a good deal of your fans. Stock car's racing roots are running the back roads in 'shine cars, then getting together and seeing who had the fastest car. Letting in a Japanese auto manufacturer just pissed off a lot of people.
2.) Good move with the CoT, which, by the way, is here today, so which genius decided to keep calling it the Car of Tomorrow? Really, the only difference in any of these cars is the decal and the engine. What happened to the idea that racing was about building a car to go fast and if you lost then you went back to the shop and built a faster car? The whole idea of every car must be equal was the basis for IROC and I it just went belly up.
3.) Restictor plate racing. This argument is lame: "fans like close racing." Really? Then why is the circuit full of cookie cutter 1.5m tracks where the cars get spaced so far apart? Some of us like the old style of Talladega and Daytona racing: a pack of ten or so would break away, run like hell and the sling shot actually worked!
4.) No one to fill Dale Sr.'s shoes. Dale Jr. isn't capable of it. Kyle Busch is too hated. Kasey Kahne is too inconsistant. Look at the names that have carried the banner for ages: Petty (if Adam had lived...) Peason, Yarborough, Allison (if Davey had lived...), Waltrip. Gordon and Johnson are too bland. There are no rivalry's anymore, either.
Personally, I haven't given a crap about NASCAR since they started treating the fans like cattle to suck us from our money (five paint jobs a year for teams means more collectibles to buy!)
But for NASCAR to blame it all on a friggin' cartoon character instead of asking the fans is a joke. And it seems NASCAR is content with that. After all, if they asked the fans, they might hear the truth.
Hey, morons at NASCAR, here's my two cents:
1.) Too many good old boys are your fan base. Letting in Toyota alienated a good deal of your fans. Stock car's racing roots are running the back roads in 'shine cars, then getting together and seeing who had the fastest car. Letting in a Japanese auto manufacturer just pissed off a lot of people.
2.) Good move with the CoT, which, by the way, is here today, so which genius decided to keep calling it the Car of Tomorrow? Really, the only difference in any of these cars is the decal and the engine. What happened to the idea that racing was about building a car to go fast and if you lost then you went back to the shop and built a faster car? The whole idea of every car must be equal was the basis for IROC and I it just went belly up.
3.) Restictor plate racing. This argument is lame: "fans like close racing." Really? Then why is the circuit full of cookie cutter 1.5m tracks where the cars get spaced so far apart? Some of us like the old style of Talladega and Daytona racing: a pack of ten or so would break away, run like hell and the sling shot actually worked!
4.) No one to fill Dale Sr.'s shoes. Dale Jr. isn't capable of it. Kyle Busch is too hated. Kasey Kahne is too inconsistant. Look at the names that have carried the banner for ages: Petty (if Adam had lived...) Peason, Yarborough, Allison (if Davey had lived...), Waltrip. Gordon and Johnson are too bland. There are no rivalry's anymore, either.
Personally, I haven't given a crap about NASCAR since they started treating the fans like cattle to suck us from our money (five paint jobs a year for teams means more collectibles to buy!)
But for NASCAR to blame it all on a friggin' cartoon character instead of asking the fans is a joke. And it seems NASCAR is content with that. After all, if they asked the fans, they might hear the truth.