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mischief posted:Whoops. Oh, how will Harvick manage to get to the front in just 600 miles?
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From a pure racing standpoint it used to be cool because once nighttime hit someone would check out but now it's Martin Truex leading 500 miles with everyone .5 sec behind
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I'm at the street stocks at concord speedway and it's hilarious because nobody knows what to do on a trioval Cookie cutter track = bad Itty bitty baby cookie cutter track = awesome
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Proud Christian Mom posted:From a pure racing standpoint it used to be cool because once nighttime hit someone would check out but now it's Martin Truex leading 500 miles with everyone .5 sec behind From a technology standpoint it used to be interesting too as the extra little dribble of mileage did really make a difference in engine and drive train longevity. Now a motor 'splodin is mostly an anomaly and the 600 is just lap after lap after lap after lap of the same poo poo. I love racing and I especially enjoy going to races. I am highly unlikely to attend another Coke 600 and the race track is about an hour away from my house. And gently caress the All Star Race while we're at it. I've been to a bunch of those and they're almost always massive race fan blue balls. I don't think that race track ever really got it's zag back after Humpy left.
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The sentimentality and nostalgia I have for attending the Coke 600 from 98-02 is all that's saving it from criticism for me at this point. The race wasn't terribly great even then but I got so drat pumped to be there and it made up some of my favorite memories as a kid and still gives me the warm and fuzzies. 
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It’s amazing how we have three huge races on one day and two of them are so bad.
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This thing hasn't stayed green for a full five lap stretch and it's on 38 already E: lol just had a big one in the frontstretch and the guy that was running second has completed 3 caution laps with a front wheel hanging sideways off the car, just won't admit his car exploded shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 02:34 on May 26, 2018 |
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May 26, 2018 02:31
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Ahahaha and then he was trying to pick a fight with the race director and getting banned from the series when my buddy went to turn in his transponder A+++ WOULD PIT PASS AGAIN
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shame on an IGA posted:This thing hasn't stayed green for a full five lap stretch and it's on 38 already The funny thing is Tony Kannan did this at the Indy race in Miami in 2008. His right front was pretty much hanging on, he managed to keep the car going at pace car speed (obviously not at race pace), and kept it out as long as he could so he could avoid going more laps down than he would if he went in the pits immediately. Didn't hurt that green dropped after that accident with 3 to go.
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The Kimoa Kid posted:It’s amazing how we have three huge races on one day and two of them are so bad. I'll be honest, I just hope nobody gets hurt at Indy. Qualification and practice has made that car look pretty sketchy.
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mischief posted:I'll be honest, I just hope nobody gets hurt at Indy. Qualification and practice has made that car look pretty sketchy. We've had a couple crashes so far that involved significant damage. Both drivers walked away.
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So where is Marcos Ambrose? His countrymen are owning Memorial Day Weekend so far. Can anybody get him to Charlotte and convince Tony Stewart to replace Harvick with him tonight?
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May 27, 2018 20:33
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Didn't he have some kind of mental breakdown running V8's the year after he left NASCAR?
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mischief posted:Didn't he have some kind of mental breakdown running V8's the year after he left NASCAR? He couldn't really come to grips with the new V8s and said he was just kinda burnt out from racing.
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RIP KYLE LARSON, THE NASCAR DRIVER
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I just noticed something. If Kyle wins tonight and grabs the title of "having won on every track", it'll only last until the Fall because there will be another track for him to win on in the Chase. It just so happens that it'll be the exact same facility that eluded him before in a much dumber, much worse format.
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May 28, 2018 02:51
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and kyle sighed for there were no more tracks to conquer (wrecks 60 year old man in truck series)
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Cale Yarborough nearly ran a Cup race in 1997: https://twitter.com/nascarman_rr/status/1000834254497107974 That would've been awesome.
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May 28, 2018 03:58
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Pee pee. Poo Poo. It was a bad race.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Cale Yarborough nearly ran a Cup race in 1997: Something tells me Cale might have done well since his car was a rocket ship that year.
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i almost forgot that I watched John Andretti win his first race
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Proud Christian Mom posted:i almost forgot that I watched John Andretti win his first race I always forget that he won an Indycar race too.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I always forget that he won an Indycar race too. Came fairly close to winning an NHRA national event too.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I always forget that he won an Indycar race too. I wonder why he didn't continue in Indycar. He was a decent driver.
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May 28, 2018 19:39
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Meet the new title, same as the old title. Also, no, I don't think I will.
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BMB5150 posted:Something tells me Cale might have done well since his car was a rocket ship that year. Something tells me that being retired for ~10 years and coming out of retirement to run Talladega is bad idea.
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Frond posted:I wonder why he didn't continue in Indycar. He was a decent driver. He wasn’t getting regular rides, and it turns out he was just early to jump from Indy to NASCAR ahead of the boom times.
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https://twitter.com/NASCARONFOX/status/1002597344309858306 Meanwhile, the Youth Movement of Blaney, Larson, and Elliott have combined to win like 4. E- LOL ARCA was having trouble getting across Turn 2 there for a while. Also, Harrison Burton makes his mom cry as much as his dad did. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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That was an Xfinity race that Happened. Decent enough racing for everyone except for Kyle Busch, who hates high-downforce/low horsepower packages but runs them anyway.
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Today's race has been...inoffensive I guess?
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my best buddy used to be a big fan of NASCAR, and he's told me in the past that the sport is basically about to go extinct because of lack of interest from viewers and advertisers. That it would probably be dead in the next 10 to 20 years. is that a real thing?
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Low Desert Punk posted:my best buddy used to be a big fan of NASCAR, and he's told me in the past that the sport is basically about to go extinct because of lack of interest from viewers and advertisers. That it would probably be dead in the next 10 to 20 years. is that a real thing? If they don't shape the gently caress up yes, it's pretty possible.
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Compared to what it was 10 years ago, NASCAR tv ratings and race attendance have both dropped considerably which has of course led to sponsorship dollars leaving the sport. The Las Vegas race this year for example had 4.7 million viewers, a 35% drop from 2016 (7.2M) and and 61% drop from a decade ago (12.1M). There are a lot of reasons for this decline, and I haven't yet heard any good solutions to regain viewers. I doubt the sport will ever completely die though, and I'm starting to think maybe the spike in popularity between 10-15 years ago was more of a temporary anomaly and it will go back to being a niche sport of more dedicated followers.
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I think extinction is very unlikely (especially if American open wheel survived the last 20 years), but I imagine the books look pretty bad if the Frances are looking to sell.
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NASCAR absolutely can survive, it's just a matter of whoever's running it making the right decisions.
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kidcoelacanth posted:NASCAR absolutely can survive, it's just a matter of whoever's running it making the right decisions. What do you think the right decisions would be though? People like to talk about aero packages and race scheduling but I'm not convinced that would be enough.
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Sex Weirdo posted:What do you think the right decisions would be though? People like to talk about aero packages and race scheduling but I'm not convinced that would be enough. There are a million different things to be done and any combination may or may not work, it's impossible to say what the actual solution is. Whatever it ends up being will have to take time to transition I'm sure.
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