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Thread: Who exactly is watching IRL?
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14th December 2006, 21:04 #11
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"Oval racing in the modern times, I think will kill auto racing" (sorry I don't know how to use the "quote" button on this new board...)
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14th December 2006, 21:21 #12
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NASCAR is generally a southern form of motorsport. Being from the south, I can promise there are some motorsport fans down here that aren't rednecks. On the same hand, I am not a NASCAR fan and would rather sit down and watch an INDY race on any given day...
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15th December 2006, 02:03 #13
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Well I don't have satellite TV at home, so the only US motorsport I get to watch is a few weeks later at some ridiculous time in the morning on Channel 5
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17th December 2006, 04:10 #14
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I watched IndyCar from 2002 to 2005. But now I don't have any channel on which I can see IRL. It's not so popular in Europe. And it's really different and difficult for me to see a race today, because when you lose your favourite driver (my favourite driver is Paul Dana), you don't feel the same like before. But I have to see Indy 500 in my life.
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17th December 2006, 11:11 #15
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JMO, but I think a lot of it has to do with oval fans vs. road course fans, as Mark in O. alluded to. The oval fans watch the IRL, the road-course fans watch CC.
Many don't remember it, but the issue of more street/road courses and fewer ovals WAS significant with CART back in the '80s. Pre-Internet forums, it was a big issue, especially when CART cut the second races from Phoenix and Michigan in 1989 to dramatically cut out the number of oval races on the schedule.
Oval fans think road racing people are elitists. Road racing people think oval fans are the unwashed. This was the case long before current times and NASCAR didn't just become an overnight success.
As an aside from my point, I will always remember the absolutely dumb Pook public comment: "Our fans don't drink Budweiser, smoke Winstons and drive pickup trucks" (thus alienating and insulting all who do).
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18th December 2006, 12:57 #16
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Originally Posted by indycoolDVR . . . . . Life is too short to watch commercials.
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18th December 2006, 13:02 #17
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True, Lee Roy. But Pook's shot at NASCAR in the way he did it, as others before me have said, didn't do much good for open-wheel sponsorship and fandom in those particular areas of interest -- beer, smokes and pickup trucks.
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18th December 2006, 14:20 #18
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Originally Posted by indycoolDVR . . . . . Life is too short to watch commercials.
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18th December 2006, 14:50 #19
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Originally Posted by indycool¿Quién es el que anda aquí?
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16th January 2007, 04:50 #20
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if any series has good racing it will have viewers
cars buzzing around a track with no passing isnt racing
this is where nascar has gained the advantage over the other series
there is much passing and the winner could be any one of 20-25 drivers
once irl & cc learn how to have close racing their fanbase will grow 10 fold
nascar a redneck series? no way!
nascar's fanbase covers ALL economic and intellectual levelsif you cant stand the heat
then stay out of the kitchen
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