Fixing It

Nascar got itself into this mess for one reason only, money, money, money. They were doing just fine before they felt the need to go mainstream and try and compete with the NFL for fans.

Once they signed their huge TV contracts they no longer were able to call their own shots because now they had to answer to NBC, FOX, ESPN and whoever they took TV revenue from.

As a result we have the made for TV..."Chase for the Cup" which led to the COT. Nascar has gotten way too expensive to watch for the average fan. I remember talking to a guy who had money in Jacksonville, FL and back in 2004 he was already paying several thousand to watch both events at Daytona. He couldn't buy just tickets for the 500 he had to buy tickets for all the races and so many seats.

If I were to fix Nascar i'd dump the COT (stupid idea), return the old points system and dump The Chase and bring the sport back to it's roots. The other problem with Nascar is that it has way too many series it sanctions doing exactly the same thing and people get bored watching a Nascar version of trucks and everything else go round and round. Again this has more to do with trying to satisfy the TV networks.

I would also offer that if they they dropped the COT, the could start a new healthy war between mfgs. I remember when Dale Sr. would be pissed because his Monte Carlo wasn't as fast as the Thunderbirds etc. They need to involve the fans because the cars look the same sans decals, it's turned into a spec series.

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Originally Posted by harvick#1

sorry, this is a professional series, not an amateur local dirt track series.

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I'm sure that guys like Donny Schatz, Steve Kinser, Danny Lasoski, and Sammy Swindell would be very interested in finding out that they are not professional racecar drivers.

And, I guess Tony Stewart doesn't put on professional races at Eldora???

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Originally Posted by Shifter

This list sounds an awful lot like this one:

http://www.caranddriver.com/features...atings_-column

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Not bad....I had never seen that....thanks....especially liked #16

Twenty (20) minutes of each TV broadcast will be allotted to a segment videotaped in the grandstands. This segment will officially be known as “Is She Wearing a Bra?”

Reminds me of one year at Phoenix when I saw a chick flash Dale Jr in Victory Lane

Rodster....

Ticket prices are downright stupid. As an example I can recall when a Start/Finish ticket at Riverside was 7 or 8 times the minimum wage. A Start/Finish ticket today at most tracks is probably 25 to 40 times the minimum wage.

And no kidding about too many fingers in the pie so to speak. They actually turned the Daytona 24 in to a spec car race.....sigh....

I've always felt if Dale Sr. were still alive, Nascar and the France family would not have taken Nascar to where they are today. I started watching Nascar back in the mid to late 80's when it was a fringe motorsport with a bad attitude and a chip on it's shoulder. Today's Nascar has NO resemblance to that sport.

I stopped watching Nascar in 2003 because even back then I felt Nascar had begun to lose it's soul. No wonder the car mfg have begun to complain to Nascar. All the cars are basically the same with the exception of the headlight decals and Mfg logo.

If Nascar continues on their current path they risk alienating their core base even further and the fanbase they want is too fickle to worry about.

Yup, can't really blame ya for that at all Rodster. Recently I've been getting pretty fed up with it myself. I guess that's becoming rather self-evident though.