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I traveled up to New Hampshire from Tennessee for the race last year. IT WAS SO HOT OUT THERE. It was like standing in an oven and I got a gnarley sunburn on my neck.
At IMS, theres almost no lines. I always went on Saturday while Indycar was qualifying, got to get all the Indycar gear, and NASCAR gear i wanted in a matter of minutes. Made it back to my seat just before the fast 9 started
My hot take, the problem was not the tent, the problem was fanatics, their product just sucks. Most people probably think that they’re getting a different product from the merch haulers because it’s presented differently. The reason I come to this conclusion is because of the gypsy tent merchants, they sell new, old, licensed and unlicensed products, are setup in tents like fanatics, and they get plenty of business with few complaints.
Do it. You won't regret it. Nascar is on a role now. One of the best races is coming up now. The Coke 600. I've gotten into NASCAR RU-vid recently to show my passion
I REMEMBER THE TENT! People have gaslit me into thinking that it did not exist, simply a hallucination but NO, I bought JR merch there. That was my first race and since then I have been to many races but I've never had a crazy long wait, 5 minutes at most. The high prices keep people in check.
At Michigan nestled in the middle of the campgrounds, there's a traveling merch sales market. There are dozens of tents that sell last year's merch, die casts, helmets, carnival food, coolers, etc. I avoid the haulers at all costs
They had one of the tents at Talladega this year and I feel like it was way better than the trailers by a mile. I'm shocked they got rid of them in less than a year because of how it was so much easier, efficient, and inexpensive it was to run. (I even went to one in 2014 so I was there to experience them in their prime) But nascar tends to forget many fans just like to complain and just want to wait 20 minutes for a Larson keychain
I might be the only fan who actually adores the merch haulers. Its such an iconic NASCAR experience. The tent just wasn't it for me. Daytona has a nice combo of both though, the track specific merch stores in the concourses are pretty cool but i like be able to go to drive and team merch haulers for the experience.
It was worse when they tried to cram a thousand people in the tent. However The tent concept surprisingly was smooth when I went to an INDYCAR race last year
Love this video earned a subscribe. I've only been to 2 Nascar tracks that being Indy and Daytona, Indy from what I remember was easy you'd walk basically under the track to go to the infield and buy merch. Daytona the one time I really happened to get merch we decided to go on like Saturday this year which made things probably easier considering the weather, but we were able to get everything we wanted and even meet some people.
I go to New Hampshire aswell, and i have not bought anything from a merch hauler since 2022. It was after the race, but pretty sure it took 30 minutes, which doesn't seem like long, but during the 2021 race my dad went to go grab some food from the food concessions under the stands and it took him the entirety of stage 1, after the rain that we sat in for 3 hours, and came back halfway through stage 2. Its crazy how they do stuff and ive brought the same martin truex jr shirt since 2022, and i dont think im going to buy anything from those haulers anytime soon
I went to Vegas this year and 100% agree. While the lines at this specific race weren't bad, what I felt I was missing was being able to feel what I'm buying. I am very picky with my hoodies and what they are made of and I took a shot in the dark by buying a 23XI hoodie and thankfully it was the material I like and I wear it nearly every day now, which is good because my Under Armor hoodie I took with my got signed by all the drivers. My biggest complaint, however, is their location. If I was in my seat and realized all of a sudden "ya know what, I actually want to go get that Sam Mayer shirt" I would have to walk to the concourse, walk outside and by all the food trucks, walk out of the gate, buy it, and then re-enter the gate and do the reverse of how I got to it. Can we please put the main merch haulers inside the gates if we have to have them and make like little booths outside the track for non-ticketed fans i guess?
Man, the issue I have with the merch haulers is every year they’re in a different spot. ESPECIALLY THE RACING ELECTRONICS trailer. Walking the entire length of Texas Motor Speedway tryna find the RE hauler sucks.
In 2022 and 2023 I went to the New Hampshire races (I’m going again this year). In 2023 I missed the start of the race from waiting in the long ass jgr hauler line, I can relate.
I was at Pocono in 2016 and the tents were SOOOO much better. I was in and out in less than 5 minutes. Returned in 2021 and it took over an HOUR to get ONE hat. Luckily there's a bunch of independent vendors that have kinda use the old tent system that sell old die casts and (probably used) shirts and on day 2 of the double header I just went there instead and was out so fast cause nobody wanted to go there lmao.
Replacing the merch haulers with tents was the only good thing Fanatics has ever done. I remember at North Wilkesboro on Saturday last year wanting to get a certain item from the SMI trailer and the line was so long it spilled out of the midway and into the parking lots.
The only good thing I got out of the merch haulers was getting to meet Kurt Busch at the SHR hauler. I always get most my merch and diecasts from the tents and flea market guys outside of the track for a fraction of the cost
I honestly have never had these issues with the nascar merch, I’ve only been to pocono and New Hampshire but I have more issues with getting food and drinks with the lines being long as hell
It’s bad sometimes, I only get shit after it’s signed, if you buy right after a driver was there you can score signed Noah G hats for 40$ and I scored a signed cole c and Riley h hat for 80
I went to COTA this year and the Haulers had pretty much no lines during the entire race, During stage 2 and 3 I was able to walk straight up to the hauler and ask for what I want, I don't know if it's the same for everyone else but the haulers are at least pretty cool to me. I did experience the tent thingy once when I was a kid and I remember liking it but I honestly preferred the Haulers because I could see everything, the tents had these weird lines and everything I felt was spread out. Idk but if they brought the tents back I wouldn't mind but I think I would still miss the Haulers.
COTA is a bit better because it’s a road course and most of the haulers are in a central location and it’s at least a 30 min walk from every single seat
The tints at Dover were great and they had that along with the haulers so we had both I miss when nba and monster energy did some of the fan zone stuff
😂🤣🤣😭💀 I’ve been going to Charlotte and Darlington for years, normally across the street they sell vendors type haulers of new merch and old merch. Of course I’ve bought the expensive stuff but, in most ways I can relate in this video…. But I find new merch half the time for half the price like a 45 dollar t for 25 or 15… it’s such a steal… and definitely at Charlotte people know that… there’s more mass of crowd on the other side of the street than the actual team/driver haulers.
for dirt racing the driver makes most money on tshirt sales and they own the trailer selling the shirts. was probably the same back in the day and now they make enough money to not worry about tshirt sales or convenience.
lol at least they're not the F1 merch haulers. went to my first F1 race last fall at COTA, and the merch haulers there made my wallet cry lol :"") lines were comparable to nascar haulers, because although there are more people at the track, the prices of the merch are pretty disincentivizing, so it balances out
