What Killed NASCAR? 

I can sum it up in one word, GREED.

Ur right thats what u get when u leave a rich spolied entitled brat in charge!!!!#rich prick!!

I can sum it up in 6 words. Toxicity of the fanbases and mismanagement.

@@henryjames8654 I’d have to add the word “blind” to it. Blind Greed that automatically lets the sponsors run everything instead of putting the best, most experienced actual race car drivers on track with actual stock cars and selling the product where people will come and see it and are/were invested in it instead of charging $100 for weekend seats wherein said sponsors children no ones ever heard of and have 0 reason to care about are learning how to drive on Fridays AND Saturdays and the grads race on Sundays against the dozen or so deserving drivers/teams

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss I agree

Car of tomorrow wasn’t bad. What sorta brought it back was when Edwards went into the fence

Amen brother especially the tracks abandoned the exciting tracks like north wilksboro rockingham hickory etc 4 what rich suits with deep pockets racing is dead it died with Dale sr.!!!!#NASCAR,MORE LIKE PANSIE MOTORSPORTS

Chandler White I agree!! We need more tracks like North Wilkesboro and Martinsville!! Those races were always good races

Yeah its definitely not Hendrick

Amen dude u sure got that right enough said!!!

I haven't watched F1 regularly since 2008, but I recall plenty of commercial breaks.

Yup, there is no good way to watch NASCAR. I would pay for a streaming service with non stop F1 level commentary. But that doesn't exist, instead all we have is non stop commercials and commentators that don't talk about anything besides surface level details and just sound bored and low energy.

@@mirzaahmed6589 There are no commercials in F1 from start to finish for the race and for qualifying

Welcome to America, land of the free and home of the most commercials ever seen on TV

What NASCAR has and F1 doesn't is Capitalism

@Mattixx G Haven't gotten laid in a while, huh?. Lol

@@kayakdog121 LMAO! xD

Everything must be in order. We can't have random people out for a good time. And I hear Antifa is starting a race team.

George Jones said it best in the song who's gonna fill their shoes. The current country music leaves much to be desired in my opinion.

From my own personal memory of racing in the 60's, whether it was stock car racing or drag strip, it was grass roots. Family and friends getting together with some junk yard parts and competing with one another for a cute trophe or just bragging rites. Fun and games until the sponsorships took over. Big money pushed out the locals, and the fun died.

Charles Lee thats what ithink too

Yup, forget your roots and you lose sight of everything.

AUSTIN DILLON WAS ON AN AD AND I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE DILLON FAMILY.

He said Nadcar

A few guys with modified fords racing around dirt tracks

John Doe Exactly I just hope a new generation will start appealing to better audiences instead of casuals all the time.

Yes its not racing anymore its a circus and Nascar officials and car owners r the ring masters and the drivers r the clowns!!!

How about how the fanbase has become so toxic that they have contributed to killing NASCAR?

@Cheetahs Fly 550 HP isn't a lick more than a high-trim stock Corvette, LOL.

All excellent points. Nascar is headed for the checkered flag.

That's a good part of it. I live 20 minutes from Infineon raceway and been going there since the mid 70's. I've earned enough to attend a lot of racing there not just NASCAR. NASCAR tickets are $100.00 and I've better thing to spend money on. Infineon gave to much track control to NASCAR. They eliminated the "carousel" then straightened the track through turns 4-6. I used to park my van at the top of turn 2 where they eventually put the camera crew so I parked 20 back. Then the track owners say no one allowed to park around the track except the motorhome parking above turns 8-9. Next they wanted everyone in a seat. It was turned from a customer friendly track into a customer fleecing track. I still go there 2-3 times a year but not for NASCAR.

That was a major red flag to me as well. I thought they should get rid of sponsors altogether. Even for the different series. Opperate like all the other major sports.

I agree... They dumped IROC, too. That was not a good thing.

Exactly after you went and left the monster girls how bad they look yeah if you're a man you like the way they look but do you want to take your son down there or let him watch out on TV at in the winter circle they're very sleazy looking same thing as Motocross the monster girls look very sleazy and when you got children that's not cool

Damn right!!!!!! But it's ok to have alcohol sponsor a race. Can't remember the race but in 2018 there was a race sponsored by some vodka(I think) brand. Heck, I preferred the Winston Cup. WINSTON WILL ALWAYS BE WHAT I CALL IT.

Exactly

100% right!

Yeah used to be able to leave track with a month's worth of free smokes...ahhhhhh the good old days

right on

Well maybe by 2003 it was less trendy to smoke than how it was back in the 70s when they started sponsoring the top racing series in NASCAR

Big tobacco and alcohol accounted for a fuck ton of money in NASCAR when those companies werent allowed to advertise anymore, all that funding died, and thus NASCAR died as well, guess tobacco really does kill everything eventually...Also i refuse to watch races now days cause the stupid SECTOR shit they got going now, If its 300 laps it better be 300 laps not a F1 qualifying session.

Yes

Canceling N Wilksbro, Rockingham, cutting Darlington and all regional tracks to one race a year was suicide by ignorance and greed. Bill France Jr got sold a bill of goods that lasted just about ONE DECADE and started a slow and painful death to anyone who knew the purpose and mission of Big Bill, which was to simply provide a good thing to racer and fan alike. Same thing happened to D.I.R.T. in the N.E., big money and mirrors moved in and "real racin" went away.

Yep! And building the same track in different cities/states! And Waltrip excusing that saying the tracks aren't the same because one may have a bump in a spot on the track that the others don't. 🙄

As someone who grew up in Rockingham, the only thing that will get me interested in NASCAR again is if at least one race a year returns to Rockingham.

You know what I've had adblock on for so long i didn't even know there were midroll ads in this video lmao

Yeah, it's called AdBlock lol. Who watches RU-vid with ads in 2018?

You're right!!

agreed, I use adblock plus.... what ads???

Hell yeah

You sure about that?

Bubble.....you're Grandad is exactly right.

Amen

I grew up watching Nascar with my dad in the 90s. It was so much fun, cheap enough for all fans, and had such a different feel to it. If you didnt see it you cant understand. So sad.

Your grandad is correct. Now you get a ride because you have a pretty face you can put on cereal box. Before you only got a ride if you could drive. You worked your way up from the dirt and small tracks hoping to get a chance at the big time. The Busch series then the Cup series. Boy do I miss racing. Losing Dale didn't help at all.

Your granddad is partially correct, real racing isn't dead it's just not televised. You can find it at all of the small town tracks all across the country still every Friday and Saturday night throughout the summer.

Basically, we need a new stock car racing circuit. Kill NASCAR and place sponsor limits on cars, no team play, make tickets affordable again, and allow walk-on drivers.

And dirt tracks

Even the most recent internal combustion engine is not 'modern'. Join the 21st century.

@@flyingfishsurf most cars on the road use overhead camshafts. NASCAR started using fuel injection just a few years ago. They still use a rear suspension designed in the 50s or 60s and a front suspension that's even older. In fact, it's so outdated they have to wedge the rear end just to make it handle a turn a high speeds. So, I'm pretty sure you know what I mean when I say, modern.

@@flyingfishsurf and just in case you assume I'm not aware the overhead cam engine isn't really modern, I am, but it's what most cars use today.

Citation needed

Ur 100 percent right

Soon we could say r.I.p nascar 1958-2025

Never was a sport...cars going in circles...lame

@@toomuchisaid928 Its only lame if ur not a fan maybe ur not a fan but seeing how it is 2day hell i dont blame u it is just going around in circles and it is lame now so i have 2 agree with u!!!

The best races in my memory are the ones that were on the radio with Eli Gold calling them...with the exception of the 1976 Daytona and 1979 Daytona.

have* ruined

I agree.

Comrades we must have Party Approved Correct Thinking and Speech.

And just how would you let people in all parts of the country view the races? If you think the pittance you pay for tickets would attract enough cars to the races, you live in a different world than I! Therefore, you have to have help. "Political correctness" has nothing to do with it - the person that wrote that millennials don't watch it nor care that much about cars is much more correct. Look where the US population lives now - 42% of the population lives in 3% of the counties of the US. Many, many more big cities than there used to be - people have much less use for cars than they once did. No conspiracy - just population changes. Same goes for the number of people who hunt any more.

It's always been a advertising on cars.

Thats how all sports are.

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@@zenzen7136 ehh, not really true. Back in the 40's and 50's back when the sport was starting, you would be hard pressed to find someone with a major sponsor out on track. Hell, most of the sponsors back then were just small mechanic shops that wanted some attention.

stuggleboy, the other thing missing, all the practice they got running from the "revenuers" as well as the cash flow generated by moonshine sales. These farm boys didn't come up with the money to race from selling crops. But I guess that isn't socially accepted.

@Ga Fin I'm going to take that as a compliment!

As a northerner i never had the slightest interest in Nascar unless the cars were going to crash into each other and catch on fire. Nascar was chasing an audience that had no interest in their product. It should have stayed a Southern thing.

How much of Nascar's decline is the rise of the SEC in college football? They'd rather watch the Crimson Tide than Earnheart Jr.

Scott Humphreys But you’re watching a video of Nascar, why engage in a conversation with a topic you have no interest in?

@Cody Windham Yankee upstate New Yorker here there is way better Motorsports to be watching like rally watching someone take a left hand turn for the hundredth time gets kind of boring and there's even rallycross for a more fan friendly event

Sebring? Nascar doesn't race there.

Funny the racers today & country music singers all look the same. Imagine trying to tame David Pearson for TV.

Ted Heath You hit the nail on the head. But NASCAR doesn’t get it. The guy who made this video doesn’t get it.

@@michaelpage1030 That's essentially anything that's mainstream nowadays. If you want the good stuff, you have to dig for it. There's still stock car racing. There's still independent country music artists that stick to the roots. Just gotta dig...

I couldn't agree more. Dale was the reason i watched Nascar for a large part.

I agree with you on the intentional crashing they just follow the leader until the last lap then spin them out and win

NHRA drag racing is dying for the same reasons.

You make some good points, thanks for your thoughts.

NASCAR is "vanilla" racing....the same stuff throughout the entire field, and it's boring.

Nascar died when the playoffs came. Now it’s just a bunch of gimmicks to get. We fans that fail miserably

That's AGGRAVATED Stupidity.

Right thats y new Rockingham owners r redoing the track and have reached out to Nascar

If the fans would have shown up to Rockingham and North Wilkesboro then they wouldn't have lost their dates. Same with Atlanta losing its 2nd date. NASCAR takes some of the blame with how they scheduled, but even when near the popularity peak, those races didn't sell out on a consistent enough basis to push for upgrading the track instead of going to new places.

@@mindcrime828 partially true but nobody wants to sit in North Carolina when it's cold. A better race date could of helped out to

@@mindcrime828 and at this point it would be better then pocono, Kansas, Indy, or many others

@@basketballife5838 your point is valid, but if people don't show, they can't complain later when the track loses the date. Michigan often times is boring, and being Michigan the weather is always unpredictable. That hasn't stopped me from going to every race there for over 20 years now.

John D. You may be looking at the LAST titled sponsor major stock car racing may ever have. Because once this contract end with Monster Energy, it is possible no other company will want to spend the money to sponsor the series. The reasons I state this are clear. The maker of this video covered many of those reasons.

TheSmoothGrind : How about we go back to the system and scoring they used to have? Seemed to work well for decades. Attendance and fan interest that would put today’s numbers to shame. By the way jackhole...I have 3 college degrees including a doctorate...and you? Ya, didn’t think so

TheSmoothGrind : stay classy punk

Good point

@@johnd.1849 Please never get cancer John D, it sucks and I would never wish for anyone to get it.

1. Cars have changed definitely, I agree 2. NASCAR needed a new system so it could fit other sports. It isn't the best, but its what we got 3. Don't know what you mean, but if you're talking about stage racing it is different, but its lead to more entertaining racing then one long marathon imo. Also a 10 lap shootout isn't always an occurance. 4. I agree, they don't appeal to the paying fan as much as the TV fan, but right now TV is important. They can do good off that. 5. You want them cars killing people? 6. Its not up to NASCAR time retire a number, its the team owner. Childress did retire the number before his grandson got it. Which I still don't like because he doesn't deserve that number.

and they then killed the sport with toxicity.

Yep. The south. Watching chronologically race by race from 1949 to 1995 I noticed the fan base started dwindling when that pretty boy from California starting wining and winning along with Wallace.

Could not agree with you more!1

cgirl111 I agree 1 million percent nascar is dead now I hate to see a caution every hundred or so I can’t believe they went to heat racing it just sucks now

I used to watch a few of the races. Then came the chase.B.S. Stages? I didn't even watch the Daytona this year. Now, if I watch the road courses - it's on RU-vid. I can't stand Jeff Gordon as a commentator and got really tired of the rest of the crew too. I have better things to do on Sundays - and it ain't "stick and ball" sports. Bury it NOW!

@@TheSmoothGrind now it does not matter who is the fastest and being at the right place at the right time is more important that's not racing!

I like the stages because long green flag runs are boring to watch. There's no action. I just hate the whole points system, they complicated it with all this playoff points and stage points bullshit.

David Miller so true!

Ive been looking through the comments for over5 min and im surprised this is the only comment about dale e ive seen so far It was a tipping point for sure

Loss of Dale Sr did it for us..we never watched again. Losing Dale was too brutal for us! Yes we are Dale Earnhardt Sr fanatics and proud of it! the Oppermans from Texas

Restrictor plates have nothing to do with the downfall of NASCAR. It bloomed under it and since they removed those in the last 2 races they were used on now even those races are boring.Now i agree with people when they say NASCAR is about running in circle. I don't know if you ever played games but just play NS2003 and NH4 back to back tell me which was more fun. The unpredictable NH2003 having you fight and sweat 2-3 wides for 200 laps and have photo finish on every freaking circuit OR NH4 and finishing 2nd with the 1st having a lap over you and the 3rd being 2 laps behind? 90-00 NASCAR about driving skills and strategy. Modern NASCAR about who's the richest prick and who have the best car. You could argue that games aren't real but since they're based on the real thing it's kindda funny that games went to shit at the same time the real thing did with the progressive removal of plates. Weird fucking coincidence. Can't watch or play a race in the modern era without falling asleep. I still enjoy watching old PLATE racing and playing them too. Plates gave us action and that's what i was looking for with NASCAR. It made oval race exciting. Without either that or having cars remotely close to being STOCK cars. NASCAR have no real purpose in life you could as well just be watching F1 because that's exactly the end game of what people like you advocate for. For some odd reason.

No. NASCAR was still good until 2009.

Restrictor plates started before the boom of nascars popularity.

X2, I remember Bill and Dale in Talladega going faster than Indy and F1 cars. Those were the days. Just like the NFL is dying with so many rules about hits etc. and Drag Racing is now 1000 feet (not a 1/4 mile), so too did restrictor plates and aero rules ruin Nascar. Let em run free and fast and viewership will increase again.

Restrictor Plates are needed to cut the horsepower down at Daytona or they would run at 230

Ethan Taube 230 ?? Pfft, they’d be doing 240-250 and that’s what people want to see. Cars are too slow, races are too long. Speed em up again! It all about speed Nd wrecks! Too corporate now. People have the attention span of a gnat.

@@ethantaube2512 If they are required to run stock aero packages, no way the cars will go that fast.

And somehow that would be a bad thing???@@ethantaube2512

lmao

hahaha

They stuck around for about 4 hours wasn't it?

LOL!!!

Lol

That is one of the dumbest things I have heard in this comment section.

.... uhh

show me 1 OEM pushrod v-8 camry, god damn it that shit pissed me off. How much did Toyota pay to be allowed to race that bullshit. I woulda let a overhead cam v-8 slide but not even that. Now the Supra has a TURBO CHARGED 3.0L V-6 it will never have a V-8 off the dealers lot. Oh yeah and it's fuel injected and not carbureted.

Do you mean cheaters? From my. Experience that was every sat. night. Wake up no such thing as stock!

BINGO

You mean the people who got mad because they couldn't bring their own coolers full of beer to the stadium anymore? That fanbase?

Steve Jones actually it is pretty entertaining

We Southerners MADE NAS(TOCK)C(AR)RA what it was! OK Moonshiner made NASCAR, but the South Fueled it! Grew up outside of Darlington South Carolina. We looked forward to the Labor Day Southern 500 and the Spring REBEL 400 Race, and the races in Lumberton NC. Also the Drag Racing in Darlington. Mid 80's stopped going as it was becoming to commercialized, and NOT STOCK CARS! And the STEALING OF THE SOUTHERN 500 LABOR DAY RACE ans giving (selling) it to Kommiefornia. I did out of respect for nascar by going to the last Southern 500, in name only, as was held in November 2004. It was about MONEY! Car Ad "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday" Non-existent now as there are NO stock cars. The 2004 race was the first race attended since the 80's you couldn't tell the cars apart, plus they were only fiberglass bodies. On a side note the 2004 race was the only race I ever sat in the stands, was always in the infield.

Bubba: The "Kommie" comment outed you as brainwashed cult trash.

The rules use to say what you couldn't do, now they tell you what you must do. All creativity, except pushing the rules, has been removed.

Yeah, except the would be racing front wheel drive 4 bangers. Not too exciting.

festor01 The molester? Anyway yah. Yah same with off road racing! Those desert/Baja racing Trophy Trucks are just a tubed metal frame with a fiberglass body. Why not race the trucks we drive ? A Lot of those do not drive a thousand miles without breaking. Steel is strong and ours drive many many more miles.

@@Machi74005 to be honest tho that's the kind of racing i like the most, when you have cars that slow, it can actually lead to more battles and more intense driving. sure fast car races are still awesome, but there's something cool about everyday sedans being driven hard on a track

You mean rallying? I used to like stock car but it’s boring, got into the rallying scene and it’s awesome. Car you can buy racing on regular street roads as well as off roading log tracks. Plus it feel pure and natural

@@Machi74005 Charger hellcats, challenger hellcats, Ford Mustangs big blocks,etc arent 4 bangers but stock cars you and me can buy.

richard rohrer yeah but the big teams have cheater parts on their cars and with the fuel injection, nascar can change how fast a car will go. The playoff cars all of a sudden are the fastest by a lot. I wonder why. My friend used to work for nascar. He found out nascar controls who they want to let have the faster car. Some times Harvick, Kyle, Both Penske drivers, Elliott, Truex, or the 3 car. Its not about who is the best driver anymore.

The problem with Kyle is he's racing in wrong decade. Always where he can cause problems and is fast. Kinda like Dale SR. 😀But not a "good ol' boy".

Kyle Busch. Nuff said. The dude’s a douche.

I mean you can complain and hate Kyle Bush all you want, but he's probably the closest thing you have to drivers back in the late 90s and early 2000s during the 'good' days of Nascar. Even with the filter placed on drivers by modern politics and media. Kyle is one of the few if not the ONLY drivers who holds a persona that we know and either love/hate.

I don't see how Kyle Busch had hurt racing . Kyle and Kurt have both won championships like the Texas bros Terry and Bobby . Bodine bros Geoff and Brett and Todd . I always thought it was neat to see brothers in the field . Biggest thing that's hurt Nascar are the fact that it tried a little too hard to cater to the casual fan . Just like the NFL , Nascar said " Hey folks , we got our hard core fans addicted.......so lets go get them casual fans . " Stage racing is a flat out joke , it would be cool for Bristol but I hate it at the Super Speedways and 1.5 mile tracks . They took a lot of strategy away when dealing with pit stops , gas milage ( I always thought it was neat when somebody snookered the field with a gas milage strategy .........but NASCAR wants all the races to end the same way .)"

@@jimijakjones99yle Busch missed 1/3 of the race season , yet NASCAR gives him a waiver so he can win the championship. That killed the sport plain and simple.

Yeah I may stop watching next year stages playoffs next gen car safety number placement wheels it’s ugly nascar ruined racing or stock car racing only series I can watch is xfinty but martinsville race made me want too stay

No the fuck it isn't lmfao

@@Habit.0505meanwhile I’m prob not going to watch next year

@@acerosstine49 okay good for you?

@@Habit.0505 I’m saying nascar is losing fans especially ppl my age

Poorly aged comment.

I was a fan from the 1970s and the final straw was when Kyke Busch "won" the championship after missing 11 races.

That and electric vehicles being the future. Budding technicians and engineers are probably leaning more toward electric vehicles these days than the internal combustion engine. And not so much SUVs, but most cars these days do plenty for the average person, so the "ooh and awe" of a racing car isn't there anymore.

You have to be freaking kidding? The fastest Trans-AM or Corvette in the 70s was slower than the average production car today. 0-60mph in 6 seconds was fast in the 70s. Today we are in the 2s and 3s

Funny thing, I had a 67 GTO with a 400 & a 4 spd and 325 hp , it did 15's in the 1/4 mile after I align bored and parallel decked the block, balanced the rotating assembly, installed 12 to 1 pistons a cam and lifters, roller rockers, headers , intake and a carb! It even got 6 mpg doing it!! My 2006 GTO with an aluminum LS2 has 400 hp , a 6 spd manual and independent rear suspension with 4 wheel discs all stock and turns high 12's low 13's all day long and gets 22 mpg doing it !

I don't know, because GT racing and F1, whilst different formats of racing, just because people don't own a Porsche or a Ferrari doesn't mean people are gonna stop watching because they can't relate. The viewer numbers have increased this year compared to last. The racing in at Atlanta, Vegas and at Phoenix was pretty damn good to watch.

I think you are onto something. Cars are pretty much appliances nowadays - there is no emotional cache about cars symbolizing freedom and independence like they did to baby boomers. There are prototypes afoot of autonomous air vehicles that can be summoned by iphones and shared by others in the same areas. I think most people in large population centers would be receptive to this. Totally different culture.

That's why I really quit watching. Then one day I click on the race....it say 5 laps left. Tight, close racing. Who's gonna win? 4....3....2....1.... End of stage 2. What the actual fuck. I turned it off and haven't watched a live race since. They need to pull back on this stupid shit and go back to full races. Not several heat races combined to make one race.

I love the fact Matt crafton won the championship without winning a race and proving how dumb those rules are

That what the IROC races were for.

@@akutan224b Right. And they sucked too.

The truth is you're not wrong Shawn. Not a lot of people are going to see the appeal in watching people drive in circles. Yes, there are people like me who enjoy the strategic parts of the races, but most other people just find it boring. NASCAR has tried to make it more down-to-the-wire, but stage racing, while interesting to the more analytical fan, doesn't make it any more exciting for anyone else.

@@if6was929 Hahaha Democrat gay soyboy.

Available alternatives. The average person has access to so much more that they could be "watching" (not to mention "doing") because of the internet. Going to the races might be a novelty for some, but seems like a waste of time to indulge regularly.

He does have a point. I prefer watching Nascar footage from the early 80's, 70's, 60's and even the 50's because the cars you saw on track were moderately-modified production cars. Race on Sunday, sell on Monday. I want to see proper, old-school stock car racing again. Not near-identical, build-by-number rolling shells with practically identical pushrod engines that make the same noise with the only differentiating features being the different brand stickers on their noses.

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@Dan Thomas The sad thing is, NASCAR remained somewhat competitive a few years following his death. It wasn't until they introduced the chase in 2005 and the COT in 2007 that the sport really began to hurt itself. I'm all for making the sport safer, mandating the Hans device was a smart move and creating the safer barrier was also smart, but they didn't need to create the joke of a car that became the COT platform. Despite saying that the Gen 6 cars are not the same cars as the Gen 5 COT, they basically are. NASCAR hasn't been truly stock since the late 1960s, so I'm alright with the Gen 4 race cars. But the Gen 5 and Gen 6, along with the chase and the predictability of the sport have really killed it. Jimmie Johnson "winning" 7 championships is what really did it for me. If they didn't have the chase format, Johnson wouldn't have won the championships that he did. He took advantage of a poor points system to win his championships. If Earnhardt raced under that system he'd have won it every single year. It became even more of a joke when one win got you locked in for the chase. Earnhardt would've really loved racing under those conditions. "Ah, all I have to do is win one, well why don't i go head and win 7. While guys just happily won 1 and got in and relaxed for the rest of the year, Earnhardt would've made sure that nobody else got in. I don't know how the system is now, I know they have stages which is stupid, just run the full race. The sport isn't the same anymore. From 1975 until 2010, the race winner was award 175 points with decreasions of 5 every spot after 1st. 2nd got 170, 3rd got 165 and so on. That is how it should be, it was a simple system and it worked for nearly 40 years. When NASCAR abolished that system then they really dug themselves in a hole. Now they have playoff elimination and it's just too much to explain, suffice to say that unless the sport makes major improvements over the course of the next five years, the sport is probably dead in the next 15. I think they need to get rid of the COT, revert back to the Latford points system and abolish the chase.

The chase didn't kill it considering there is no more clinching before the final race. The rest NASCAR does needs to fix.

right what made racing so great in the early days was anyone could do it. nascar used to help local short tracks now they just let them close and people can t afford to race and lose intrest

sure it kills it brian little teams can t even try to qualify

@@BrianSchaffer I agree with this....matt Kenseth 2003 season is why the chase was created but it wasn't the reason for the lost of fans

You fool Toyota is more American then Chevy or Ford

not to mention, RU-vid.

They need to get past just 3 manufacturers At least bring Dodge back in BMW wouldn't hurt

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the reason why everyone mentions those companies is because of the fact that Chevy, Dodge and Ford were THE American car brands

@@charlescourtwright2229 American Muscle! 👍👍👍👍👍

Last I hear Dodge wanted to be there but didn't think they could accomplish anything with just one or two car owners. Until they can get at least 3 or 4 cars in the starting grid, they are not willing to make the commitment. Bill France is not sure there is support among owners for a fourth manufacturer

That's what truly killed it.

There are actually People who think NASCAR race cars are the same cars You can buy off the dealer's showrooms with roll cages added, shows You how ignorant People are about cars today.

When it first started they were really close more than they are now not sure what a engine cost now but its definitely more than a person with a regular job could afford

Not to mention the crowd of "me want to go fast and cum into tailpipe" crowd is aging out and dying away, thank God. The mature people buying cars today just want to get to work and back and stay alive. NASCAR and any car related to it are not interesting to most people. The cars are completely irrelevant to most people's lives and a desire to race them around even more so.

When it started... one driver went into a showroom, bought a car, did minor stuff to it and raced it that weekend. I remember in the 1970's they had to have a certain number of production cars sold with the exact engine used for racing. Buick/Chevrolet got mad at Pontiac because Pontiac put their name into the molds for one variation of the heads for the engine and thus Buick and Chevrolet could not use those heads for racing. My parents bought a Buick and every time they took it in for an oil change all of the mechanics gathered to look under the hood. We found out it was one of the NASCAR qualifying engines, randomly put in that car on the assembly line. 12 years later when I rebuilt it, getting parts was a pain because NOTHING for the standard version block fit. Different crank so different crank bearings, Different camshaft, different lifters, different oil pump, different fuel pump, different carb so I had to go to a racing shop to get the carb rebuild parts...

Clinton takes it in the ass in a prius

Stage racing is what they created so Nascar doesn't have to throw as many phantom cautions. Either way both are stupid.

No literally stage racing is what killed it for me. I actually liked the lucky dog, it made it interesting. Then they had to make the green white checkered and stages along with yellow flags to refuel. UGHHHH

I SERIOUSLY Know Right?.

I say: Change stage racing to heats. First heat: 20 cars. Second heat: another 20 cars. Third heat: Top 10 from stages 1 and 2. This would make the tiny tracks like Bristol and Martinsville a lot more fun to watch... and the pit roads won't have to wrap around the whole track.

@@fumedrummer No no no, just have 43 drivers race. No segments, heats or cautions to refuel. Just good racing.

Then how does that explain the gen 3 and gen 4 cars?

Mike Fury Tech Well, 2008 was the year with the highest gas prices I recorded in Vermont and that probably was the case for the remaining northeast states. The most noticeable problem of 2008, were gas and oil prices. 2012 was almost as bad.

Raymond Eldridge Yah same with off road racing! Those desert/Baja racing Trophy Trucks are just a tubed metal frame with a fiberglass body. Why not race the trucks we drive ? A Lot of those do not drive a thousand miles without breaking. Steel is strong!!

@Jim Watson fun fact, Ford just came out with a new 7.3L OHV "big block" V8 for their 2020 pickup lineup, imagine using some of those motors for racing

Yep!

Be American buy American

Duane Mitchell - #rememberpearlharbor

Chris Boyd what's American anymore? Even Harley's outsource a lot of their production parts to other countries.

@@georgedz302 Exactly! I'm glad to see someone else reciting my line.

Yep, when my favorite racer retired, Ricky Rudd, I lost interest in NASCAR . Gave up my season tix and probably haven't watched but maybe a couple races since then

answer is money hungry

That's the bottom line. Perfect reply. All the other problems stem from that.

Cars today are nothing more than appliances.

Andrew M Overpriced appliances

That's not completely true there are us car enthusiast that love our car as a piece of ourselves, from mustangs to gtrs, eclipses, camaros, challengers, supras, and so on not all of us nessessarly street racers but all of us share our love for our cars, but I am not gonna disagree with you there has been a serious decline in people wanting a car for what it needs to be they buy it for day to day use nothing more. Hell barely anyone is buying manuals anymore and even the car industry knows that and they've been selling way more automatics and sadly this generation is so fucked up beyond repair I dont know if the car world will fight back with any strength left because of even the car industry's taking small down falls of there cars. For example the eclipse no longer being a sports coupe but a fucking SUV crossover, evos discontinued, making lambos into SUVs and camaros these days aren't event selling that well so far our only hope is ford and dodge with the mustang and challenger.

100% exactly right.. it used to be that people watched because they could work on cars, loved cars, or they pulled for a manufacturer. You don't have that at all anymore. People just don't have that interest and cars don't mean anything to them...just a necessity.

Cant wait for the Nancy Poloci 500. Some sports are meant to be regional.

auto racing is everywhere

Leonard Burnett Pelosi 500-constant Left Turns😁

I think you're right about Dale

BINGO!!!! Earnhardt's death absolutely was the beginning of the end for Nascar.

LeStraTele not necessarily you just gotta do a little searching. Last 2 years I went to Fontana buying the Chase Elliott Q&A package which has a ticket for both xfinity and cup and totals to $70.

Pretty reasonable at Martinsville

We should talk. Thank you for sharing. If you really want to know, here is the guy to ask! No bullshit twitter.com/TheIntimidator6

Damn, you know your shit.

Toyota out Dodge back in would help, going back to smaller tracks too.

agreed and i add that sponsors also can spend minimal for social media marketing compared to plastering a car that will air on a restricted cable station.

Basically what i was going to say but you hit it on the head. The old days are gone and i would bet the farm never will they listen to the little guy sitting in the stands. The best racing will always be where all this started is the local dirt oval tracks that guys are actually doing their best to stay on top and not a damn Hollywood Days of Thunder movie. After Dale SR passed it hurt bad but then Adam was the final draw i never watched another race after. These super speedways killed the sport. Nobody wants to watch their favorite driver tumble for thousands of feet wondering if he will ever walk again. Long live the small tight racing tracks.