Daytona 500

[jbsoonerfan]

Here we go! National Anthem and fly over were good, now let's hope the racing is. Going to be interesting to see if there is much racing or a lot of follow the leader.

 

I'm pulling for the 5 car but wouldn't mind if the 9 won it.

[jbsoonerfan]

So much for the 5 and 9

[jbsoonerfan]

Obviously not a lot of race fans here, but these cars are not made for super speedways. Hopefully they will perform better at shorter tracks. If a driver is able to get a run, he just causes a wreck. They need to at least allow the garage to make the cars better. Overall, it wasn't a good race. Hoping for better things to come.

[GreenPig]

I wouldn't of minded watching from the deck of my boat on the 29 acre stocked lake.?

[Koz]

I used to be a huge NASCAR fan. I went to Charlotte, Darlington, and Rockingham every year. But then things started to change when big money got involved and ticket prices skyrocketed. I stopped going to races and my interested waned. 

 

I turned on the 500 race yesterday for a few minutes and did not recognize the names of most of the drivers.

[Captain Phil]

NASCAR lost me when the cars raced weren't the cars you drive.  Back in the day, the words "stock car" meant what it said.  Who wants to watch a 500 mile race where virtually identical cars follow each other around bumper to bumper and the only excitement is a cash?  To me, this is boring to the extreme.  I guess it's OK if you go to a race to party?   I want to see racing not chasing.  

[Bird]

2 hours ago, Koz said:

I used to be a huge NASCAR fan. I went to Charlotte, Darlington, and Rockingham every year. But then things started to change when big money got involved and ticket prices skyrocketed. I stopped going to races and my interested waned. 

 

I turned on the 500 race yesterday for a few minutes and did not recognize the names of most of the drivers.

Same here. 

Huge Nascar fan at one time, all the way back to Petty and Yarborough. 

Haven't watched a single race since Gordon retired. 

 

[TOXIC]

I’m not normally a fan but one of my fishing friends who used to fish the women's tour professionally and has come to Michigan to fish with us a couple of times (Teri Cindric) her brother is Austin who won the race.  Her other brother is the head of Penske Racing.  So, I took note.  

[purpurite]

Austin is TIm's son, not brother.

[GReb]

NASCAR did it to themselves. I was a huge fan growing up and through the mid 2000s. When they started charging $350+ for a weekend ticket and got rid of free camping people stopped attending races. The rules package was boring and the drivers were stripped of any and all personality. Sponsors dried up as viewers dwindled. Teams were incurring high costs of being competitive and grass roots small timers could no longer make the field. Quality drivers with no financial backing were passed over by drivers with financial backing that didn’t belong in a cup car.

 

I think the new car package could be a major hit though. It’s far from stock car racing but at least racing will be competitive and anyone can buy a “kit”, hire a team of contractors, and make a run at the field. The jury is still out on whether fans can be pulled back in. A lot of that depends on the drivers and nascar allowing them to actually race. NASCAR needs a Cale Yarborough Bobby Allison fight 

[clayton86]

I used to follow NASCAR growing up in the 90s and early 2000s Mark Martin was always my favorite. I don’t follow it at all anymore and joke what NASCAR stands for…(Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks) haha. 
 

My aunt and her new husband who’s big into racing were there sending pics to our group family chat making my dad jealous.  

[Mike L]

Never did get into speedway racing. 
People say watching golf or even fishing shows on tv is boring as hell, but to me watching rolling billboards go around in a circle, turning left all day is the worst. 

I’d rather take a nap

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

[jbsoonerfan]

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

Never did get into speedway racing. 
People say watching golf or even fishing shows on tv is boring as hell, but to me watching rolling billboards go around in a circle, turning left all day is the worst. 

I’d rather take a nap

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

LOL! I had fishing on my laptop and the Daytona 500 and PGA on my TV on split screen. You would have slept well at my house.

[12poundbass]

I used to watch nascar as a kid. My dad and I were and my dad still is big into NHRA. I still watch drag racing from time to time and now that I have MAVTV I’ve been watching dirt track racing primarily the sprint cars. 

[volzfan59]

I watched the race flag to flag even though I'm not a huge NASCAR fan anymore. I bet I'm the only person on here that has held a NASCAR drivers license. See my post on my most moronic moment. I started in modified street division (hobby cars), 4 cyl modified's and finally limited late models. One of the track that I raced a was a NASCAR Winston Racing Series track meaning I had to get a license and build my cars to their specs.

 

I only watch Daytona speed weeks and the night race at Bristol. If NASCAR brings back North Wilksboro and the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway to the Cup and Xfinity schedules, I'll watch those too. Seems like Steve Kennedy, Lisa France's son, is trying to bring NASCAR back from the brink. The various bonehead moves that were made after Bill France, Jr's passing were monumental. Lisa's brother, Brian doggone near ruined NASCAR. He was "voted off of the island" so to speak after his run in with the law.

 

The race was okay, new car seems okay but they have some serious parts issues to work out. Broken shifter cables, suspension parts braking sending cars into the wall and two or three broken wheels, that's nuts. One wheels center broke, the others broke width wise. It's interesting that wheels and suspension parts didn't break when they were testing the new car. Of course no test is as tough as a real racing environment. With all the wrecks and one roll over landing squarely on it's roof, the new car seems safe! I was pulling for the Woods Brother's car.

[Captain Phil]

Drag racing is a lot more entertaining than NASCAR even though it's not anything like it was when Jim (Jungle Jim) Liberman was traveling around the country match racing for a living.  Big corporate sponsors and TV revenue aside, at least you don't have to wait three hours to watch one lap of action.  

[Jigfishn10]

NASCAR was really never popular here. It had a blip when Gordon was racing, but it quickly fell off the radar. If you want to find it, it's up on the upper end of the cable channels along with channels you hide from your kids.  

[TOXIC]

On 2/21/2022 at 11:07 AM, DinkHero said:

Austin is TIm's son, not brother.

My bad, you are right.  There’s a couple brothers and extended family.  

[volzfan59]

On 2/21/2022 at 3:59 PM, 12poundbass said:

I used to watch nascar as a kid. My dad and I were and my dad still is big into NHRA. I still watch drag racing from time to time and now that I have MAVTV I’ve been watching dirt track racing primarily the sprint cars. 

I went to my first NHRA Fall Nationals last year. What a weekend, never seen anything like it. We've already purchased our tickets, premium parking passes and motel rooms for October 2022! I'm also a dirt track fan.

 

On 2/21/2022 at 10:16 AM, GReb said:

The jury is still out on whether fans can be pulled back in. A lot of that depends on the drivers and nascar allowing them to actually race. 

You're tight, NASCAR made a really big deal that the Daytona 500 was a sell out. What they neglected to say was the back straight stands were torn down a few years ago because they didn't want empty seats showing up on TV. Talladega and Charlotte took their back straight grandstands down too. While I guess it was a sellout, it's not the same amount of seats as in the past. The product that NASCAR puts out seems to be getting better, like @GRebsaid, the jury's still out.

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, volzfan59 said:

went to my first NHRA Fall Nationals last year. What a weekend, never seen anything like it. We've already purchased our tickets, premium parking passes and motel rooms for October 2022! I'm also a dirt track fan.

Growing up we went to the Columbus race for several years, then we switched to Joliet (Route 66). 
 

My dad goes to the US Nationals and has for probably the last 19-20 years.