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How the mighty have fallen. I used to be a HUGE NASCAR fan. Went to Dover Downs twice a year. Watched every race. Went to the Daytona 500 in 2002. All of it.
Now? I could care less. I'll watch the Daytona 500 because it's too cold out to do anything else.
I equate NASCAR to the real estate market crisis: it got too big too fast. The sport alienated its true fan base by eliminating Rockingham, Darlington and expanding to California and Vegas. Couple that with raising ticket prices, the now homogeneous engines they all run (loved it in the older days when a driver had a "secret weapon") and ultimately, the death of Dale Earnhardt. When he passed, he took a part of the sport with him. The brash, arrogant Southern man was lost and as a result, so was the sport.
Like I said, I used to go to Dover twice a year, every year. Ticket prices were $55.00 in turn four and it was 500 laps. NASCAR got bigger and they systematically raised the prices to $110.00 ticket for 400 laps. I'm out. I'll take that money and go on a long weekend vacation.
And now these new rules are just killing the sport. They point system that kicked in, "amazingly" the same time football starts, had an adverse affect. Your driver is out of the top 10? Why watch? Now this? Forget it. NASCAR needs to really take a good look in the mirror and figure out what's wrong.
It was very telling to me when Jimmy Johnson won his record tying seventh championship.......and no one cared. It was a by line on ESPN.
Sad.......
Now? I could care less. I'll watch the Daytona 500 because it's too cold out to do anything else.
I equate NASCAR to the real estate market crisis: it got too big too fast. The sport alienated its true fan base by eliminating Rockingham, Darlington and expanding to California and Vegas. Couple that with raising ticket prices, the now homogeneous engines they all run (loved it in the older days when a driver had a "secret weapon") and ultimately, the death of Dale Earnhardt. When he passed, he took a part of the sport with him. The brash, arrogant Southern man was lost and as a result, so was the sport.
Like I said, I used to go to Dover twice a year, every year. Ticket prices were $55.00 in turn four and it was 500 laps. NASCAR got bigger and they systematically raised the prices to $110.00 ticket for 400 laps. I'm out. I'll take that money and go on a long weekend vacation.
And now these new rules are just killing the sport. They point system that kicked in, "amazingly" the same time football starts, had an adverse affect. Your driver is out of the top 10? Why watch? Now this? Forget it. NASCAR needs to really take a good look in the mirror and figure out what's wrong.
It was very telling to me when Jimmy Johnson won his record tying seventh championship.......and no one cared. It was a by line on ESPN.
Sad.......