Maybe a few years back. They advertise tickets available right up to the race on several tracks.
Look at the stands during races, lots of empty space.
Restrictor plate races are BORING, all of the other tracks are getting boring as well. 43 identical cars going in a circle.
Road races are the only decent races, allowing mechanics to set up the car and drivers to make a difference.
Jeff Gordon did for NASCAR what Garth Brooks did for country music. Neither one has been worth a **** since the early 90’s.
I started losing interest when Ford started racing Tauri after discontinuing the T-Bird (yay, stickers), and I figured the France family didn’t want me as a fan anymore when they took the second race from Bristol and sent it out to California. When they let Toyota in and turned it into a spec race series, I was beyond done with them.
We are so easily offended…..
With electrics the crashes would be more exciting, imagine it, the cars bump, a battery gets dinged and thermal runaway begins! Lots of smoke, fire, outgassing, and the car may still be moving!
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I agree with many, gone are the days when one could go to the showroom, buy a car, rip out the interior, install roll bars, and have a vehicle that actually could be raced from showroom to track. Yes, engines, bodies and chassis were modified, but the vehicle was actually something one could buy. Same with many of the muscle cars of the late 50's, 60's and early 70's. If one wanted to get into racing they could without millions of dollars. What is raced today bears little resemblance to what one can buy without 100's of thousands (possibly millions.) We have lost our way and our spirit to live and enjoy life. Cars have become more like a refrigerator or a stove and people want convenience and comfort over driver experience. At one time almost every model of car had a performance option, now only a few cars are performance oriented, you can count them on one hand and 1 finger (assuming one has all their digits), Mustang, Challenger, Charger, Jeep, Bronco and Corvette. We lived better 50 years ago, no, we lived.
Still the most popularmotor sport in North America.
F1 came out with Formula E and is about as gay as you can imagine.
NASCAR may go that way one day. If so, that's when I will stop watching. The market is correcting for EVs. Be curious how much market share it makes up in ten years. Maybe once we crack nuclear fusion or put a Dyson sphere around the sun. Until then it really ain't ever going 100% "Green" energy.
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No, we will go green, at the expense of personal transportation. It's not about green tech, it's about limiting travel and limiting independence.
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