NASCAR doesn’t care about its fans. Its customers aren’t the fans. Its customers are the corporate giants who advertise on the cars and the TV broadcasts.
That sums it up, and explains the capitulation.
Perhaps - but the NASCAR fans are the customers of the corporate giants who pay for all those advertisements, so it will catch up to them one way or the other.
That hasn't been working out too well for NOOSECAR lately either. Only a handful of cars now have season long primary sponsorships. The days of knowing every race team just by the color scheme of its sponsor are gone. Every race is a different wrap. Even its premier series doesn't have a season long sponsor. It is no longer the Winston, Nextel, Sprint or Monster Energy Cup series, but rather the NASCAR Cup series. Then we have the gimmicks. Every time my old local track, Freeport Speedway NY, got in financial trouble, the gimmicks would come out. Crasheroos, No Ford races, VW Bug ONLY races, open cockpit modified races...still, that track is long gone. NASCAR is doing the same stuff, the Chase, multiple road(?) courses, the "Roval", dirt races in the LA Colosseum and Bristol and don't forget all the iterations of the Car Of Tomorrow. NASCAR is circling the drain and ever since that lecture by Suarez and the virtue signalling pit road parade at Talladega, they're taking that ride without me.