“NASCAR is dying because the cookie-cutter cars are boring”
Don’t forget:
cookie-cutter drivers
cookie-cutter race tracks
cookie-cutter races
My favorite line used to be (to my open wheel and F1 friends) “it’s the last, honest, unscripted, real racing on the planet.”
Obviously I haven’t said that in a while.
The European Touring Car series is worth a look...same with the Australian V8’s.
If NASCAR was smart, they’d let the domestic marques race their 2-door RWD V8 cars like Mustangs, Camaros, Chargers, etc.
You’d see not only attendance/viewership spike, the sales of those models would increase as well.
I think you guys both nailed it. You could also add “horrible TV commentary.” I loved DW as a driver but he is AWFUL in the broadcast booth. If “unlistenable” isn’t in the dictionary, it should be, with DW’s picture next to it.
We had Brickyard 400 tickets every year for 18 years; excellent seats, too. But IMS really isn’t suited for NASCAR, or maybe you could say the COT is definitely not suited to IMS. Either way I found myself taking a nap between laps 80 and 130. Well hell, for that I’ve got a much more comfortable sofa at home that doesn’t cost near as much. We finally gave up our seats after the 2010 race. And we’re not the only ones.
Used to be we didn’t miss too many races on TV, either. My boys used to line up their die-cast cars on the floor and have their own race while the real race was on. Those days are a distant memory.