Comments on: Where Have All The Fans Gone? http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/ Your place for Motor Sports News Sun, 20 May 2012 04:52:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Glenn Jostad http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-584 Glenn Jostad Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:15:04 +0000 http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-584 Agreed. When you are fighting for entertainment dollar, you better make sure you have a superior product. Right now they don't. Agreed. When you are fighting for entertainment dollar, you better make sure you have a superior product. Right now they don’t.

]]> By: Steve http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-560 Steve Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:11:46 +0000 http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-560 Nascar spent so much time trying to get the new casual (ADHD) fans to get excited about the sport that they ticked off all their diehard fans into not watching/going to races anymore. When those ADHD fans left due to the next best thing coming along, Nascar is now left with what's left over. The diehards they ticked off haven't come back either. Their top priority needs to be fixing the product on the track. The racing is boring for a wide variety of reasons. 2 of them are the cars themselves and the points racing over winning mentality that they Chase has created. Nascar needs to forget about trying to appease the casual crowd and needs to try and win back its diehard fan base. If it fixes the car and gets rid of the Chase, it will go a long way to getting fans back. But what do I know, I'm just a Nascar fan Nascar spent so much time trying to get the new casual (ADHD) fans to get excited about the sport that they ticked off all their diehard fans into not watching/going to races anymore. When those ADHD fans left due to the next best thing coming along, Nascar is now left with what’s left over. The diehards they ticked off haven’t come back either.

Their top priority needs to be fixing the product on the track. The racing is boring for a wide variety of reasons. 2 of them are the cars themselves and the points racing over winning mentality that they Chase has created.

Nascar needs to forget about trying to appease the casual crowd and needs to try and win back its diehard fan base. If it fixes the car and gets rid of the Chase, it will go a long way to getting fans back.

But what do I know, I’m just a Nascar fan

]]> By: coolheir http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-559 coolheir Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:15:31 +0000 http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-559 Where have all the fans gone??? ...they headed for hier warter ...hee hee hee! Where have all the fans gone??? …they headed for hier warter …hee hee hee!

]]> By: Nate Holman http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-558 Nate Holman Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:51:51 +0000 http://motorsportsweeklynews.com/2010/03/24/where-have-all-the-fans-gone/#comment-558 Agreed. The wine and cheese crowd has left and they ain't coming back. We are now left with a watered down version of the sport we loved back when the 3 car still prowled the track before NASCAR became homogenized. This was done out of greed and so that new crowd wasn't offended by NASCAR's southern roots and it's rough side. Rockingham was euthanized and Darlington stripped of a race including its Labor Day Southern 500. We got cookie cutter tracks to replace them and most race fans will tell they are terrible races. Heck, they even did the unimaginable and ruined Bristol. I still get chills recalling Digger's biggest fan, ol DW, being the first one to run down and stick a fork in the old track at Bristol. Might as well been drilling through the hearts of us fans who loved it. Don't get me started about the IROC type cars we now watch with no brand identity. Teams have merged and these superteams have all but killed the rivalries that made the story behind the races so compelling. I'm a true fan and go to 2-3 races a year but it is more for the party than the race. They can still revive it and the steps with earlier race times, relaxing penalties, and taking the wing off are all good things. Need to continue the trend by reviving the Rock, run the Southern 500 on Labor Day, kill the superteams/alliances and put a car on the track that truly differs by manufacturer. I could go on but will end at that! Agreed. The wine and cheese crowd has left and they ain’t coming back. We are now left with a watered down version of the sport we loved back when the 3 car still prowled the track before NASCAR became homogenized. This was done out of greed and so that new crowd wasn’t offended by NASCAR’s southern roots and it’s rough side. Rockingham was euthanized and Darlington stripped of a race including its Labor Day Southern 500. We got cookie cutter tracks to replace them and most race fans will tell they are terrible races. Heck, they even did the unimaginable and ruined Bristol. I still get chills recalling Digger’s biggest fan, ol DW, being the first one to run down and stick a fork in the old track at Bristol. Might as well been drilling through the hearts of us fans who loved it. Don’t get me started about the IROC type cars we now watch with no brand identity. Teams have merged and these superteams have all but killed the rivalries that made the story behind the races so compelling. I’m a true fan and go to 2-3 races a year but it is more for the party than the race. They can still revive it and the steps with earlier race times, relaxing penalties, and taking the wing off are all good things. Need to continue the trend by reviving the Rock, run the Southern 500 on Labor Day, kill the superteams/alliances and put a car on the track that truly differs by manufacturer. I could go on but will end at that!

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