6 Reasons Why More People Are Watching NASCAR
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- The 2024 NASCAR season is young but so far there is a positive direction of momentum. TV ratings for all non-delayed races is up double digits year over year and while fun is something I like to look at more in depth. Why is this happening? Well, today we are going to look at 6 reasons why more people are watching NASCAR.
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Why do you think more people are watching NASCAR this year?
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unmatched racing product with the next gen car, Atlanta, Netflix, SVG
The Netflix series and the Cup races so far (with the exception of Phoenix of course) have been absolutely incredible.
McDowell Supremacy!
The product has been fantastic!! 2nd year as a fan and im already more locked in than last year.
One of the reasons why I think more people are tuning into NASCAR is I think people are sick of the Max Verstappen dominance in F1. So you got some F1 fans watching NASCAR now.
The rejection of Andretti was also a slap in the face to many American viewers.
Reminds me of what happened with Hendrick and Jimmie Johnson in the 2000s and 2010s
That makes no sense. They don't aire at the same time. I live in the West Coast. F1 start usually between 6-9am. NASCAR usually 11 maybe noon?
@@etotherescue2010 Some people will go out of their way to watch a live race. I woke up early at least a few times just to watch international racing. I’m sure that there are many motorsports fans who would wake up earlier than normal to watch a race.
@@acegarcia3719tell that to Liberty Media, the American company that is ruining (sorry, I meant running) F1.
Dude SVG is a big reason people are watching XFinity cuz he’s got at least 2 countries following him from overseas.
For sure, always watched a bit of Nascar, gizzy has me defiantley tuning in more since he ran in Chicago, kostecki at as well. I know im watching truck and cup as well. Im Aussie
I was visiting family and relatives this past week and for most of them, it was their first time watching NASCAR and they all genuinely enjoyed it!
I suppose KG's 2025 prediction isn't happening 😂
I grew up during NASCAR's boom period you referred to but drifted away around 2010. I think a commercial for the Daytona 500 during football season piqued my interest again. I watched the 500 and then found out about the Netflix series. I binged that as well as NASCAR RUclipsrs and haven't missed a Cup race this season. I think digging into the history more and realizing it's not just drivers turning left has kept me interested. I've looked forward to every race this season after one ends.
EDIT: I forgot to add - my wife, who's never watched, won't admit it, but she has been entertained as well.
Fantastic time to return to the sport. The new cars have developed nicely, the new age of drivers are flourishing, the racing is pretty damn good. Overall NASCAR is trending back up. Still far from perfect... but its a damn good product right now.
I started watching NASCAR this year, mainly due to RUclips. I saw EmpLemon's video about NASCAR and the Art of Revenge on my recommended videos, and since then, I started searching more. I haven't watched all the races, but so far, I've enjoyed them a lot.
EmpLemon's video is a big reason, a big intro to NASCAR for newcomers.
Whatever the reason to all the new fans i want to say welcome to our sport :)
I used to be the guy that said, "Its Just Circles"
And i learned to appreciate the Startegy Battles controlling the Fuel & Tires, the Incredible side by side action and Draft battles...
Though, as an European im surprised of the ClusterF**k of a Points system... WE are the ones supposed to make things complicated, wtf😂😂
Can't rule out Harvick's presence in the Fox booth.
I also want to give an honorable mention to Fox’s coverage. Not amazing but an improvement from last year. Plus the intrigue from seeing Kevin Harvick in the booth and the praise he’s gotten.
The goofy cartoon-like drivers needs to be removed
There still needs to be a MASSIVE rehaul. Mike Joy nees to retire, Clint Bowyer should be fired, the pit reporters need to be replaced, and Crank It Up needs to come back
@@S.K.R.E.Inc. Exactly, we need fresh meat and new voices. Total Respect for Mike Joy and many others like Darrell Waltrip, but its time to get some new talent.
The booth team is complete for the first time in years
Part of what contributed to Nascar's golden age was the CART-IRL split and perhaps we are seeing that again but with F1, that the dominance of Max Verstappen and the rejection of Andretti is benefiting Nascar's popularity.
This is a big one that was missed in the list. F1 is a snoozefest... NASCAR has been hype nearly all season for one reason or another.
These F1 reasons are exactly why I’m giving NASCAR more attention this year. There is very little to get excited about on track, the off track drama is a shitshow, and Andretti’s entry rejection was a gut punch. F1 is getting less headspace from me as a result so I’m using it as an opportunity to give NASCAR a fair shake.
I’m already a big fan of Indycar, IMSA, and WEC. Pretty certain NASCAR is joining my list of “need to watch” motorsport if the trajectory of this season keeps up.
@@minisuds777 True, Endurance Racing is booming as well with the Hypercar/GTP machines that race competitively.
Maybe it's because they are desperate for a title race so they resorted to this. Imo
F1 is to motorsports in the US as is International Football to American Football. Most Americans don't care. Will we watch it? Eh. Will we give a damn who wins? Depends on if he's American or not...Oh wait, that's right. There are none...*changes to DirtTV app* Drive to Survive gave F1 a momentary boost in the US, but most fans quickly realized it's like watching the 1950/60s Yankees on wheels.
I think the great start to the season has more people tuning into races. The Daytona 500 was really great and then we had one of the best finishes in NASCAR History at Atlanta. Something is always happening week in and week out in NASCAR this year, and I really think that has more fans tuning into races.
I would say Netflix, F1 having Red Bull win everything and Chase being there. I think your seeing many people wanting to give their time to a racing series where different drivers can win. I would also say Fox has improved and with the CW, TNT and Prime will help give a boost.
One of the reasons of this reasons and this is the reason I came back doesn’t feel as gimmicky as it use to be. Now they still have the stage racing and that fun shit but it doesn’t feel gimmicky anymore and the finishes don’t feel gimmicky anymore I remember almost every week from 2022 to 2023 half the finishes felt gimmicky
I just picked up Nascar for the first time since my childhood. What brought me back? I saw a post showing the 24 car in victory lane at the Daytona 500. I was a Jeff Gordon fan from the day I could count that high, so that blast of nostalgia really triggered something in me. Haven't missed a race since Phoenix. Glad to be back after almost 20 years 🤙
I’ve only started watching again cuz I went to Michigan International Speedway. It was my first nascar race and it was a blast
Yes. Watching a race in person is a whole different experience. My wife who is not even a race fan loves going to a race.
I started watching again this season and I realized the auto club speedway which is the closest to me closed down.😤I was looking forward to going to a race
@@josuerivera7547 that’s so sad. I’m sorry to hear that
Personally. A lot of my buddies, who were never racing fans, got pulled into Motorsports by F1 in 2021. Now that Max is so dominant, they’re getting pulled over into NASCAR w/ cheap tickets on top of better show.
Now if NASCAR drivers could be featured more in commercials like what Kevin Harvick did in the Mobil 1 ads. I don't expect anyone to be a household name like Jeff Gordon or Dale Earnhardt, but more normies would be attracted to the sport if the drivers were in ads. Like if JH Nemechek drove off the track to go order Wendy's through the drive through, get back on the track, and then he's eating Wendy's while driving.
The main reason on why people are watching are cause the Netflix show, Denny Ryan and even nascars main insta page grew by hundreds of thousands after the docu release, yes I kept track months before till after the release
I would say that fans have come over from F1 after being burned out from the Max Verstappen show. F1's ratings have dipped massively and the sport in general is going through PR hell
Not to mention the disaster that was Vegas street course in F1 after Chicago 1-Uped them in NASCAR cars
F1 is still top dog in racing.
@@leonardfrey5426Well yeah, it’s a worldwide sport, so it’ll probably remain top dog, however their on track production is certainly lacking compared to NASCAR.
@@WhopperJrNoCheeseF1 forever has been and forever will be not as exciting in wheel to wheel racing as NASCAR. Because NASCAR is pretty much a spec series, while F1 isn't, so the car performance varies. NASCAR also throws stage cautions to artificially bunch up the field. There's also the fact that RedBull got things right early on and have ridden their advantage ever since, while the other teams are scrambling to catch up to them.
Another point is reliability. Cars in F1 don't blow up nearly as often as they used to, especially the top cars.
And the last point is the unreal driver that is Max Verstappen. The guy doesn't put a foot wrong. He is a relentless machine. I don't really like his racing style, but I think he's up there with the greatest drivers ever, Fangio, Clark, Stewart, Lauda, Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton.
When you give a driver like Max a perfect car precisely tailored to his driving style, you have total domination.
In truth, F1 is an engineers sport. NASCAR has parted ways with the Smokey Yunick and Junior Johnson types a long time ago. In F1, these are the exact people who make the biggest difference.
Adrian 'aero wizard' Newey is the best example of that.
@@S.K.R.E.Inc. the vegas race was top 3 of the season. Zandvoort, Vegas, then Australia were the best races last season. I could really care less what the locals think about the race. It's not like they were seeing any money go into the city to being with
NASCAR will never be what it was again and its unfair to ever expect it to because the circumstances it arose from were just way too rare and unique a confluence....BUT it can still be really good and as a fan from the 90s who came back during COVID, that's why I'm here.
It still has potential to grow back to what it was but the playoffs and Phoenix being the finale is what is holding it back.
I just started watching again this season after stepping away after 2016. I had been watching every week since the 90s, all three top series. I didn't care for the cars, Stewart was retiring, and the fact a driver could win a championship in 2015 after missing the first 11 races, (30% off the season), left a sour taste in my mouth. I don't have a problem with KB and he won it based on the rules, but I am admittedly a Harvick fan. I would still follow the sport but stopped watching full races.
Garage 56 competing at Le Mans and RUclips videos like yours, iRacing, & the Dale Jr. Download podcast is what started to pique my interest again. I was surprised Garage 56 wasn't mentioned in the video, but I guess it could be filed under viral moments. I like the newer cars and tracks on the schedule. It's also cool to see a lot of younger drivers in the series. I don't really have a favorite driver anymore. At this point I just watch it now for the racing, which has been really good so far. I'd like to see an increase in horsepower and I still don't care for the points system or the win it all in the last race playoffs. Here's to the rest of the season being as good as it's been so far!
I loved your six reasons. I am one of the diehards. I was alive for the passing the grass and have been a fan all my life. I was a big deal Jarrett fan for obvious reasons after his last rates I was a diehard and still am a diehard rowdy, bush fan, I only have one other reason that you might want to add. Especially in the lower series I have always rooted for the women in the sport because I think it’s good for the sport. I rooted Danica, Patrick every race she was in. That was a bust lol, but now I’ve turned my attention to Haley Deegan the next possible best lol but I do think that women coming up through the sport has a big part to do with the success of the series. We now have a couple of women coming up whom I will root forthe same as always. Feels like I was born in NASCAR fan and I will die a NASCAR fan. I watch every race I can, and always will!
As a diehard Nascar fan of 14 years, I'm one of those people who think it's still cool to this day, and this season right now is proving it so far.
I think Atlanta has a lot to do with it lately. My friends who don't watch nascar have seen that finish and are more interested now.
People need to realize that not every week is gonna be so amazing. Racing has ups and downs. Each race has its own story.
This is my uneducated opinion, but I think it comes down to 2 factors:
1. The lack of Chase Elliott brought the ratings way down at the beginning of 2023.
2. NASCAR: Full Speed really helped people get educated on the current stars and get invested in them.
I started watching after seeing emplemons videos on dale Earnhardt. Then after learning Jr wasn’t even racing anymore (this was around 2018) I just didn’t even bother looking. Then for whatever reason I started to be more interested after watching videos like yours popping up in my feed. So last year I watched some of the main races and now I watch them all. Starting to like some of the new racers.
5:25 i do that lol 😂
Hi, F1 fan here, I got into NASCAR after watching the Netflix documentary. I love that there are full race replays on RUclips. Which is great for me as I live in the UK.
I started attending races again with my own money in 2021 at Dover, and every race I go to I bring at least 2 friends. I have 1 friend who I watch a race a year with, and another who is more available and goes to every race I go to
As an Aussie Nascar fan I am still not able to watch the truck series and can only watch the last stage for the xfinity and cup because the races start at 3-4 am for me. Kinda wish they would have so more night races or start more races a little later. Would be nice.
Normally by mid week RUclips has a full race replay of all three series. If u want to watch the trucks live here in Aus there is a streaming service I can tell you about.
@@user-tb7fg4mu6v I know that they have the replays on RUclips I would rather watch them live, I watch the Xfinity and cup series on Kayo Sports
I'm from Europe and for many years NASCAR was a big unknown to me. I still don't understand everything about NASCAR today, but watching all these races gave me a taste of competition like watching other races, Formula One, BTCC, DTM, etc etc
100% was due to the Netflix doc for a me and few mates here in Aus.
For the Cup Series, at least. I think it helps to have the first month of the season on network Fox, not cable.
During the 2000s boom years an underrated factor I believe was Fox having almost all their Cup races on network, with just a few on FX.
We'll see if the momentum continues with the pivot to the races mostly being on FS1 in April.
Also NASCAR was kind of the only big game in town for a month. It will now have more competition starting this weekend with March Madness, then the Masters, and then the NBA / NHL playoffs. I'm happy and optimistic, but the circumstances get more challenging from here.
I think the racing product im general is whats bringing people back in, atlanta was definitely cool but we seen something at Bristol that we havent seen in close to 10 years with the way the racing was, comers, goers, lead changes, strategy, bristol will be a staple of this season for sure
This is a W, I am celebrating more people watching this sport even after these non-NASCAR fans watching NASCAR Full Speed on Netflix coming into the 2024.
1:20 I mean when Harvick dnf’d the race was over for me. Hell, went to the 600 in 2018 (like every year) and when he blew the tire on lap 90 we just went home.
I’d say, like in other sports like if Duke is out of the tournament the season is over, nothing left to see, I’m only interested in my driver/team. (Now Larson)
You’re not a nascar but a pilots fan.
Legit I'm as hooked on racing as I was back in the late 2000s early 2010s. Maybe it's a want to harness my childhood nostalgia, maybe it's because I feel I missed out alot and want to experience it the way I did when I knew every driver and every team and every crew chief, either way I'm happy to see NASCAR on top of its game again despite a few nitpicks!
1:20
I only miss truck or xfinity or cup races if I'm out of town
(Or for March Madness like these two weekends)
The only time I ever deliberately skipped watching a Nascar race since i became big fan during COVID was last year's Championship 4 bc I had Gustavus honor band and Nobody was in final 4 i liked so i watch higjlight vid and called it good
I'm watching from Australia because of the NASCAR drive to survive thingy on Netflix
When I was growing up I was huge into nascar haven’t watched it for prob 15 years but I haven’t missed a race this year
love to see this
One downfall is the races starting after 3pm Eastern... I understand that Las Vegas and Phoenix have to (being on the West Coast, but why Daytona, Atlanta and Bristol?...Start those at 1pm Eastern...COTA this weekend should be a 2pm start
I got into NASCAR last season and it’s cool to see that the sport is growing right about the time I started to get into it. I’m a huge football and baseball fan and I got to say NASCAR races are starting to feel like NFL to me I get excited to watch every Sunday
Definitely a combination of Max Verstappen’s winning streak, Chastain’s wall ride, Netflix’s Full Speed, and the three-wide finish at Atlanta.
i think that the fact that nascar is being more viewed by people outside of america is a big difference, i should know, i was one of them, now people from other countries, mostly brazil and mexico, can just turn on the tv and watch
1:16. Im a Bowman fan, haven't missed any cup races since homestead 18
The tire this year has been a huge improvement for whatever reason by Goodyear, were the tire does not cause the finishing order to be turned upside down and inside out Goodyear is definitely on the right track, now all they have to do is start using ice tire design pattern tread on all short tracks all the time maybe with multiple compounds available😮?
No need for tire wars just to detune the tire resulting in much more strategy how does slippery surface,? Who needs power when you can't put it to the track?
Better than narrowing the tire, simply increase the pounds per square inch by decreasing the contact patch by adding grooves / treads?🎉😮? I've been preaching about the tire and wheel combination since the beginning it was a no-brainer for me and Dale Junior?
I’ve been watching NASCAR since 2004; it’s know it’s been declining due to schedule realignments, costs, popular drivers retiring, and weird rules, but I still enjoy the competition because I’m both a loyal fan and car enthusiast.
THE CAR: For the first time in a long time the car looks up to date with the times with the wraps and styling. Visuals are a big thing for many people. Imagine NFL players in big white neck rolls in 2024. Many diehards would still watch, but it looks outdated. The next gen car especially the new mustang and Camry this year look nothing like previous generations. I would hope xfinity moves in the direction as cup.
I think the Garage 56 showing in Europe has a big impact too to the current increase, people are wanting to see the huge fuss that beat the European big dogs
I'm sorry but this is unhinged.
The Garage 56 had about as much in common with a cup car as the street legal Camaro has.
They added downforce and all kinds of performance enhancers, it's not like they picked up a Cup car and sent it to LeMans.
They also didn't have to abide to any of the homologation and BOP rules that all the GTE cars did.
Call me a traditionalist. But Atlanta is Not a superspeedway. You can't cut the nuts of the cars and them say Hey! It's a superspeedway now
Exactly. A superspeedway at the BARE MINIMUM needs to be 2 miles (like Auto Club, Michigan, Indianapolis, and Pocono used to be)
You aren't a traditionalist. We call what you are "reasonable". Atlanta sucks now.
@@OriginalCurtAtWork Give the surface a couple of more years, and the tight draft will be gone, and it will be like racing at Daytona in the early/mid 80s (just not at 205mph)
I’m like you with trucks and xfinity, I hate missing those races as well as cup races
Hype. NASCAR has advertised constantly on Netflix and tv
One of the things that was so great in the early 2000s was the paint/consistent main sponsors. If NASCAR teams could get large full season sponsors instead of the field looking unrecognizable week to week, i think this would also build momentum. I find a lot of the cars look very boring and if you are trying to catch someones eye in 40 seconds or less you need better designs and something familier that someone can associate with a driver. Imagine if a football team had a different logo each game? I was a Jeff Gordon fan as a kod and i sure didnt need DuPont paint but i was obessed with thay car and knew was DuPont was. Sponsor homerun right there
New fan here…moved away from F1 since vettel stopped winning,
Mercedes got to dominate and so few takeovers.
What I hope nascar would promote is the drivers better so there’s a person I can root for…I like the variability of each race.
I watch every Xfinity and Truck race even as a Kyle fan
Another reason is that you haven't had 1 race on FS1
Honestly I moved to Dawsonville GA and found out it was chase and bill Elliot’s home town and it’s a big deal. I said well if I’m gonna live here I’m going to support our town hero. I bought tickets to Talladega for my first race last year and have been hooked ever since
Loved new Atlanta right after Daytona
I have been watching regularly since ~2019 only because I’m a sprint car fan and I finally realized how good Kyle Larson was.
My brother has finally gotten hooked on NASCAR after watching the Netflix documentary series.
My dad was a Dale Jarret fan and I became a Jeff Burton fan, my brother chose Mark Martin and we used to rush home from church on sundays to watch the races. Everything changed in the late 2000s and we all fell out of love for the sport and never returned to it. Now, having watched the finish to the Daytona 500 race this year, my interest was peaked. I don’t watch most races due to work schedule and such, but i never miss the RUclips highlights after the fact. I think a big reason for the loss of interest was that the racing went a bit stale with the Car of Tomorrow and other factors such as some of the big names and families no longer participating. I have no idea who these guys are, nor do i care as much as when the Waltrips and the Earnhardts were racing. Seeing so much success of a single racer (Jimmie Johnson) made it not desirable to return.
I hate the playoff structure and think it should be tossed but what has gotten me interested again is the quality of racing and at times, the chaos. You talked poorly of the phoenix race but i found it thrilling because of sometimes 6 wide racing into the corners. That is actually amazing if not traditional. I think that the racing this year has been good, and be=ven some of the best i have seen since I left the sport as a fan. The Pixar equivalent finish certainly has helped. I mean… wow.
That Atlanta finish is one of the reasons
I used to watch a long time ago, but fell out over time.
This year, I decided to give the sport a chance again, giving it a fresh start.
Weirdly, I feel like RUclips documentaries were the biggest reason I felt like coming back.
Overall, the racing has been better this year.
Less will watch next year because the new TV deal had to add cable (and Amazon) races and take away races form network TV. More FS1 and USA races is not a good thing.
WORST. TV DEAL. EVAH. (Beats 2007-2014)
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.Well Look On The Bright Side. At Least TNT Is Coming Back To The Sport For The First Time Since 2014 And No ESPN In Sight Thank Goodness.
As a Briton who has only ever really watched the Daytona 500, I’ve been really into it. Definitely did enjoy the Netflix series
Definitely not because of foxs great camera usage, so many times this season things are being talked about and were not getting a replay even for like 20 seconds if at all lol
its me, ive been telling all kinds of people about this amazing sport!!!!
Shane van Gisbergen has a lot of Aussies and kiwis tuning in to watch. Its not just xfinity, its the cup races and trucks even if he isnt in them, I have followed Nascar a bit over the years. As they used to show it over here in the 2010s.
He has a lot more people following him over, than Ambrose did when he went over. With Kostecki having a run. Talk of a couple more supercar drivers getting a coulle of runs over there, there will be more Aussies and kiwis watching, our v8s are a bit of a snore fest at the moment, so there is that as well
Probably the best things to happen to v8s is Gizzy going to Nascar, Scotty going to Indy car.
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Netflix brought me to NASCAR. I thought it was boring before I saw the show.
i've been watching bc i usually keep up with nascar from Superbowl to MLB starting, and this year ive tried to commit to keeping up with it all year
Kind of curious if you iceberg and the other nascartubers have also been noticing the upward trend ( not just subs but views and that) and if that's helping the upward trend?
I actually haven't watched a race in 2 years. I have a full schedule and I don't have a tv, so I have to catch the highlights, so I'm not as die hard of a fan as I used to be, I try to, with my schedule. I still keep up. I USED to watch every race, Cup, XFinity, and Truck, and if it was a race with a cup guy in a lower series, I would lose interest, I would pull for the guys in their series. I watch racing for racing, regardless of who is or isn't in the race. There is one guy in trucks I keep up with because I saw him race (and win) locally at my home dirt track last year and has run really well (6th at Atlanta) But with my lack of tv and a full schedule I don't know who a lot of these up and comers are, I used to follow even the feeder series to see who the next big stars are.
One big factor
I will say watchers are up
Is more people are staying home to watch due to cost.
Ill admit i grew up watching nascar, loved that Terry Labonte Kellogs car, but i stopped having interest but i watched Drive to Survive and it got me into any kind of racing i could watch but i seem to just love nascar now, especially these new Next Gen Cars
In short: NextGen truly is NextGen. Everything went upwards slowly since they first hit the pavement in Los Angeles. And it's only getting better (at least the in-person experience, CRINGE should not have been part of the new TV deal)
My cousin has starting checking in on NASCAR because of gambling so there's also that.
The first batch of Cup races were all on big Fox - not cable.
If you love the sport, you watch the Cup races regardless. Missing Xfinity or Trucks is like missing minor league baseball games or D league basketball games if you're into those. It's just not comparable. I don't watch eithe of those series just becuase a Cup driver is in it either. I just tune in if I feel like watching or think it will be a good race. For Cup though, I'm all in.
The only problem I have, is will Nascar have the same problem as F1. As a British fan of motorsport, I am on the outside but F1 had a boom in US viewership post-Covid due to Drive to Survive and the season long championship battle in 2021, but has now declined as F1 has gone back to the 1 team dominace DTS kind of glossed over and 2021 gave fans a false sense of reality of what an average F1 season is like (I also know with F1 it is hard to watch races most of the time with the time differences so that is anothsr factor). The start of the year has been amazing to watch as a fan but I have to wonder if Nascar has a few too many boring races in a row, will the newer fans stick around or leave like they did with F1?
Nascar couldn’t have asked for a better start to a season (ignore Phoenix). Clean hard racing, exciting finishes, new winners every week, consistent lead changes for the most part. A big thing I think that is adding to the increased viewership is accessibility to the race itself. Up to this point every race was shown on Fox which doesn’t require some ridiculous amount of money to pay for. I wouldn’t be surprised if viewership dips when races get shown on FS1 and USA network but as it stands now the stars have aligned perfectly for nascar to this point.
Didn't you watch Chicago last year ? Even though he's not in the top series yet, he has single-handedly given Nascar a huge boost. Go Justin Marks.!!
“then you had Phoenix… moving on”🤣
Fox is doing a good job broadcasting, and there has been little competition with other sports series. Wait until March Madness kicks off and MLB gets rolling.
The Netflix documentary and Chase Elliott mainly.
Remember this is the stretch of races he missed last year. Makes a big difference in ratings with and without your sports most popular driver.
NASCUM Also Helped
I started to watch Nascar because im Trying to EXPAND my Motorsport categories, now i watch:
F1, MotoGP, SBK, WEC, IMSA, ETRC, KARTING, NASCAR, AMA Motocross, WRC & WRX
the die hards are the most important demographic. i know the “growth” people call us nostalgic or purists. but the proof is in the numbers. i still dont understand how it makes sense to alienate the core to try to grow by 5 or 10 %. cool to see some things finally traction, but ultimately they will need to pull their heads out of their butts and fix the on track product. this is better, but still leaves a lot to be desired
Diehards stick with it, casuals jump from one thing to the next, and NASCAR should quit trying to attract them but keep the diehards from eventually feeling alienated.
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RUclips seriously needs to fix that shit. It's annoying af.
Then you had Phoenix Moving On 😂😂
NGL I kinda like the idea of the Daytona 500 being on President’s Day weekend and on Monday. ( put the pitchforks and the torches { be careful} down) 😂😂😂😂 without Speedweeks., IROC the Clash and all the practices., it might start making the 500 BIG again . Shouldn’t be any problems getting more views…… just gotta be some random RAW 😂😂😂👍👍👍
i miss my pookie Dale Jr. havent really watched since 2016
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That's driving people away if we are being honest.
I think one reason is that some of the stereotypes around nascar has been ignored and people just want to watch a good race.
I haven't bought Goodyear tires forever.
Nascar needs a super star still. Jr was the last super star, Johnson and Gordon held it down for a whilr with Jr. Obviously Earnhardt and Gordon in the late 90s. Not sure who could be that next-generation super star, Elliot is the most popular but he's not a household name like Jr, Gordon or Earnhardt.
Chase Elliott ftw. Will always watch for him Kyle Busch and Ryan Blaney too and the fox booth...watch the Xfinity and Trucks (cast and I like the rookies and up and comers and this year Rajah), Xfinity is just pure fun imo especially the driver personalities
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It’s been years we hear that Nascar isn’t that popular anymore, and the new generations are absolutely not interested in it !
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