If you REALLY feel that NASCAR has no future . . .

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I can sell you this one!

There's no real reason that I can see why NASCAR can't go back to stock bodied cars with todays safety mandates and have a car as safe as todays car. The 2 biggest improvements to safety over the years are the Hans device, and safer barrier walls that all tracks have implemented and that wouldn't and shouldn't change.

Lee...just how much longer do you think FOX and NBC will be able to afford to pay those kind of fees to NASCAR? Major sponsors WILL notice that the stands are more than half empty and also take a good hard look at TV ratings and find that no one is watching any more. Major companies who spend millions in advertising on weekly NASCAR events will find that it's no longer profitable to advertise during a NASCAR event and quit doing it. You know as well as I do the money doesn't come from the TV networks, it comes from sponsorship dollars, and when sponsorship of NASCAR events is no longer profitable, companies will quit doing it. You are right, the writing is on the wall, just not as you describe it bud!

In conjunction with my post above... keep in mind that the 2020 NASCAR season will be the first season since Winston was the title sponsor for the cup series, that the cup series will not have a single title sponsor. Monster Energy pulled out after only 3 or 4 years and have taken on a much smaller sponsorship role for the 2020 season. Why? Because it's not profitable! 4 individual companies have grouped together and have assumed that role. What does that tell you???

Actually the TV ratings for 2019 were the same as they were for 2018.

What NASCAR is doing currently is to reduce the cost of running a team. This will pay huge dividends by leveling out the playing field. The 2018 standardization of the Paoli Air Guns are a perfect example.

You just don't get it do you? Making the teams and the cars equal is what is killing the sport and the more they try to make things equal,the less interesting the racing actually is and the more viewers they will lose.the more viewers thy lose, the less likely companies will want to advertise their events. It's plain as the nose on your face, just look in the stands each week!

The next-gen car will enable manufacturers to design bodies that will better represent the production cars they are inspired by and will also allow for more tech transfer between the track and the street thanks to things like larger wheels with lower-profile tires.

Maybe just go back to running shine.

They know Randy, that's why they instruct camera operators to keep the shots as tight as possible to avoid grandstands, and why they paint the seats different colors so when they pan at speed it creates the illusion of a packed crowds. All tracks can't be Bristol, maybe in the end they will go back to being a regional sport. The big ad money is looking elsewhere these days. How many decades was R.J. Reynolds the series sponsor? How many title sponsors have they had since? The ratings are at historic lows..They are out of creative bullets,young people just aren't in to cars at the levels necessary to sustain interest like our gen is/was. JMHO

Just my opinion -- when Bill France let Toyota into NASCAR and Chrysler quit, that was the first nail in that coffin ...

I have not found anything official Chevy is getting out of Nascar? Can you post a copy where this states Chevy is leaving? Or are you assuming down the road Chevy might exit this racing series?

Burd....I don't mean to be rude but most of your posts I've read on this site have been unintelligent and irrelevant. This post was no different. Why don't you just refrain from posting at all until such a time when you actually have something intelligent and relevant to say.

Right on! I put up with it cause Toyota wasn't winning at first and to be honest I was enjoying it.Toyota and K.B.is making me lose interest big time.

I thought Burd’s comment was funny.


Jason

And historically significant .

Sorry, I don't remember where I got a wiff of that as I read many articles in a day (I'm retired). But I do remember seeing at least twice. As a follower of different modes of racing, the old saying was "win on Sunday - sell on Monday". Well we all know that isn't working anymore and GM dumped the Camaro/Firebird before for low sales. The other thing to think about is the new Corvette -- yes the 2020s are all sold but my point is for the cost of a high end Camaro just add about $15-20K and you can have a mid-engined screamer. Again -- JMHO

Seems like I read, or heard somewhere that NASCAR was going to a spec chassis very soon and that all race teams would be required to buy the spec chassis from the supplier, then hang their components on them.

Currently there is very little on these cars that is manufacturer related, the engine block, heck Toyota does not even build a V8 car, I think currently most engines that run in the cup series maybe even the xfinity also, are built by one of three engine shops.

NASCAR came from running shine. Maybe look at its history. Ya, you are being rude.

Here you go Green Mean-z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSW3WBoEkWc

This was given to me from, well, let’s not mention names, it’s from the south. You can her the engines roar if you put your ear to it. Lol.

2021 “Next Gen” will bring NASCAR’s first-ever independent rear suspension, sequential gearbox

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-vid...ear-suspension

I see it happening to the NHRA too. Bottom line in my opinion is not enough of the younger crowd is interested in NASCAR, NHRA or even muscle cars as we know them.

Agree i believe all of these you mentioned have peaked. The younger generation doesn't have the interest and money to support these. Its a sad change we are seeing.

I spoke to a collector, he’s selling his car collection off in the next few years, and keeping just a few. Thinking these are going to drop in value as time goes on, the younger generation isn’t into these cars. You like what you grew up with.
We used to get some nascar cars into our booths at the auto show, it’s just a shell with decals for everything. It change along time ago and I’m surprised it kept up.

Eh, eventually everything changes and things go away, but I've heard it too many times that we'll see the end of interest in brass era cars, hot rods, muscle cars, and cars in general. I think as long as man has the desire to move and to see new things, the love affair with the car will last. I do, however, acknowledge that it won't remain the same as it is now and changes will occur, but I don't think it will end. Everything, and I mean everything, is cyclical, and I think that kids/people are going to eventually get tired of sitting around looking at these stupid little screens and get out there and do stuff. Could be wrong, but that's OK, I was wrong once before.

Will John Force Racing still have Chevrolet as a sponsor moving fwd ???

My friends at Hancock & (Jeff) Lane Racing built the eCOPO (All Electric) Camaro
for GM as a advertising publicity tool. Lane and company are currently wanting to
sell the one off eCOPO.

I would love to see NASCAR go back to the era of stock bodied cars running the original engines, modified of course, just like the old days. Imagine the sound of screaming LS7's, Coyote's, and Hemi's battling it out. The cubic inch displacements would need to be adjusted to be fair but this would be entertaining. These non production, purpose built engines should not be allowed and racing the production engines would also help improve durability overall.

Paul