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posted ago by BirchTBarlow +18 / -0

They ignored their core fan base trying to get a bigger profile. They moved races from the traditional tracks they'd raced at for years to bigger, newer tracks in new markets. They changed all the cars to look and race the same. They fiddled with the points system, adding stages to races and creating a gimmicky "playoff" at the end of the season. They've lost 50 percent of their viewers from the peak in 2005 (https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/325850).

Now they think appealing to the woke crowd will win new fans. Good luck with that.

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1600NWMagaAveWASHDC 4 points ago +4 / -0

Woke people will never tune in to nascar

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Tryhardneckbeard 4 points ago +4 / -0

The same people that hate burning Carbon? Ya RIP NASCAR and the idiots who started this bullshit in Marketing.

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Baryonic 1 point ago +1 / -0

What the fuck were these people thinking marketing auto racing to weirdos on Twitter than think the Green New Deal was a good idea?

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BirchTBarlow [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

They've had some kind of carbon offset program that tries to make them look better to environmentalists. Nothing they do will ever make those people happy though.

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eyerighteye 1 point ago +1 / -0

They give less than two shits about their old base. They want to ditch American ovals and go international road racing. It's a globalist sport now.

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glasseye 1 point ago +1 / -0

"Get woke go broke."

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Cavemantrump 1 point ago +1 / -0

10million Up Vote.☝🥊🇺🇸🥊

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Baryonic 1 point ago +1 / -0

These morons are listening to college kids that have never watched a single NASCAR race and think the concept of racing is stupid. They come up with bad marketing ideas that they put in front of people who are unemployed and lacking in anything productive to do - and they assume these people are a typical sample audience for NASCAR fans.

But do they ask NASCAR fans? No. Of course not. Those people are Nazis that probably voted for Trump.

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MrMcGreenGenes 1 point ago +1 / -0

My landlord is a mechanic who used to work the NASCAR West coast circuit. Know what he has to say? FUCK NASCAR!

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eyerighteye 2 points ago +2 / -0

Former Busch North crew guy and scca chassis builder here, fuck NASCAR to the mooooon.

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dookiebot 1 point ago +1 / -0

And I am ready for it to die now.

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Tx50bmg 0 points ago +1 / -1

Zero interest in NA”S”CAR and their cars that have nothing in common with the “stock” cars off of which they’re supposedly based. The use of caution flags for phantom “debris” in an effort to make it more exciting certainly didn’t help grow their audience.

I honestly don’t know what their end-game was with this “wokeness,” but it will only further shrink their fanbase.

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