Breaking News!!!!!!!!!

Reeeeeeeeeeealy big news around here!

Dale Jr. retires!

Film at 6.

 

Who?

 

Allot of people seen this coming. He really hasn't done much as of late

 

NASCAR is an awesome cure for insomnia. I keep a couple of races on the DVR for Sunday nap time.

 

As much as I love MotoGP, there's no denying that sound will lull you into nappy nap time. I usually have to watch it in two parts. The first part, then watch the last 5-7 laps again when I wake up. The sound is the perfect pitch to knock me out.

 

"Film at six"???....

 

He finally turned right.....

 

Maybe he's taking 99's seat.

 

After 2017 season

 

Sure as hell did, he had a following that's for sure.

 

He's retiring because of the loud generators and lack of tire warmers. Unlike some people he can't go fast on cold tires.

 

This seems to be becoming a problem for NASCAR. Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, and now THE Jr. Hell, even reach back and add Mark Martin to the list of top-tier drivers who retired well before they were too damn old to be competitive. I would add Michael Waltrip to the list, but he never really was competitive except on the two tracks where you just hold it to the floor and hang on. Even Derrike Cope and Bobby Hillin, Jr could win on those tracks. (Who? you ask... Exactly! I reply)

Looking at the stands for recent races, there are damn near as many empty seats as full ones.

Can they get back to the boom days of the late 90s and early oughts? How? Especially with the biggest names leaving well before they begin to embarrass themselves (looking at you, DW).

 

What has 10,000 Legs and 3 sets of teeth?











Front row at Talladega.....

 

NASCAR killed itself. Notice how they don't show the crowd anymore? It's because the lack of the crowd.

 

They've actually taken seats out at tracks, to make it seem more crowded.

 

The entire breaking a race into segments and rewarding points based on this is stoopid. You could actually win a race and leave that weekend but lose position in the standings based on segment points. Sorry, but that's not racing.
Don't get me started on the welfare corporate sponship dollars that have little to no ROI. But hey at least the CEOs and board members can get a company paid vacation at the expense of the shareholders and rub elbows with the other big wigs all under the guise of a business trip.

 

Ya'll laugh, but I've got a BIL in WV on 24 hour watch because of this news

 

Thus the "genius" of Bruton Smith.

He painted the seats many different colors so a fleeting TV view makes the empty seats look filled.

 

I watched regularly up until they started with the chase stuff... in my opinion, once they started messing with the points, chase, segments, ect... it became a joke. nascar didn't want racing, they wanted entertainment. well, they found out... their audience wanted racing, and it shows in the stands.

have a few one off goofy points races that are for purse money (ie: all star events). leave the season title based on real points, and wins accumulated over the course of a long season. that IS racing. Ski