Jimmy Megginson THANKYOU, WELL SAID!!!!

god no nascar sucked in the 90s

Jimmy Megginson you got it right... NASCAR left me... went from beer to wine of the west coast and champagne of the north east...

I hate the chase in a way I can't describe,it's not pure racing,a 10 race shootout.

Amen

The COT was an understandable necessity, but it also screwed up that most fundamental part of NASCAR - We are driving the car you can buy or already own. That breeds a crucial relationship and connection.

No it wasn't. Nascar had corrected all the problems in the car that caused the death of Dale Earnhardt, Adam Petty, etc... Now they could have made some changes to the chassis without changing the car and been fine. The COT just made Nascar way too damn aero sensitive.

You forgot about hotel prices I think my sister and her husband spent like a $1,000 for 3 nights for a Daytona July race back in 2007 or so. She was a big Rusty Wallace fan and he was a Mark Martin fan two of the best in my mind. 6 that's my number! lol

You can't race stock cars because they are death traps. That old argument is the most ridiculous thing ever. He just said NASCAR took off in the 90s. And they weren't stock cars in the 90s. They were race cars.

That's what happens when people get greedy vendors all wanna make a killing.

You hit it. Take away the aerodynamics of these cookie cutter race cars. Make them have to slow and accelerate out of the corners, not just keep their foot on the floor and get sucked to the track by aero. Went to Vegas last month and boring! 1 car could win and did. Make them race versions of street cars.

Jelsick If the racing was good, they wouldn't need erectile dysfunction ads ! Lol

oh yeah i forgot about the viagra car lol like they needed to advertise hahaha

EXACTLY! It was on at the sports bar one day... I really don't watch it anymore... and one of the cookie cutter cars sponsor was "The Delaware Highway Safety Association" car. I remember thinking... "Oh man, it's gotten even worse".

Yea that car of tomorrow ruined the sport and their bullshit chase

this year, i don't care much if i watch a race on television or not. i missed most of daytona, caught the last 30 laps, 'cause, i sat down to eat my supper in front of the tv. didn't even bother to watch this past weekends race, (who won???). i have no passion for it like i used to. before, i would get upset if i missed a race, wanting to know who won and what happened. now, it's like "uh, who cares". too, i am dirt poor. the only race i was ever able to go to was when my step son bought some cheap seats for my wife and i to see the daytona 500 at the last race of the old track, when the seats were still from turn two to turn three on the back stretch. we loved being there, that was cool, but, the cars just were not like the local tracks or the race cars of the 70's and 80's, when they were still real race cars, not the hyped up hollywood crap it is today. heck, as humpy said, they priced nascar right out of the real fans hands and desires. i couldn't afford to go to a race unless somebody else pays for it and the cost of travel. luckily, when i did see the only nascar race i probably will ever see, my step son gave us money for gas and food ,but i lived across the state, so i could drive it both ways on the day of the race without issues or stopping to spend the night. most of those that still attend the races are the well to do and celebrities. that's about all of the people left that can afford it. i was a darrell waltrip fan for a long time. i watched him race at the nashville speedway way back before the wide world of sports, speaking of which, is where i first saw a nascar race on wide world of sports, my dad and i sat and watched. then, i changed over to junior when darrell retired. now, there just ain't no one that catches my attention, the closest might be the young kid joey logano. gordon and jimmie just never struck my fancy, too much pretty boy hollywood types, afraid to get a scratch or something. bring back the good ol' boys, let 'em fight, if need be, rub some fenders, run what ya brung, but, run real cars. todays drivers would crap their pants if they tried to drive yesterdays cars at 200 mph, bill elliot and richard petty and darrell waltrip and dale sr. and coo coo marlin and all of the rest drove in real cars that fast, without crapping themselves, actually, sometimes faster, than they are today. yeah, nascar sucks nowadays.

randy tomlinson when Bill Elliott said he needed to adjust loose condition out of his Thunderbird at Talladega and he could have hit 215, but the cars are still more stable at 210 than at 190, that said they should have let the speeds be. It brought out the common sense of the drivers and to handle a loose car at 212 showed he had the gonads. Some of today's driver's could make a bathtub competitive, but most are corporate superstars.

I don't really understand the limiting of speed. That's where the rub is. You eventually have cookie cutter cars, drivers hired by corporations, and cookie cutter racetracks. THAT'S what IROC was about. Observing racing skills, as opposed to all out speed. Build bigger tracks with greater banking if necessary, but enough with the restricter plates, and spoiler checks, etc.

Mustang Guru... you are spot on sir. I hate that racing has become so generic, that there is little to no room left for true owner, mechanic, and tuner innovation. The cars likely have zero stock parts, and are v6 front wheel drives in the show room. Stock cars! HA!!!!!!

Right n NASCRAP has too much influence as in what every manufacturer should have on it from tires to shocks cubic engines deck lids spoilers hoods which totally take the original cars stock looks away......todays cars are nothing but glorified go-karts along with the drivers younger and younger and younger and not one of them ever been under a hood or under a car in all their rich SPOIL lives....😠😡😠😡

southernfried, the 70's and 80's were even better. find some cd's with that era on it, you'll be surprised.

tv money is and has been the reason it has not changed yet! Empty seats just look bad but do not hurt nascar financially.

So true i was just thinking the same thing.

1985 - 2000 era is when i attended all my nascar races , never been back since sr died. those were good times. like humpy said, rivalry's and passing and real racing. today's races are unwatchable.

Almost 6 years now.

Kenneth Mixson VERY well said.

not just southerners loved nascar and left

NASCAR taking the Southern 500 from Darlington and running it at the boring Auto Club for a few years was one of the worst things they've ever done

southerners werent going to races. they still dont

In the 90's if you were a northerner like me, you had to listen real close to what the drivers were saying to understand them, (remember Sterling Marlin?) and THAT was the charm of NASCAR. Today the only way you can get to this level is having a rich daddy.

Exactly. Here, out west on the Pacific Coast in the (mid 90's) we had a heat wave and the track (which I generally sat on the starting line) had a temp of 134. A local water company, "Calistoga" pulled up behind the stands in a delivery truck opened the roll-up door and started handing out bottled water and ice. That lasted a short ten minutes. The new corporate NHRA shut them down. 10 minutes later a golf cart of dockers (young corporate's) pulled up (on the starting line) with a "case" of said bottled water then punched holes in the bottoms and held therm over their heads. I remember the temp 'cause John Force took the starting line mike and told us and thanked us the "fans" for staying for the show. Before my very eyes. Around the water incident "track sodas"went from $2 to $3. That was the beginning of the end my yearly pilgrimage to the "Track's". My first Drag Race was as a kid in 1958. I stopped going 15 years ago. What's missing, to me, is the "we are all family and treat one another as such". Unless you and yours have a habit of screwing you out of it.

Exactly, this is what happens when the wrong people get a hold of something.

03waggs The sad truth is it's not only NASCAR it's the whole United States.

And Toyota

Damn, that Humpy clown could either use some diction lessons or a much better microphone to speak into, unintelligible hick-ism.

pizzafrenzyman They dont do that anymore and haven't in What, a decade nearly? And it certainly wasnt about corporations

Dave Hurst and one more thing! Everyone refers to the cars by # not drivers name .formula one NEVER mention the car # .I know most all F1 drivers but none of the car # oh oh Alonso is #14😎🏎🏎

Do you have any idea how unsafe it would be to run old cars like that? The reason the racecars look the way they do today is to ensure the drivers safety. Go watch some demo derby if you just wanna see people get hurt and killed.

you can't race a stupid front wheel drive car anyway

No. The 90s were the best and none of those were stock cars.

Keith Risk I was a big Dale Sr fan too and I miss him but I moved on to root for Dale Jr

I said the same thing when Joe Weatherly died, then again when Fireball Roberts died. The race goes on.

Exactly, I gave up on sports years ago for the same reasons.

What professional sport doesn't flees you?

but every sport that allows fan to attend are like that

And how is that different from any other professional sporting event? It's NASCAR's fault that tracks charge a lot for food? NASCAR doesn't own the tracks they have no say in the matter. It's called supply and demand. You're just the same as every other "fan" who has nothing but negative things to say about the sport. But one must beg the question...if you're so disappointed and let down by NASCAR then why are you on a KZfaq video about NASCAR leaving comments? Puzzling.

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What's wrong with NASCAR? Assholes like Humpy Wheeler, who had to repave Charlotte, Kansas, and Darlington just when they were getting good. Drivers told you not too......................But you did it anyway, right Humpy? I'll NEVER attend another ASSCAR race.

Restrictor plates was when I quit watching nascar. That was the end of racing

Now it's a soap opera who's got in a fight this week. Who lost a sponsor bring back real racing. I miss Richard and Buddy trading paint going down the stretch at 160 mph. Now they spin each other out or bump em into the wall. Hell, why not quit nascar and go back to round tracks. NASCAR is supposed to stand for racing, not like bumper cars at the county fair

I wouldn't mind the stage racing if they didn't throw a yellow at the end of it. Awarding points after a set amount of laps is interesting, but the extra cautions ruin it.

Humpy and him parted ways along time ago.

James Braun that doesn't mean they dont respect each other. I was just trying to use some candor with a man who frankly has had a lot of power in the racing world for many years. you dont go spouting off to someone you've A. Never met and B.have respect for...

300 mile and 500 mile races are just way way too long. Those cars are not racing all those laps and miles they are just following each other around until the last 50 miles and then they start worrying about how to wreck the guys in front of them and hopefully end up in the lead on the last lap. As far as I'm concerned they could cut all the races down To 50 or 75 laps. Then the guys wouldn't be able to sand bag they'd have to show exactly what they have for a power and handling and the driver would have to exhibit more skill.

that's so true. has anyone ever seen a 1969 toyota corolla restored or have they ever bothered to restore one? not in this country.

lol Camrys are made in USA LOL

jeff Young I know i was commenting to douglas saying they are built in america i like toyota racing ass face fuck. Its built in america. Calm the fuck down fuck tard So jokes on you........ASSWIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heck, most of the other manufactuers are made in Canada and Mexico as well. Are we saying that FORD isn't AMERICAN anymore too.

Douglas Smith I actually feel sorry for you. Ignorance due to no fault of your own.

Sorry hit the wrong button stock again.

You cannot have season tickets when the show moves to a new city every weekend. And season tickets are almost entirely purchased and owned by scalpers and resellers for the popular NFL and MLB teams. They just need to lower prices until they reach the point where they are selling out every single show. Lower the prices of entry and prices of food and drinks.

no extra points for any thing. first, get 40 points, last, get 1 point. cut the stage crap, cut the cautions for flat tires or a scrape of the wall, cut the green and white checkers, cut the back stretch line of no restart or make it with at least 3 to 5 laps so they can get back up to speed, race back to the flag on cautions, especially, the last lap. if you ain't got the guts to do it, you don't belong in nascar.

With every track doing it this way , you could still have your 36 race schedule but in a more exciting condensed form and all the weather would be good besides occasional rain. Bristol would still be 8th date on calendar for example but would be race #15 and #16. Since it's starting in April at Daytona this would give Bristol a June date and start it at 5 pm that way first race of the twin 250 is run in daytime ( just like Spring) and the 2nd twin is run under lights ( just like August. Martinsville moves to end of May ( no more snow and cold rain race days. Atlanta is in April ( no more freezing to death there). Season runs 36 races on a total of 18 weekends between beginning of April and mid September. Darlington could still keep there labor day date but this would now make throwback weekend pivotal in championship as it would be one of last 5 or 6 races.

There are 24 -25 weekends between beginning of April and mid September so the 18 race weekend schedule would give teams a weekend off for recovery and family time every 5 weeks roughly. Plus it allows 6 to 7 built in rain dates that are open on calendar. And when it ends in September..guess what , NASCAR doesn't have to compete with NFL for ratings or world series baseball. It has it's own schedule. And with 5 or 6 months off between September and end of March, then the itch to watch becomes stronger because fans will miss it more. Also having 18 race dates puts a premium on value of a ticket because fans will know that missing in the spring to go in Fall isn't an option. Puts asses back in seats because the ticket for an event will be at a premium to actually go.

They used to run 50-60 races a year and sometimes run 3 races a week.

best seasons 2000-2016 huh? that's when all this shit started as well as Dale died in 2001 bone head

Nascars best years is from 1988 to 2002 for me

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no, keep the 500 and 600. just get rid of the gas and breather breaks they get now in this stupid phase racing. keep points simple will keep the fans. no extras for leading laps or passing or the most laps, etc... if you finish first of 40 cars, you get 40 points, last and you get 1 point, even if you crash out. simple, tighter points if that's the way it has to be. the guy in the back and the middle has a chance of winning or finishing better that way. too many extra points puts some to far ahead for others to catch up. the original point of 500 and 600 miles or laps was to see how well the manufactured cars could hold out, can they go that extra bit on a stock engine, but, the problem today is, not a single car, truck or whatever connected to nascar has or uses a manufactured part of it's supposed maker. there is no toyota part, ford part, chevy part, dodge part. drop toyota, it's not american, bring back pontiac and buick and oldsmobile and mercury and the rest of american cars. nascar is supposed to be an american sport, not an international sport like indy and f- series. the way it is now, you might as well put some english, italian and french cars on the track. kill american automobile manufacturing some more. soon, there won't be a ford or a chevy made, ever.

Terry A. Walters and road course racing! Don't know if you saw it years back, but xfinity? Race in Montreal in the rain on rain tires was awesome!! Imagine how it would be if cup cars ran at road Atlanta in the rain!!!!

That was one of my favorite tracks. I can't believe the shape it's in now. Sad.

Tom Pistone Tom Pistone knows as well. He’s a helluva guy