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That's true. I'm establishing a effn time line.

Well said.

Especially if the race teams and tracks NOT owned by the France family start up a new series to replace it.

@@polycube868 Nice point. Someone will start a different series.

Exactly. I don't miss it now. Have not watched in years.

@todmarks175 I'm honestly hoping the teams decide to not take any new deal NASCAR has, they've totally ruined the sport, and most of the big teams already have an Xfinity team and could just race those cars in a breakaway series...I'm just sick of seeing NASCAR and the France family destroy the only sport I've loved since I was a kid!

@@polycube868 I think you're right. I'm a life long race fan but the difference is I'm a dirt track fan. I used to like NASCAR, but they've taken all ingenuity and innovation out of it. The drivers they have now days are not the best drivers, just the drivers who can bring money to the team.

Amen ! ❤

If the fans can’t relate, then they will slowly leave. I believe NHRA is in a similar boat too. Street Outlaws blew up with something the average racer could try and participate in too. Even though they have a big following, the smaller venues are what helps keep them going as their cars get farther and farther away from the average racer. More and more younger people. And even middle aged and not interested in watching cars “drive in circles” for several hours like in the past. They need to figure something out and quick to get it going. Hopefully they did with the new TV deal.

​@@MikeFL2TX car culture has been in a downturn for years. Most millennials and zoomers don't even apply for drivers license and live in the suburbs... That's why motorsports is dying because very few people relate to driving or working on cars.

Totally agree.

@@T.N.D.88 exactly, they do not relate to it. I have four engines being done in my garage, but my kids have very little interest in it. They don’t mind if we go to the races, but don’t relate to it, so there’s little interest.

You can do that right now.

@@jeremyharper3462 there should be NO guaranteed spots. Earn it or lpad up and go home.

@hawkgeoff sure, but the 36 teams that do this week in and week out post faster speeds than the open cars like 98% of the time anyways. You're really just whining about a couple of times a year that an open car gets the short end of the sick at most, and they are usually unsponsored. That would have almost no effect on most race weekends at all so it's not even worth changing anything. There is no up side. On the other hand, having a guaranteed spot is important to attracting the sponsors. Before the charters, they still basically had guaranteed spots to the top 36 in points and then provusionals even. At your local short track, you can do whatever you want, but this is the big money top tier with real corporate sponsors on a globally watched platform.

Imagine if charters were a thing in the 70s, 80s, and 90s? No Earnhardt, Petty, Junior Johnson, Pearson, RCR, HMS, Roush, Penske. None of that would exist, now take that and put it towards today and imagine what we've lost cause of Charters, Dale Jr., and Jr Motorsport being the biggest. With that said, Nascar did say, "We're gonna change 75 years of history and tradition, and We're gonna do it." The days of build it and race it are long gone.

@@jeremyharper3462 if youre worried about a guaranteed spot youre not top tier. all this will do is benefit the big guys who can have a guaranteed spot for one of their affiliate r&d cars. If the goal was to make the racing more affordable and bring more people to the sport then i dont see where they are doing that with this. The goal should be to have 50 plus cars qualifying every sunday like we used to and let the chips fall where they may. talk about a guaranteed spot is just billionaires lobbying

Interesting, drivers have really always been eliminated after x amount of races they weren't in contention. The stages were a blessing lordy full races no wrecks subverting needed to be done heck I wish they'd chop it up more to keep things bunched up. 5 second leads are excusable now with the technology. If you don't like manufactured breaks watch f1... ugh that's a tough one to see 0 passing and just 0 excitement after 1st lap. Demo is 18 to 35 that's nascars intrest so we aren't in their target audience. Life keeps going we get older and grumpy and say it was better in our day.

Amen, I stopped watching the instant they started that crap! I still don't have a clue what they were thinking. I grew up on Nascar and don't think I will ever go back.

I like the playoff system, but the stage racing needs to go. They'll never listen to their fans though, and MJ is right. IDK about completely die off, but eventually the season will be cut nearly in half or even more. Indy car season is 17 races I think. That's plenty and Nascar needs to vastly shorten their season. February through November is ridiculous. No other sport is that long, not even baseball. Hard to hold interest with fans for 10 months.

It started before he officially took over! Brian is the reason they went to Southern California again in the late 90’s! He saw the fast return on profit but had zero vision of what the future would be!

It's what happens when nepotism puts a pill popper in the lead of the legacy, brand, market and franchise.

#gowokegobroke

Woke ...... if at first you don't succeed........blame the patriarchy.

Notice no one has had the balls to call Nascar & Bubba out for lying & promoting BLM. Nobody not Dale Jr, not Kenny Wallace....nobody!! Nascar is dead, its a joke.

Bubba had nothing to do with that

@@SpeedDemon88X Pleeeeeeease

The entire operation is filled with greedy pigs, Brian was just one of many.

Yes he know nothing

Exactly. We need 900 horsepower, sheetmetal bodies, tube chassis, 4 speed H pattern transmission, a solid rear axle and 10” wide tires.

This car was supposed to save money but like the COT it hasn’t.

@@GASparky217 and 5 lug wheels!!

remember when pit stops were actually exciting?

No reason why we can't just add Xfinity class and the other and the truck class all together? & Lets split it up in3 age groups? Like they do with the legend cars?

Supposedly Roger Penske is to blame for the the playoff format we have today. He complained about kenseth having a commanding points lead despite only having one win vs Ryan Newman only being 6th in points with a series leading 8 wins (Newman also had a bunch of DNFs that year)

Cookie cutter drivers too. Trips to the trailer took individualism out of drivers.

The Eagles owner once said the team was losing money. When they were forced to open the books during a Strike we found out the Owner was paying himself and family members BIG $$$ to do nothing so the TEAM would seem to be losing it. I'm sure the person who might be The World's Fattest Leukemia Survivor would never do anything illegal (not counting his Conviction/Pardon for Bribery).

And this is a lie. They’ve made money.

Hendrick Motorsports employs over 600 people. If they are not making a profit, it is because they don't want to make a profit.

​@@GrandpaSharkright. Then fire some people. Simple fix

Profit is what is left over and you've spent all the money you can to dodge taxes.

I might come back to stock car racing if the big teams are gone. Multi car teams ruin racing of any form.

If all the big teams drop it might go back to a more entertaining product

We used to be able to identify all the Drivers 5 seconds after seeing the cars. Rick Hendrick made the sport so $$$ that no single company can sponsor a team anymore. Everybody has a different paint job every week now.

@@davidburke9596 him & Penske

Bumper cars. Not even racing

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Correct you are

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No, they is not at all what happened. Many of the teams are just fine with the current deal, especially with the increased revenue that they will receive under the new TV contract. There are just a few of the teams (the ones who least need a helping hand) that are screaming for more.

They are still negotiating it. That is what this is about.

Well said!!

Why are you and all the other "I don't follow NASCAR any longer" on a NASCAR YT video?

"It took progress and innovation out of the teams hands." Same thing happened to Indycar... became a spec series... only more so with NASCAR. How can "stockcar" racing be called "stock" when everything about the car is purposely built to fit the series, and not the racing. Including the same shape... every car no matter what brand it is and the shape and the fact its a made-up shape is ridiculous. This is what I hatted about CART with Indycar and now NASCAR is becoming their own version of CART.

@@blackpacking101 Maybe they are trying to save their sport? NASCAR and it's apologist wring their hands over the sports obvious decline and how to fix it. The cause of the decline is plain to see if one wants to see it. Instead, the folks who point out the obvious are dismissed or ignored altogether. The reason these fans post is the squeakier and squeakier they are, maybe that wheel will get greased. until it is greased, the squeaking will continue.

@@charlesrussell6201 this isn't a NASCAR KZfaq channel. This is Kenny Wallace's KZfaq channel

Jordan did to basketball,what France did to NASCAR.

Let what you said sink in with MJ wanting the charter! The charter is one of many things that’s hurt the series! HMS was a team that made money before the charter system! RCR went from a small shop with hardly no employees when Richard drove to a top tier powerhouse with state of the art facilities by the time Dale won his 7th championship! Back in the 80’s-mid 2000’s Cup had different programs going to award money throughout the weekend & the race! You had money going to the top qualifying team! They used to have two rounds of qualifying, one on Friday & one on Saturday! The second day fastest got some money! I remember there was the goody’s headache award! The plasticoat award! The halfway award! The Gillette young guns award & many others! Even the crew chiefs had an award each race! The money from all these were split between the drivers/crew chiefs & team owners! Not only did the champion that year get millions but the team also won money for the championship as well! Then the other finishers got their share as they went down through the top 20! When nascar introduced the charter, I knew like millions of others that it would benefit only nascar itself! They control all funds now! The teams are going to have to do what was rumored & try their own thing! They were rumored to be setting up exhibition races at non nascar sanctioned tracks! They need to do that & get with Penske to form a stock car series through Indy car!

@@user-zq1px9yb7g Nothing they do in the future will work for me.Much like Government,it is not satisfied until it has TOTALLY control,then shortly destroys itself.

​@@user-zq1px9yb7gI agree with a lot of what you say. But I would steer clear of Penske since he is a business partner of the France family. The sport has gotten way too expensive, but the team owners played a part in that too.

He bought majority ownership for about $275mil, and sold it for $3bil just 13 years later. Tell us again how terrible he is at running a business?

Well said… A perspective i some how missed, but makes perfect sense.

They don’t see themselves as the product! If that was the case, then every nascar sanctioned event would be crap! The modified series is fantastic! The problem has been poor leadership! They think gimmicks will work! Steve Phelps is trying to be the stock car version of F1! The championship has been a gimmick since day one of this Chase/playoff crap! Stages are a gimmick! The clash has become a gimmick! Let’s not get started on the stupid car they run now! The product is the car, team & driver! You can have a top team like HMS but if you got drivers that can’t drive, then you have a bad product that no one will want to see or pull for!

Bingo

I think a HUGE problem is that neither the Drivers or Management have EVER Overpaid for Tix, Sat in traffic for hours , paid 3-nite minimums at hotels for 1 race, etc. If they had they wouldn't play Follow the Leader for 3 hours at many tracks. The Drivers feel no responsibility to Entertain. Tony Stewart said fans are Stupid for not enjoying a race where a superior car wins by 3/4 of a lap.

It is their ball and many of the games are played on their fields.

@@kevinhenry7273 I get that but I sure would like to hear what a court would have to say about the antitrust implications of this little monopoly they’ve got going on

It's not really a monopoly when we still have other forms of Motorsports available. IRL, F1, IMSA, etc.

The cars haven’t represented anything we drive in over 40 years. Please stop pretending like it’s suddenly an issue

@@stevencramsie9172 I haven't watched it in 23 years it's boring

​@wallyfronzaglio372 well that means ya still watched it when the racecars were far from factory stock. In fact, it's never been that. The entire point was to modify and purpose build a car for races, meaning it was never stock. Ever... That said this is clickbait as fk. NASCAR isn't dying anytime soon and is actually growing in popularity again. But sure listen to a dude who knows nothing about racing and just owns a team. Would ya listen to a team owner in the NFL or Baseball naysaying the sport? Doubtful, because it's always unfounded and misinformed. Keep not watching, millions of others are, and will continue to. Dying sport, ha!!! Amazing the nonsense haters will buy into...smfh

Well yeah but remember one thing you need to think about cost it is extremely too expensive Nascar has always made more money then the race teams the cost is out raiges multi teams are complaining that is probably why furniture row bailed out they were smart it is a shame that even the fans can hardly afford to go to a race today and now team owners are starting to feel the impact but Nascar has always run races out west and up north remember Riverside CA use to be the first race they would run before the Daytona 500 but closing a track down to give a cookie track a schedule is where some of the down fall began

Just like every other sport that got too big. Once you go "family friendly" you lose your edge, and then your base fan.

Especially this owner. His mother trained him well that “sport” is not about the sport, only the money.

I like the efi tuning idea.

I said the same thing about using the segments as heat races for the ‘feature’ race. Put a handful of cars out there for a given number of laps, and repeat. Do it right and maybe even able to throw in the trucks too so there is a little bit of time between the heats and the features with no dead time like local tracks do. Win win for sure I think.

I say put them all in the same class including ARCA?

Agreed, if the big teams don't sign a deal they can start a new series with Gen 6 cars or Xfinity, SMI HAS to side against NASCAR for it to work though.

You don’t like single nut wheels? Let me guess rotary phones are better and horse and buggy is still the best? 😂

I think Kenny prob knows a little bit more about it then MJ. Although I do see mJ's point of view though, but just because MJ says the sport will die doesn't mean anything. I don't care for charters but if that is what is needed for success for the future of the sport I'm all for it. MJ could be correct but I would side with Kenny more just because he has been in the sport a long time. Business wise I agree with MJ though. I guess time will tell.

I agree we all spend money for the addiction,? The adrenaline rush, it's a drug? The reason these car owners do it is to feel good that is the bottom line?

I totally agree with u🤘I used to be a diehard fan. Not any more I rooted for 3, 8, 29 car. I am 45 years old love since the mid 80’s. France Sr ran it better than his son. His son ran it to the ground…

I have one more comment when Dale senior died the number three should have been retired I am Northeast modified fan when Richie Evans died NASCAR retired the number 61 from modified tour why did they not retire the number three from the cup series because the spoiled brat got his way think about that

Corporate Robot Jimmie + Cheatin' Chad and the Biggest A-hole in Racing Kyle Busch rising to the Top finished it off.

I think losing Adam petty, Davey and Alan hurt too.

I think it’s more to do with breaking up long green flag runs. Fans use to complain not enough cautions and restarts.

Except the towns that NASCAR races in.

Truer words never said !!!

Every single bit of technology has improved dramatically in a short amount of time. EVs included. If you think electric cars are not going to get lighter, faster, charge quicker, and more practical? Then you’re naïve

@@stevencramsie9172 🤦🏼‍♂️

Rather than stop to charge, they would probably develop a quick-change battery system. In the long run, such a system could prove itself useful in the private sector.

Going to take a lot more emergency equipment for the potential EV crash fires.

There is 5000 short track drivers that have just as much talent including myself?

@@since1961 oh, so you could just step into a cup car and race at Daytona? Freaking please

My point is in order to raise team/driver cut of profits they might have to stand together in a boycott of some sorts. I don’t believe the track owners should be getting the bulk of revenue. (Just 1 man’s observation🤷‍♂️)

There would be a large group of people willing to try for a fraction these dudes are getting paid. Drivers are always replaceable as they always have. And better yet they'd actually wreck and make things more exciting.

Doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

⁠@@stevencramsie9172Doesn’t mean he’s right either!

I agree with this comment. I resent a guy coming in three years ago and telling everyone that they should change the sport or it will die. Pay your dues like most of the other owners before you open your mouth.

Name one thing that Bubba Wallace has done that other drivers haven’t done in the last 60 years in NASCAR. I mean, other than the color of his skin. Name one

@@stevencramsie9172 You must not watched the race(s) he put others in a bad way with his actions and he got off easy! Ask Kyle petty he will Tell you as well he should been banned for the year! Any why are you bringing up skin color?? Get real !

@@stevencramsie9172 he pretended a handle on a garage door was a noose, just to be able to play his race card. Who else did that?

​@@j29maniac the report stated the team found it. Not the driver or anything about the driver knowledge of it. Is it because he's a black guy or do you just like his personality? Have you met him at the track and he's actually total jerk?

​@@stevencramsie9172fox News hasn't told him what to think. He's just had an agenda and will run with it no matter what's its actually found.