Why do you think NASCAR attendance is up?

Hear me out. The bad coverage by Fox and missing a lot of the action are bringing people to the track.

I’ve noticed this especially at the tracks that have 1 race date, maybe the 1 race date thing truly does make sense

I was even impressed, I haven't seen NASCAR stands so full since the golden years of the 2000s.

I think the F1 series on Netflix helped people get into motorsports in general. Prior to that show, I didn't watch any motorsports. I started watching F1 in 2021 and loved it. After 2 seasons of Max winning everything, I became bored and decided to watch the 2023 Daytona 500 and became a huge NASCAR fan since. I watch trucks, xfinity, cup and attend the local track here in Monroe, WA that runs late models too. I'm sure others have had a similar experience. I fell in love with the history and spent a few months catching up and find your channel and Eric Estepp. Planning on getting out to the Daytona 500 2025

As someone at that Dover Race on Sunday, that traffic definitely felt like a large crowd 😂

I was at pocono double a couple years back and it was I would say 50/70% full. Went to Dover this past Sunday and I feel it was damn near 100% capacity

I have never understood how you can leave the sport all together when your driver retires

Speaking of missing what we had...... can we get 24 hour walmart back?????

Return to Chicagoland! You’ll get Insane Attendance I’d think since Most People Want It to come back! 😁👍

I went to the Dover race this year and I was shocked how many people were in the stands

I was at Pocono last summer, the attendance was crazy and there was so many first-time watchers and fans

As someone who normally goes to race tracks that have struggled with attendance in the past, the 1 race a year strategy so far has worked tremendously. Hopefully some other tracks that have 2 dates will soon follow suit. I think having more variety in the schedule and bringing the sport into untapped markets will pay off in the long-term, they first, however, have to improve the racing product.

I was at Dover this past Sunday and yes stands were packed. Years ago though, they removed 1/3 of the seats! We also got a race taken away from us. Just one in the spring now. Still enjoyed the race but wow it was warm! 🥵

on track attendance is up because the tv produced programing is nearly unwatchable at this point. if you're within 4-6 hrs drive of a track get yourself a ticket! save yourself from the commercial 400 at wherever you are

I went to Dover this weekend with my gf & we had a blast! Biggest take aways were being able to see the whole track (see all the position changes) & no commercials.

More tracks should have 1 date. Helps with schedule diversity.

I lost interest once Jeff Gordon retired. Then a local farmer down the street from me in Alva, FL Ross Chastain got a opportunity in some better equipment and starting competing against the Hendrick and Gibbs guy and does not back down one bit when all of NASCAR is against him. Gives it all for his team look what he did when he rode the Wall at Martinsville to get in the Championship 4. Who else going to do that besides maybe the late great Dale Earnhardt! He’s made things way more exciting with his talent and aggressive driving when most of the drivers just want to be buddy buddy on and off the track.

The sport is healing…. Plus, after Harvick retired, I jumped on the Buescher train. Dude is humble consistent driver. Also, I think Covid helped NASCAR. NASCAR isn’t a c*nt about people uploading their races, and they’re recommending them to anyone who watches Motorsports or has a interest. I think that sparked people’s love and interest back into the sport. IRacing also has a impact of people wanting to come back. Covid had people buy sim racing equipment.

i started watching in that low attendance+rating time in 2017-18-19 so it’s pretty cool seeing it grow to what it was a few years ago

The Netflix documentary really helped I think. And the racing for the most part has been banger this season. Also I feel you don’t go broke attending a race. You are still allowed to bring your own beverages and food (long as it’s in a compatible cooler) in the track. I can tell you as a Braves fan you will go broke at Truist park attending a Braves game with ridiculous prices on stuff

The Xfinity series I've noticed has been getting better and better races as of late. Wouldn't be surprised if that's bringing people back to the Cup series.

To this day I have not had Covid yet

I am not a racing “purist”, I watch on Saturday and Sunday for the entertainment. I was part of the interest bloom in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, I was also one of the people who disappeared early in that decade. It stopped being entertaining, it was just too predictive, how many times can you watch the same few people win week in and week out. Don’t misunderstand me, I respect that these drivers and teams work incredibly hard to dominate the sport, but that doesn’t make it “entertaining”. I tune in to be entertained on Sundays, and the race in Texas was entertaining, despite yet another Henrick car win. NASCAR is supposed to be thrilling, exciting, it is supposed to be drivers barely hanging on to their cars while racing on the edge, and yes, the bumping, banging and spectacular crashes are part of what I’m here for. Hendricks and Gibbs are extremely successful organizations, but they are boring as hell, and that is by design, I don’t follow a sport for “boring as hell”. If NASCAR wants the ratings bubble it once had, they need to give us more Texas Speedway type weeks and less Martinsville weeks.

I was a casual fan I went to my first race last year at the roval and my second race at Dover this past Sunday. I’m hooked I know lots of things are different but it’s so much fun being there hearing the cars, hanging out ,camping and all the other stuff at the track I love it

I had such a grin on my face in Dover this past weekend. Reminded me of the mid 2000's when I was a kid just getting into Nascar. Energy was amazing. Still not even half what it actually was in the mid 2000's but I hope we can keep this up.

As someone from the northeast - Dover and Pocono being one date made a huge difference. The energy at the single dates have been EPIC and they have been packed!

I was at the race this weekend. That’s the first time I’ve seen Dover packed like that in a very very long time. It was very hot down there, and a huge portion of the crowd was in the shade under the stands or walking around outside of the track.

I was at Dover. It sure was pretty crowded. I would say 80-90% full

Listening to the DBC podcast and Actions detrimental podcast gets me excited to go to more and more races. I never went to Martinsville before and I went, same with Dover. I live 15 mins from pocono so I go there every year on Sunday since I race on Saturday.

I'm a newer fan 2019, i learn so much listening to u Thx

This pumps me up. I’ve been watching for a few years and have never seen stands like this. I’ll get to attend my first race at gateway in the next couple months and couldn’t be more excited

I was at Michigan last year. I was able to pick whatever seat I wanted when I was in.

I think a huge asset to nascar is the xfinity series. My brother and I always watch them live while he doesn’t really care about the cup races. It really connects to the younger audience who want interesting personalities and old school stock cars

I'd say it's partly due to tracks, promoters etc have turned a day at the races into a carnival/festival environment. When I went to the 600 last year, it felt like more casual fans were there than in years past. I'd say some people aren't necessarily NASCAR fans, but just like to party, and any party will do.

I believe the slump started when the cars started becoming a decal package. Now more people prefer middle of the road, cookie cutter cars. Just look in a parking lot. Black, white and silver. Go to the handy corporate race car store, drop your cash and pick your wrap package ooh, don't forget your receipt. Cars out of the race cause they bump something, c'mon. People are coming back to watch because they know, soon, there'll be nothing to see.

As a black nascar fan jeff retiring hurt but what really hurt is I latched onto Chase and Larson then Larson did what he did and I've been in limbo and just supporting the other 3 hendrick drivers. Got to see the 24 win in person at martinsville this year so I'm back.

I went to my first race last year at Talledega. Seeing a race in person is such a different experience and now I’m a huge fan and will be attending at least 2 races a year.

Well...as far as Sunday....the weather was gorgeous. Perfect day to see a race. I would have gone if I didn't have a concert to play in Maryland.

Viewership has been up at all but just 3 races so far this year and a couple have had more than 2022. That’s a great sign!

I noticed this too this weekend while watching on tv I was like dam the fans are packed in!!!

I was at Dover this past April was packed. Reminded me of 2017 when i went. Vibes were up. Awesome time. Crowd was energetic. Put a smile on my face 😁

Dover has removed an insane amount of seats, plus only getting one race helps.

Having one race date for a track definitely is helping filling the stands. I was at Pocono last year and haven’t seen the stands and campgrounds that full since I started going in the early 2000’s. As much as I hate my local tracks like Pocono and Dover no longer having 2 dates, reality is most tracks should just have 1 date. Then go to new markets and bring in more fans. That will only help the sport grow

Wanna see growth? Get rid of staging. It's not a 400mi race. It's 3 races over 400mi.

I'm a cynic, but what I have seen is a number of tracks removing seats (including the Daytona Super-Stretch). But it's a robust economy! Thanks, Joe Biden!

Might be going to Michigan with a friend, I never went to a Nascar race there but the very last Indycar one which I was too young to remember in 2007. I have always been a fan of Stock Car racing as a whole and the past 2-4 years have been going to my local Dirt Track every other weekend with the same friend. The reason I never went to MIS or even Indianapolis was because of how expensive the tickets got when I was a kid, so instead went to Butler/Angola Motor Speedway growing up. Eventhough the ontrack/"playoff" product can be better, I'm 20 and seeing that I could actually go to a race like I've always wanted to just to experience what it's like finally can happen. I think there are others with the same statement as me and that's why I think Nascar's attendance is going up.

Nobody wants to admit that the new car is creating exciting racing. Smaller teams are winning races (Trackhouse for example). And it’s helped the mighty American small block gain recognition globally again (Shane Van, Garage 56), as well as making those mid-sized ovals interesting again thanks to independent suspension, and the 6 speed gearbox meaning shifting comes into play

Like I said in an earlier video: NextGen truly is NextGen. Ever since it hit the pavement in LA 2 years ago, it attracted people from all over the country looking to see how they would race at a stadium. Then the Auto Club race received universal acclaim due to the car putting on competitive racing. They kept on with that momentum with subsequent races with similar results (Kansas, Charlotte, Talladega, etc). It was also no coincidence that it also rolled out before the 75th anniversary of NASCAR. They pulled all the stops to commemorate the occassion. The Clash provided strong entertainment for the casuals, most of the tracks were sellouts due to how historic or prestige the moment was (Auto Club's last race, which was also the 25th anniversary of the track, Chicago Street Course, North Wilkesboro returning after 28 years, among other things). Also, the appearance of a "car that only turns left" at Le Mans rose the stakes even higher, so high to the point F1 failed miserably at the Vegas street race and tried to start $#!+ with NASCAR for its failure to surpass Chicago. Now Iowa is gonna be added to the list (instead of Rockingham), The Brickyard is back to its rightful layout, and the close finishes against nature and time make the news (sort of). That being said, if they play their cards right, it can only go higher Edit: Also because I hate the Fox half of the schedule for how CRINGE it is I started to go to races more often

Motorsports in general is having an attendance bump. F1 has 300 to 400k over 3 days during their 3 race weekends in the US (why people pay that much, I don't know, F1 is expensive). Indycar despite it's struggles in the TV ratings is just smashing out these 10 and 20 year highs in person attendance at it's road and street courses + Indy 500 ticket sales are on pace with the 100th year anniversary year numbers (attendance is still a question at other ovals). IMSA events have been absolutely packed, I think Sebring and the Rolex 24 had attendance records.

The Reason Why NASCAR's Attendance Is Up Because Fans At Home Are Sick And Tired Of How Bad FOX's NASCAR Coverage Is Right Now And They Wanted To See The Entire Race In Person Like Me.

We are starting to see good crowds at NASCAR tracks again. Not selling out but more people at the tracks!!!

It's so funny that for YEARS the number in the center of the door was normal and now just a few years later it looks so weird.

I went to Nashville last year, not expecting a whole lot. It was like watching an old 90’s clip from the hay day but in real life. It was hard watching blaney hit the wall but awesome watching Chastain try to out race Denny and Martin. Phenominal night. PLUS i got out in less than 2 hours. Which is way more than Bristol could say. That was the worst Bristol night race I’ve been to.

Well, to be fair, the attendance at the race tracks still had a large amount in the 2010s and in the decade we're in now. Mostly for the Cup Series races. But the Xfinity Series events had good attendance as well. Imo, this is more than proof that Nascar is still a really cool sport

Dover this weekend was almost at capacity but it was also the first year of good weather in almost 5 years

I think when a lot of the drivers like Gordon, Stewart, Carl Edwards, and Dale Jr retired, that’s when a lot of old fans went away from the sport. Now with the new influx of drivers, you have new fans and more fans coming to the track more. Plus NASCAR branching out into new markets like LA and Chicago has a lot of new fans coming in as well.

i recently got into NASCAR! in the past few months. for me, a lot of people in my online niche were talking about formula 1 (or maybe i just noticed it recently), so i started looking into yt videos on it and found the f1 vs nascar vs indycar discourse. the overall culture around nascar (and indycar) is just a lot funner imo and maybe messier which i enjoy, plus i started getting ads that apparently there's a cup series race near where i go to college which i had 0 idea about.

Perhaps the 1 race strategy is the way forward for most tracks. It'll allow for NASCAR to go to more places while driving up demand at tracks that struggle with 2 dates.

Motorsports as a whole seems to be getting more viewers. This past weekend, Indycar at Barber had a decrease in tv viewership but the largest crowd at the race since they started going there. I think more fans are getting into racing as a whole and that is AWESOME!

I went to Dover on Sunday for the first time since 2018. It was absolutely packed.

I have been to every single Coca Cola 600 since 2011 I’m just east of concord, NC and I can promise you that the fans show up for that one

Give each track 1 race only per season and attendance will be up everywhere!

So Fox showed bowling instead of Dover.

Honestly ive slowly started coming back, but im still disappointed at the lack of horsepower compared to years in the past. I think nostalgia is some of it for me. Its nice to see a variety of tracks, i think NASCAR was lacking in personality for a while. Boring drivers, slower cars, the same tracks with the same finishes. Those things are slowly changing. I hope horsepower does a little too.

Due to the momentum of the internet, I along with millions of others are now following on a daily basis to keep us informed on what's going on when we eventually do come 2 tracks

I was at Dover on Sunday and it was a great experience (until Hamlin won). The cars were going so fast around the Monster Mile that it made my head spin

It did seem like there were a lot of popular drivers that all suddenly retired in just a couple years. Jeff Gordon in 2015, Jr, Biffle and Stewart in 2016, Kenseth and Johnson after 2020, Kurt suddenly after 2022. It all felt like so many just one after another from 2015 until now and they were all the biggest drivers of the 2000s so there was a huge drop in fans that stopped watching cause their favorite drivers left

I was at Michigan both days and it was my first race. It was very fun

If we fix the car on road courses and short tracks, I think NASCAR’s gonna be on a very solid upward trajectory

There are several tracks that struggle with attendance for various reasons. If you look at the 2021 fall Richmond race it was at 90% capacity but starting with day racing and the continuing shitty ontrack attendance has dropped off a cliff. It's really unfortunate and this is one of those markets where NASCAR needs to address. Las Vegas is another market that blows my mind. The crowd's there do not look good on TV. As good as the racing is at Kansas, they're not getting close to selling out either. New Hampshire and Sonoma also struggle. I think those tracks also struggle to put on good racing with the Gen 7 car. Something else? Todd people like to dog on is the Charlotte roval. That race still gets more people than the last two fall oval races. That's how far that race fell. The 2022 crowd was their largest crowd crowd for that event. Even after listing off the places that are struggling, NASCAR is in a good spot and I do believe things will even turn around for those tracks eventually. I think NASCAR will get this new gen 7 car figured out

Daytona needs to bring back the backstretch seating again. It doesn't have to be huge. Just built a medium sized section of grandstands back there, and I promise they would sell out every year for both races.

I'll say. I'm a fraction of the reason. I was named after Petty and my only memories of Nascar was my dad watching every sunday as a kid. As an adult i started watching because everything else i like has been ruined by wokeness. I like that it still feels like america, I enjoy the national anthem. I like the sound of gas powered machines. I needed that like therapy right now.

The current car and package isn’t perfect, but the racing is better than where it was precovid. As someone who tried to maintain interest after Jeff Gordon retired, it wasn’t until this current Gen car that I started enjoying NASCAR again. There have been some positive changes and I hope they continue stringing good decisions/changes to bring this great sport back to its heyday

It all comes down to five reasons. 1. Interest in NASCAR picking back up again 2. NASCAR cutting races for most tracks from two to one 3. NASCAR expanding into new areas 4. A new young generation 5. The willingness to give NASCAR a second chance

COVID got some lapsed fans back. I'm one of them.

I like the diversity of tracks, which is why I have no problem with road/street courses and flat/short tracks. The cookie cutter mile and a half speedways shouldn’t have two dates. Spread the wealth around. Only tracks that should have two dates are Daytona, Talledega, Charlotte, Bristol, Martinsville and Darlington. Spread the rest out and don’t be afraid to try other street races.

You need to take a broader look at it. In person attendance is up for racing across the board. IndyCar has had horrible tv ratings this year but great attendance numbers. Every IMSA race has record attendance. And so forth.

I wish they would put some of these extra seats removed from other tracks temporarily at Iowa because I failed to buy tix before it sold out

i was at dover it was packed but it was hot as hell track didn’t expect it turned into a crap shoot lots of people git heat stroke and they ran out of water also a accident happened after the race took them an hour to reroute people in the parking lot to get around it

I think Nascar needs to expand to 40 races, with perhaps back to back races being a thing. Double Pocono, Double Dover or Double New Hampshire. Bring back man vs machine and make drivers have to make their equipment last.

I was at Loudon back in 2022 and it felt like it was pretty close to a sellout.

I believe that attendance is back up because the racing has gotten better over time, especially at the intermediates and super speedways. What's not to like at many of those tracks? Another reason would probably be that some tracks are going to one date only, making it more of a major event when the series comes to their town. The next job is to have a booming Market that brings us back to what could a Renaissance era, meaning that it's not quite as big as it was in the early 2000s, but it's very close.

I love it... But I feel like we are in another bubble. The Netflix series has helped but this car is still a major struggle, and with the behind the scenes feud with the charter's will cause another dip

Wanna know why attendance is really up? Nick Saban retired at the end of last football season. The NASCAR attendance drop was really evident back in 2007, right? When did Nick Saban start coaching at Alabama again? See what I mean?

It’s probably a placebo, but I feel like the more packed a race is the better it is. Pocono last year is a good example. Racing wasn’t anything amazing but the atmosphere made the race feel prestigious (that plus the drama at the finish).

Thought it's just the design of the tracks and a unique challenge to having so much seating around tracks, even 100k people in one spot for 3 hours isn't an easy feat for most things, and to do it for like 30 weeks in a year?! (Including blistering heat and humidity days, 40F days, rain delay days) Incredible. Also the population growth factor and millennials coming of age (30 - 45 year olds) and the elder gen z coming of age, would be impressed if they had age stats to show if the NASCAR crowd is skewing younger. Been to Indy multiple years, great...except for parking, and parking in folks yards etc, and the general use bathrooms...

I go to Dover now since Pocono lost its 2nd date. Kind of forced me to go to other tracks. Which isn't a bad thing.

If Daytona put in another 50k seats I guarantee they would be sold out in current NASCAR they could put people 170k in seats and still have another 50k at the track camping and tailgating outside

Not having Brian France around helped, as did COVID making everyone appreciate what they had. Also, some of the old Gordon, Stewart, Earnhardt Jr. fans either coming back or being replaced with new fans has played a factor. If they can only get rid of the points system. Make a season long points system where the winning means more than it did in the Winston Cup days would help. People understand legitimacy. The current system doesn't have that... Remember how we were all super excited when Ryan Blaney won in 2023? Me neither! Everyone just said... Oh, that sucks... On to 2024.

Call me a pessimist, but I think some part of it is the one race date, and the other is that racing is becoming/has become the “in-thing” right now. Other than getting in and out of the track, it is a blast to be at a race and that might interest people. I just hope that interest doesn’t dip in the next few years when the new in thing is here. As for the racing, I was young when I started watching racing in the early 2000’s with my parents. Been a fan since I can remember, and we all see how the racing is now… but the new fans may not know any better because they weren’t around for the peak of the sport, or the peak of racing, in my opinion.

I think they should try to rotate in road Atlanta somehow. It’s a World class facility. Maybe switch an Atlanta date every other year or something along those lines

In Dover's defence, it didn't rain on Sunday this year lol

1 race a year makes it more desirable and as you said you have to get your tickets earlier. Also the Nextgen car has helped improve the cookie cutter tracks

For the Denver race people showed up cause of the weather on Sunday

NASCAR needs to bring back race view as well

Went to my first race in 15 years this year.

Because all the American Netflix subscribers have realised that F1 is a pile of "follow the leader" pile of boring shit! And now they have discovered a proper race car series! Thats why!

Remember most tracks have removed a huge amounts of seats. So, its kinda misleading.

Last year at the Coke 600 i was there & i think it was a sell out crowd, i also went to Darlington for the Southern 500 & they sold out aswell