Waltrip was, as he often is, absolutely correct. Profound. Prophetic. Funny how Fox simply cast him aside. Exactly as we'd expect.

What heads

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Amazing… ♥️✌️😎

The broadcast teams were so good. Now it’s just a big comedy show on Fox that takes away from the sense of drama and suspense, the true essence of man and machine and competition that draws people to racing in the first place. I don’t tune in to see scripted comedy segments with the drivers pre race, or to listen to Clint Bowyer call everyone “that boy” and call all the cars “hot rods” and to make a big joke out of everything that is happening on the track during a race. MRN has better coverage than what Fox offers. Oh well, who cares what I think, right?

NASCAR has too many gimmicks these days. Lets wind the clock back

How does feel to see NASCAR action at North Wilkesboro again?

DEAD ON D.W.

Now in 2023 they’re racing in Wilkesboro again

What nascar was is long gone. What nascar will be remains to be seen. Unfortunately nascars fate is in the hands of nascar officials.

Last Cup Race at North Wilkesboro. Until 2023. It is being modernized and returning to host the All-Star Race in May during NASCAR's 75th Anniversary season at that.

Hilarious seeing the crew guy cheating Dale's right rear fender while another guy tries to block the view.

These are the truest words ever spoken.

Nascar imploded itself. after Dales death..Nascar turned on leigons of seasonal ticket holders. when that kind of money leaves the track..tons of outside sponsored money will be needed to survive theor own suicide. thus the face of nascar truly did changed over season ticket holders and the mishandling of us fans.

Aaaaaaaand it’s fucking back and ironically Texas Motor Speedway, one of the worst tracks in nascar history with awful attendence and horrible racing is on the way out. RIP Bruton Smith, but also he was a selfish stupid asshole and NASCAR would have been better off if he was never born.

Ol DW was spot on in his analysis. The start of NASCAR's decline in popularity was the shuttering of North Wilkesboro. NASCAR had no control over the ownership of the speedway, but they had all of the control of the race dates and the tracks the dates are allotted to, they still do. There have been other things that have helped in the decline, some of NASCAR's doing, some not. Every race used to be a sellout, few are now. Some tracks (Charlotte, Talladega, Daytona come to mind) have torn down their back straight grandstands. Others have covered the back straight grandstands and less desirable seats with signage. Why? They can't sell the seats and don't want to show vast swathes of empty seats on TV. The fans have spoken, and continue to do so. I have been a NASCAR fan since 1966. I was a car owner/builder/driver in the old Winston Weekly Racing Series in the 80's and early 90's. Gone from attending several Cup and Xfinity races a year, to not going at all. Went from watching all the races, to watching very few. NASCAR needs to dump the charter system, dump stage racing and get rid of the "chase". There's an old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They attempted to fix something that wasn't broken and made it worse.

Glad the track is back from the dead again

NASCAR has become a homogeneous and boring corporate event. Local tracks, local driving names, regional competitions and wildly different cars, that's what made NASCAR. I love vanilla ice cream but hate vanilla racing.

Good lord.

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Darrell Waltrip is a real guy, he actually cares for the fans and future of the sport. I hope to shake his hand someday.

THEY BACK TO WILKESBORO 2023

I went to three Winston Cup races at Wilkesboro back the day. I go to see Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip and Terry Labonte win.

It's back

Moral of the story:abandoning the hardcore fans wants for causal fans who will forget about you when the next big fad comes around will always come back to bite you Towns like Wilkesboro and Rockingham needed nascar to support the local economy but nascar abandoned them, now nascar needs them back, but everyone had either moved on after the departure destroyed their town or won't stick their necks out for a company that stabbed them first

Cool to see it operational again!

This is f’ing awesome

So awesome seeing this gem of a race track being given new life. Hopefully they can get a Cup date here in the coming years once renovations are complete.

Liberalism ruins everything

Halloween is coming. They need to put a bunch of Zombies on the track!

When people ask me if I’m a fan of NASCAR I say yes from 1970-2003

Greedy track owners ruined it as much as NASCAR did for allowing track dates to be taken elsewhere, the cookie cutter tracks have been such a joke for the last 25 years by one certain company, this track was unique and put on a good show. The baby boomers are dying off and NASCAR is struggling to keep millennials in its fan base, and the next gen car is a total joke and is proving to be unsafe as some people in the know pointed out earlier this year 2022.

Should update this with a current lap around the track now post renovations. They’ve done a lot of work in just 7 months and continuing to improve it

If they went back to stock cars I'd watch. IROC racing was great, but these new cars are garbage and so are the super speedways.

Glad to see this track come alive again!.

That puddle down in turn 1 and 2 really shows the unique feature of this track. It’s downhill there and uphill in 3 and 4.

Man..no SAFER barriers, crossover gates gonna be one heck of a restoration.

North Wilkesboro Speedway is back!

He was right.

glad to see the track finally getting some attention, even if nascar doesnt come back

“Only f****** in the world complaining y’all free…” - Big Neal Saunders 🔥🇺🇸

Started listening in 07 in Iraq....crazy to hear all of this again. First fire fight in the backround......feel this shit!

Awesome to see the old track get some love

There were 3 things that made me quit anything to do with Nascar, (1) was when they left North Wilkesboro Speedway. (2) was when Earnhardt died at Daytona. (3) was when Nascar decided to go WOKE about the Confederate flag. Each one of those drove me away and I haven't watched a race since and personally I don't care if they ever come back to NWS, I'm done with Nascar forever now. Btw I quit watching MLB in '93 after the rich players decided to strike for more money and didn't play a world series that year, and the NFL and NBA is just a bunch of rich WOKE cry babies so I don't and never will watch those again either. I've found that watching local races and sports is much better and deserve my money to support them. Look fans, we have the power to control these rich people when they do stupid things, but if we let them get by with it, we will always be at their mercy.

I was there that day...... Over 60,000 people were there every time there was a race.... And they said it wasn't big enough..... NASCAR just wishes they could get $60,000 at a race now

DW was right on the $$. I used to go to multiple races per year and never miss a broadcast on TV and now I may watch a couple of complete races each season.

On a somewhat related note, let's see if the concrete at Dover will be covered in weeds in a few years. The downfall of that track just blows my mind, a place that used to pack 144,000 in a densely populated market has declined so much over the last decade. It's a great track and I'll be heart-broken if we lose racing there in the coming years.

Despain & Waltrip knew what they were talking about. It's not "The Chase" guys, it's shit like this, Bruton's not going to change, but you have to wonder how Bob Berh, feels about having races cancelled at his New Hampshire track? He who laughs last...

GREED KILLS EVERYTHING

Dang I miss Sunday nights with Dave despain on Sunday nights