Report Predicts Huge Job Losses in NASCAR

nascar can dry up and leave mooresville

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Clay guss you don't like Nascar?

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Oddly enough, NASCAR needs to learn the lesson, you have to spend money to make money. Lower ticket prices will attract more spectators. Your common middle class family that doesn't have a track in their state, can't afford to travel and pay the ticket prices NASCAR charges for a race. It's not for lack of want that people don't attend, it's lack of ability.

In addition, "build it and they will come." NASCAR needs to quit holding all their races on Superspeedways, mile tracks, and two road courses a year and add some new smaller tracks, and even dirt tracks in states that don't have tracks. Lesson the events to one race per year per track, add more tracks, and lower ticket prices. This idea if implemented would help NASCAR's plight.

Kim

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NASCAR needs to face that it's not just the economy that is causing this problem. It has a lot to do with the product they are marketing. It's gotten BORING! Reducing the number of races would be a huge mistake. The NFL is looking at increasing the number of games. Absence does not make the heart grow fonder. It causes people to look else where.

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Good luck convincing Nascar to build new tracks when they do not fill the ones they have now.
As the teams have gotten a better handle on the new car the racing has gotten a little better, but it is still nothing like what it should be. Generally the drivers have commented they do not like the longer races as they spend most of the time riding around just making laps. I say shorten all races to no more than 300 miles and do away with restrictor plates. A shorter race will mean drivers will have to actually race more, and ride around less if they want to win. A shorter race will mean they can drive the cars harder and not have to save it for the end.
As for the choo choo train races, again, nothing happens until the last twenty laps, boring!!! Take off the restrictor plates, make it a 300 mile race, and then you will see them boys racin at Daytona and Talledega.
MBL

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Some great ideas here folks,,,but then we are dealing with Nascar or Nazcar as Anna calls it.

Love it Mike,,,,,,300 or even 400 miles and noooooo restrictor plates would indeed be 300 miles of real racing and save $$$ for the teams in fuel and at $1600 to $2000 for a set of tires at least 2 to 3 sets a race. They also don't need to build new tracks ( Look around the country,,,,they are allready there ) but if they did I vote for short 1/2 to 3/4 mile tracks and Kim, yes a few dirt tracks would really be exciting. One race per track on certain tracks (ie. Chicago, Fontana, Texas, etc. ) cookie cutters would be great but like Rob I too would not want or think reducing the number of races to be a viable solution. Lowering the tickets prices is also a great idea Kim but IMO nascar won't lower them enough for more of the HEART of this country to be able to afford 2 or three races a year. Rob refered to BORING as being an Issue and I believe this to be the biggest problem Nascar has created with it's COT, they are not leaving much to each teams "CREATIVE MINDS" to produce something new with all the rules heaped in with the COT. My thought would be to change the rules a bit.
1. All cars use the same Cage ( I know not much of change but this is in the interest of safety.)

2. Length of the car ( Damn give'm a foot to play with ).

3. Height of the car ( Give'm another 12 inches )

4. Weight of the car ( larger tolerance from High to low )

5. Shape or Style of Car, ( let's face it folks we all like different cookies )

6. Qualify and race the same day ( Race what ya qualify with is a good equalizer......albeit a small one ).

7. The 'CHASE TRACKS' ......put a chip in a hat for each track, sell tickets at a dollar a pop to fans around the country for a chance to draw ONE chip for the chase. Do this on something like the fourth of July race at Daytona, donate the money made to a charity ( There would be enough made to fly the DRAW----EEEEEZ to the event and still have a large amount for charity ).

Just a few idea's

Brad

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Rumor is Yahoo is dropping their NASCAR reporters......limited coverage....happy holidays to those poor guys

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For as much as it concernes me, i been saying from a long timethat NAZCAR should get ready of the choo, choo train races, the provisional points crap, the past championship provision crap and all other crappy rules.
Reducing the number of races? HELL NO!!!!. INCREASE THEM , DON'T DECREASE!!!!.
Shorting up the races around the 300 miles lenght?
G,OOD IDEA to save money tires brakes and gas, but that also means: cut down the duration of the entertainement.
Obviously, by cutting down the show time NAZCAR has to cut down the tickets prices too.
WWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT????
I CANNOT HEAR YOU.
Those may be the answer of BRIAN FRANCE, MIKE ELTON ,
PAMPERSTOWN etc etc.
REDUCING THE TEAMS DRIVERS: well, we been reading about that for a while now even before this latest financial crash. DEI was destined to go south every since dej left.CHEAPO' GANASSI has been going anywhere in nazcar for the last few decades;add to them YATES, DAVIS EVERGREEN
HAAS(brfore tony) BANG(BAM),Waltrip AND 10 OTHER TEAMS at least. Where are they going to go now in this financial economics turmoil? exspecially considering that many of the big sponsors dropped out and still dropping.
Maybe the positive thing out of all will be some more talented drivers out there and get ready of the drive around and collect drivers? Maybe nazcar will scale back to the days of DRIVERS OWNERS, and than we may view real racing again.We'll see.
Than, ROBBIE GORDON might get somewhere, while he is getting nowhere now.
may work for us....

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let them race what we can buy, like it used to be

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I remember fairgrounds dirt track stuff. NASCAR is a joke,
why pretend they are cars? Fake painted headlights, etc.
Race if you want but cut out the "stock car" fakery.

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