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Being on a retired persons budget, we do not have the "All You Can Eat" package from Dish so once NBC takes over and puts most of the races on their Sports channel I don't get to see any of them.
Where did you race at, what part of the country?
This thread made me Google and I laughed that the only U.S. *airline* advertising via NASCAR is Allegiant. (Apparently one of the drivers is the kid of an Allegiant big wig...)
That's how a lot of sponsorships and such happen. We have a 1/2 mile track just up the road. Guy bought it, totally rebuilt it primarily because he had a kid working his way up the ranks. Now the track sits empty and has been for sale for two or three years now. It really is a nice facility. Two local tracks here have been dead for several years now when both used to have pretty good programs.
In the Cup series currently you have Paul Menard of Menard's fame.
I'm shocked at the number of tennis and golf pros sporting NetJets on their clothes. That's a bunch of advertising for 1% ers. Nothing wrong that, just surprised as it's mostly only visible on TV or up close. Well, that and 99%+ of the viewers can't afford their product.
Several race tracks I used to frequent closed down due to spreading human habitation. Just like airports.
Being on a retired persons budget, we do not have the "All You Can Eat" package from Dish so once NBC takes over and puts most of the races on their Sports channel I don't get to see any of them.
NASCAR never interested me. The only NASCAR races I like watching are the road racing tracks. Mostly because it is really entertaining to watch them try to turn right (except a few who know how to do it). But given that I don't know the schedule and have no cable, it never happens. I don't like oval racing. I see why people like it, but I don't. I like city street racing(Indy) even less.
But mostly, I cannot identify or relate with anything in NASCAR. "Brands", teams, complicated championships, cautions, wins based on pure luck. All of that makes no sense to me. And I'm too lazy to learn. Indy is worse. Seems like Indy is a great place for a has-been racer to go and retire.
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This thread made me Google and I laughed that the only U.S. *airline* advertising via NASCAR is Allegiant. (Apparently one of the drivers is the kid of an Allegiant big wig...)
One of the biggest problems right now, not only can the fans that are actually still left can't find the race, half the time they don't even get the channel that it is on. Then Nascar says to the teams, "Gee' we just don't understand why y'all are having trouble finding sponsors".
There is still a line a mile long of sponsors that want to be the main sponsor, like Winston was and the current one is, can't think of it right now, Monster Depends or something like that.
In my brief flash in NASCAR, sponsor came looking for cars. There was not enough cars so that is why many cars had multiple major sponsorships. The car may be sponsored by one company while the driver has his own sponsorship. Big $$$$$$$
Do they still do the NASCAR "hat dance"?
I think getting rid of the Waltrips as commentators would make things better.
I don't see how they keep the truck series alive. You used to see a lot of cup guys driving trucks and all the big team had truck teams too. Today, not so much.