The casual fans are already gone. The sport is ticking back up now. The racing is as exciting as it's been since pre-COT.89Hen wrote:If you're a NASCAR fan, you should be worried. I was the previous casual fan that became a much bigger fan via 24 and not I've lost interest. Could be a bigger trend.93henfan wrote:
Don't let the door hit ya!
DSUrocks07 wrote:Big NASCAR fan (3rd generation), but I just can't get into short track races. If you can't get over 100 mph, are you really "racing"?
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They do get WELL OVER 100 mph at all 3 short tracks. At Martinsville close to 120 mph on the 800 ft straight aways. Then they are breaking hard in the turns getting down to close to 40 mph. Logano won the pole with a qualifying lap of over 97 mph. They are running avg green flag lap times in the 90s mph. Yeah if you look at the avg race lap times its usually around 75-80 mph. But that includes the caution laps which are at a crawl. And with all the beaten & banging there are usually a lot of cautions. 500 laps, 1000 times of hard breaking & acceleration per race. You have to be trolling?DSUrocks07 wrote:Big NASCAR fan (3rd generation), but I just can't get into short track races. If you can't get over 100 mph, are you really "racing"?
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I'll be at Loudon too with my dad and both sons. We're meeting Logano for the first time. Youngest son may have a coronary. Will be at both Dover races in our same seats since the track opened in 69. Actually, now that my boys go, I may be squeezed out. We have eight seats, but my dad and his three brothers split them. I don't mind missing one race a year. Youngest son is a crazy fan right now. I see a go kart in his very near future. We have a million dirt kart tracks around here.BDKJMU wrote:Ditto on Martinsville- I went to my 2nd race there last weekend.
I've been to 10 tracks, but the only ones I've gone to more than once are the 3 short tracks and two of the three 1 mile tracks (Dover & Loudon). At the shorter tracks its easier to see the whole field, there's more beaten & banging, and the racing IMHOP is better to watch. Of the other 5 tracks I've been to all once: Indy (2.5 mile) in 2013- most boring race I've been to. Pocono (2.6 mile) in 2013- kind of boring. Chicagoland (1.5 mile) in 2014- kind of boring. Charlotte (1.5 miles) last Spring was ok. Darlington last summer (1.3 miles) -good
Going to all 3 short track races this month (Martinsville, Bristol next week, Richmond in 2 weeks) and 4 to 5 of the of the 6 this season (Martinsville in Oct and maybe Bristol in Aug). Throw in the mile tracks and will make Loudon in July and Dover in Sept (but not in May).
Short track racing is where its at..
That must be the reason. Never been to Martinsville.93henfan wrote:You have to be trolling?DSUrocks07 wrote:Big NASCAR fan (3rd generation), but I just can't get into short track races. If you can't get over 100 mph, are you really "racing"?
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Martinsville is my favorite track. North Wilkesboro (RIP) was second. Old Richmond was third. Bristol next. New Richmond next. Darlington and Rockingham (RIP) next. Then Dover. Then everything beside Charlotte and its 1.5 mile clones. Then Charlotte and the cookie cutters.
The sad part is, when Charlotte was the only double dog leg intermediate track on the circuit it was exciting. Now that you see that layout for a third of the schedule it's nauseating.
You just can't go to a race at Martinsville and not have a good time.
Yeah.clenz wrote:It's nice to see Cassill in the top 25. Even if only for a short time
Real solid day for him, especially running against the cream of the crop cars that probably have a few more hp.clenz wrote:Cassill with a nice top 5 run right now. spent time in top 3
