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    Advertisers pay Speed to show ads to NASCAR viewers, so we can expect SPeed to continue to become a full-time NASCRAP channel. It sucks...
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    And all the other stuff only comes on madd late/early in the morning sometimes on Sundays. Shouldn't the nascar season be over soon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by KNHTRDR
    And all the other stuff only comes on madd late/early in the morning sometimes on Sundays. Shouldn't the nascar season be over soon?
    The season ended last Sunday. Nascar is second only to football in viewership, so they are taken very seriously as a demographic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisdavis
    The season ended last Sunday. Nascar is second only to football in viewership, so they are taken very seriously as a demographic.
    = we have too many fucking rednecks wasting our oxygen
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    Quote Originally Posted by SpeedM0nkey
    we have too many fucking rednecks wasting our oxygen
    Agreed. Being from the North, we never understood the big deal about Nascar, and being down here now, I still don't get it.
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    Start your own tv station and show those 3 all the time. Watch how quickly you'll fail. Not to take anything away from those 3 forms of racing, but americans don't fall in love with it. We want to watch people from our own town, our own state. Seriously how much do you know about Schumacher? You might know where hes from, when he started racing, etc but thats it. Thats what those series are missing. You never "get to know" the driver. Nascar fans are able to feel like they really know the drivers. You learn more about them then just stats. You see their families, their hobbies, you can get a handshake and autograph. Nascar is not just rednecks. Go to the California race, and count the rednecks one day. Or go to Dover, Delaware and count them. Nascar is followed by big business now. The audience is full of CEO's, and management from major corporations these days.


    Speed knows what they are doing. Even if you don't like it, and I don't like it.

    Think of it this way. Would you rather have 1 million viewers watching nascar nation, or 50,000 watching a AU Supercar race? To many people forget Speed is a business. They are after $$$$ more than anything else. If they could play topless women all day and make more they would.

    BTW, who wants to watch a bunch of guys in tights hitting a ball with a stick, and running around in a diamond all day? Being from the South we never understood all that. <--- thats how you sound

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    ^ fair arguement, but the reason i am one of the few people that can watch

    an entire auto race for 3 or more hours is because i am one who is facinated

    with true driving skill, the worlds best engines, and worlds best racetracks.

    If an american auto racer were to succeed in europe. It could become

    another Lance Armstrong story. With the publicity, the popularity for the

    sport would grow.


    Most Nascar fans arn't fans for the racing!!!

    I ask many nascar fans often and they saw their primary interest is really the

    drivers lives, none of them have a clue of what happens on the racetrack as

    long as pretty boy Earnharth wins.


    It goes deeper than this, Nascar is the last sport "some people" feel is there's

    if you know what i mean .

    Meaning no foreigners of any kind. People, cars, whatever.

    Last year a nascar race was run in mexico. it was on a road course and i

    really enjoyed it as they were road racing just with nascar like vehicles. I

    asked a regular nascar fan what she thought about the sport growing and she

    said it wasn't necessary and would ruin nascar when in fact it was growing.

    And the whole Toyota business, toyota was booed when they won their first

    race in the truck series. Not to mention the people that pleeded for them not

    to compete.

    Its like the civil rights movement only for Toyota

    Again money is money, but my money wont go to a sport where the racing is

    secondary and the good old boy idea is what is trying to be spread.

    There is nothing wrong with oval racing (i watch the IRL) but nascar to me is

    something else. A sport that represents the past and wont change because

    of it.

    Racing is all about change, how the new and better will win. Nascar wont see

    this happen in a long time.

    Thank for Euro sport a channel i will get next year when i swith to satellite

    and all the good racing will be there.
    Last edited by toojdm; 12-06-2005 at 09:13 AM.

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