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2024 NASCAR Thread - Enjoy Illinois 300 - World Wide Technology Raceway - 6/2/24 - 3:30 FS1

Stewart has moved on to drag racing and starting a family with his wife. Hard to watch as NASCAR is changing so much and the old guard is leaving the sport. 15-20 yrs ago I went to multiple NASCAR events every year, and really enjoyed being at the dirt races at Bristol two years ago. I just don't follow Cup anymore. I would much rather go to Wake County, B-G, Caraway, etc.
 
BoDeac said:
Stewart has moved on to drag racing and starting a family with his wife. Hard to watch as NASCAR is changing so much and the old guard is leaving the sport. 15-20 yrs ago I went to multiple NASCAR events every year, and really enjoyed being at the dirt races at Bristol two years ago. I just don't follow Cup anymore. I would much rather go to Wake County, B-G, Caraway, etc.
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NASCAR has lost its personalities. The fake Stenhouse fight during primetime was an attempt to revive interest but fell short ( in more ways than one ). Today, it just feels so corporate and manufactured. Kind of the way I feel college sports are leaning.

Cale Yarborough punching the shit out of Donnie Allison was authentic. This nonsense today.... not so much.
 
When Harvick retired I didn’t have a driver for the first time in my life. After the first few weeks I realized how bad the racing in the Cup series is now that I didn’t have a rooting interest. I will watch the CARS Tour all day over Cup. I went to the XFinity race on Saturday. Had no interest in the 600. The cars are just too easy to drive in Cup these days.
 
BoDeac said:
Stewart has moved on to drag racing and starting a family with his wife. Hard to watch as NASCAR is changing so much and the old guard is leaving the sport. 15-20 yrs ago I went to multiple NASCAR events every year, and really enjoyed being at the dirt races at Bristol two years ago. I just don't follow Cup anymore. I would much rather go to Wake County, B-G, Caraway, etc.
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Lmk when you’re at any of those! We can meet up and I can interview you :)
 
deacdixieboy said:
When Harvick retired I didn’t have a driver for the first time in my life. After the first few weeks I realized how bad the racing in the Cup series is now that I didn’t have a rooting interest. I will watch the CARS Tour all day over Cup. I went to the XFinity race on Saturday. Had no interest in the 600. The cars are just too easy to drive in Cup these days.
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This happened to me back when Junior retired in 2017. After he left (I was and am a die hard fan), there was no one that I cared enough about-- either rooting for or rooting against -- to garner my attention. The Cup series lost many of its biggest names and personalities in about a 3 year span from 2015-2018, including Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Dale Jr., Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, among others, leaving a black hole that the new/younger drivers have not been able to fill.

For nearly ten years, a bunch of us went to Martinsville twice a year, always getting the same seats right on the start/finish line. It was something I truly looked forward to doing. Seeing Junior win in 2014 and Matt Kenseth "accidentally" wreck Logano in 2015 are two of my greatest "in-person" sports memories. Now, my Dad doesn't get around so well, my kids have grown up, and frankly I just don't enjoy it any more. That night race in Spring 2022, with its terrible weather and even worse racing, was the final straw for me. I haven't seriously considered buying tickets since.
 
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