I think the "freight" is a new addition.I am a very casual NASCAR fan so maybe it's always been this way. Has Hamlins car always been FedEx Freight? I thought he was just plain ol FedEx. Not that it really matters........
I am a very casual NASCAR fan so maybe it's always been this way. Has Hamlins car always been FedEx Freight? I thought he was just plain ol FedEx. Not that it really matters........
I'd take Montoya over Franchitti. He is slowly working his way up the standings. Franchitti needs a season under his belt. Montoya will make the chase this year.As stated in an earlier post I had Hamlin, Edwards and Franchitti in my Fantasy league. I won the week in my league. I did put in to replace Franchitti for Reitemann next week. BM
I'd take Montoya over Franchitti. He is slowly working his way up the standings. Franchitti needs a season under his belt. Montoya will make the chase this year.
Anybody watching the attendance/ratings die?
M-Ville TV ratings came in equal to last years numbers. Fan attendance was an issue this year due to very cold temps and a day long mist in the air. The race was a sellout, not everyone went or stayed. I have a few friends that stayed home with fresh tickets in their pocket, too dang cold.
All true. Statistics show Nascar is starting to fail. Tv ratings and attendance. Sponsors are drying up too. Nascar.com or espn won't give you the real numbers.You sound like you might work for nascar pr group. Come on, fan attendance at races has been declining over the last three years. Nascar might say it was a sell-out but don't believe it. A true nascar fan with a ticket in his hand is not going to be sitting at home watching a race on tv. Tell me, at what track have they added seating to in the last 3 years. Nascar, since RJ Reynolds left, has gone the way of IRL.
All true. Statistics show Nascar is starting to fail. Tv ratings and attendance. Sponsors are drying up too. Nascar.com or espn won't give you the real numbers.
All true. Statistics show Nascar is starting to fail. Tv ratings and attendance. Sponsors are drying up too. Nascar.com or espn won't give you the real numbers.
Many outlets are saying that the true/diehard fan is feeling disenfranchised. Nascar has gone too corporate, too into pleasing the sponsors, too many commercials. They have left markets/tracks that have been mainstays for fans to attend and gone to markets/tracks where they think they can get a bigger tv audience. In my opinion, and I am for this, foreign drivers and cars(Toyota) are contributing to it as well. Now that Toyota is starting to win, things will get worse. The strong southern supporters can't stand foreign cars/drivers. If they win, you lose those close minded fans. Also the analysts are mentioning the rediculous prices being charged for tickets now.Any ideas as to the cause of this? Simple over saturation?
Martinsville overnight TV Ratings same as 2007: NASCAR on Fox tallied a 4.9/10 yesterday for racing from Martinsville. Yesterday's 4.9/10 is flat with last year's Martinsville rating [4.9/11], but in this case that's good news given the dramatically tougher competition faced by this year's race. Yesterday's race came against a pair of NCAA Regional Finals, including the strong Davidson-Kansas game, while last year's race aired on the Final Four weekend and faced no NCAA basketball. By matching last year's rating, FOX maintains its streak of seven straight NASCAR events this year that have been at least flat with last year in the metered markets (this excludes the Fontana race because of rain). Los Angeles has emerged as the surprise market of the year for NASCAR. Yesterday's race earned a 2.8/7 in LA, a +65% gain over last year's 1.7/5. For the season-to-date, Sprint Cup racing on FOX is averaging a 6.2/12, including Fontana, a +5% bump over last season's 5.9/12.(Fox PR)(3-31-2008) Comment here
We’re talking about Martinsville, right? Martinsville was a sellout and has been for as long as I can remember. They used to hold back 1200 tickets for Sunday morning sales but I’m not sure they still do that. The temps were in the low 40’s, too dang cold to sit outside.
Nascar PR, hardly. Folks that know me know full well how critical I am of Nascar.
Showed some agressiveness also,haven't seen that in a while.
As far as the other discussion on NASCAR's future..... This is like everything else. When you start to get corporate America involved and are out to make the big bucks there is a purist reactive backlash that takes place. It is starting and will continue.