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Re: Official NASCAR 2018 thread(WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE)
« Reply #525 on: September 15, 2018, 12:04:23 AM »
The Car of Tomorrow sucks, the race stages suck, the season is too long (sucks), frequent changes to the points and Chase format suck, awesome drivers retiring and getting replaced with Kroger brand drivers sucks.  Other than that NASCAR is fine.

Man, dead on.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2018 thread(WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE)
« Reply #526 on: September 16, 2018, 03:53:14 PM »
The Car of Tomorrow sucks, the race stages suck, the season is too long (sucks), frequent changes to the points and Chase format suck, awesome drivers retiring and getting replaced with Kroger brand drivers sucks.  Other than that NASCAR is fine.

Man, dead on.

I must add one other issue: Races on NBCSN.  How many people even have access to this channel.  It has to murder efforts to maintain, let alone expand, the fan base.

That said, I have to be honest.  I could get used to the new, young drivers.  I can even put up with some of the car changes as they try and reset things to keep it competitive (but it gets really old every 3 years).  However, I have absolutely no idea how the F the points system truly works, how this year's playoff format works as it is carried out, and I actually follow NASCAR.  If you are disengaging your engaged fan, I can't imagine the impact upon the casual fan.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2018 thread(WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE)
« Reply #527 on: July 01, 2019, 06:25:10 PM »
Anyone watch anymore?

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Re: Official NASCAR 2018 thread(WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE)
« Reply #528 on: July 01, 2019, 06:28:12 PM »
Does Barstool love NASCAR now or what?

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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #529 on: July 01, 2019, 07:21:29 PM »
Anyone watch anymore?

watch way less. Did happen to catch the end of Chicago and was pretty happy to see Bowman get the win. I don't care for the new package at most tracks, seems to take away most of the skill.
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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #530 on: July 01, 2019, 08:59:57 PM »
Nah, just can't get into it at all. There were an insane amount of very popular drivers that left the sport at essentially the same time. Also guys like Martin Truex are just brutal for mass appeal. NASCAR is very close to getting its regional sport back, the governing body seemingly doesn't want that, although you can't tell with their ridiculous decision making, but most of the diehards would love for it to be the regional juggernaut it was pre Gordon vs. Earnhardt.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #531 on: July 02, 2019, 07:48:12 AM »
there is no parity at all in the sport, its jgr and penske with a couple of other cars sprinkled in here and there. The races are waaay too long. Other than like the daytona 500, coca cola 600, and the brickyard they should be shortened. Also no real rivalries anymore, i thought newman and boyer could be fun but nascar said play nice, that and newman is always in like 27th.


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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #532 on: July 02, 2019, 12:41:35 PM »
At some tracks, there's more horsepower under some hoods in the parking lot then under the hoods on the track.  WTF?




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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #533 on: July 02, 2019, 11:00:29 PM »
I like the trucks, probably because I like Thursday/Friday/Saturday night racing.

Will watch the NASCAR night races and short track stuff, and enjoy tracks like Kansas and Kentucky.. but more often than not, NASCAR on Sunday afternoons is an afterthought for me.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #534 on: August 16, 2019, 08:10:03 AM »
Bristol weekend, truck race was a lot of fun last night. Looking forward to the others.

But man, if Jr and his wife and daughter would've been killed in that plane crash, that would've be incredibly sad. I got sick to my stomach when I saw the first headline and pics. What a scary deal.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2019 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #535 on: August 16, 2019, 10:29:31 AM »
Bristol weekend, truck race was a lot of fun last night. Looking forward to the others.

But man, if Jr and his wife and daughter would've been killed in that plane crash, that would've be incredibly sad. I got sick to my stomach when I saw the first headline and pics. What a scary deal.

I thankfully was off social media when the news hit. By the time i checked, the first tweet i saw was him leaving the hospital and i was like WTF?!
These private plane accidents seem to happen more often than they should.
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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #537 on: February 17, 2020, 08:44:49 PM »
Yeah that's about as bad as it gets.
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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #539 on: February 18, 2020, 08:01:52 AM »
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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #540 on: February 18, 2020, 08:26:39 AM »
I was sick to my stomach waiting for updates... everything about it felt like Dale

Don't care if he races again, hope he can lead a somewhat normal and healthy life with his girls.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #541 on: April 12, 2020, 10:20:07 PM »
Not that I was watching intently anyway but #myguy is dunzo
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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #543 on: April 12, 2020, 10:55:24 PM »
Holy crap. Not good.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #544 on: April 12, 2020, 11:35:34 PM »
What's up shooter, good to see you, friend.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #545 on: April 13, 2020, 09:19:54 AM »
What's up shooter, good to see you, friend.

Just been taking care of myself the best I can. Actually been enjoying the iRacing (I iRace myself) events in all forms of racing, until this.

Hope you and your family have been well, man.

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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #546 on: April 13, 2020, 09:42:26 AM »
Isn't iracing crazy expensive? What's your setup?

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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #547 on: April 13, 2020, 01:55:29 PM »
Isn't iracing crazy expensive? What's your setup?

This will be long.

It is very expensive, yes. I currently have $1,300* in my set up, which is on the simple side compared to most in iRacing. Then roughly $500 in iracing fees (membership, $10-15 PER track, $10-15 PER car/truck). I did a very simple set up due to not having much space currently, but had the PC built to hand the triple monitors when I complete my rig (will be $1,700 more to complete how I want) later. I've found my current set up is not very comfortable for long races.

*Current set up on small office desk:
Single 34 inch LG gaming monitor
Custom built gaming PC w/ graphics card to handle triple monitors
Logitech G29 wheel and pedals (they are fine, but might upgrade at some point)

Future set up:
Single 34 inch w/ 2x 27 inch monitors on side, same PC and wheel/pedals, with this:



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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #548 on: April 13, 2020, 02:01:12 PM »
Since getting more publicity over the last month, traffic has increased a crazy amount and more of the famous drivers have been on a ton. I've been in races with William Byron, Dale Jr., TJ Majors, Landon Cassill, Grant Enfinger, Anthony Alfredo, and some other Truck series guys.

Before that, had raced some with Larson, Kevin Swindell and a lot of national dirt guys.

It's a blast, and even more fun when racing with the best (and being competitive, frustrating when you're not).

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Re: Official NASCAR 2020 thread(Anyone still watching?)
« Reply #549 on: April 13, 2020, 03:45:11 PM »
I'm assuming you have to know how to drive a manual to do this?