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Hats off to Abreu. Awesome story. Danica is not going to be the only media darling in NASCAR anymore. Abreu is surely going to kick her ass on and off the track. And he might actually win some races. Plus he almost fits on the side of a wheaties box as it is. Men, women and kids are going to love him. And with good reason. He'll have is own Outlaw teams in a year.

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com

NASCAR needs a marketing power story bad.  I hope this new era of young talent boosts nascar soon.  I live twenty minutes from Charlotte Motor Speedway. 

They are taking away grandstands, no more t-shirt haulers (loss of jobs), slowing the cars down, elminating testing (loss of jobs), lost interest in promotional events at the race track  They lost ESPN, and even the local newspaper barely covers them anymore.  They called the Thursday before the final Homestead race Pink SlIp Thursday.  As soon as all those rigs hit the highway they were told to pack there stuff up and hit the road.

The Hall of Fame got a 20 million dollar bail out after not being able to pay one single payment they promised.  Most folks around here are demanding they kick NASCAR out of there and put something in the building that actually makes money.

I love Larson and Rico, but unfortunately, they have arrived at the downside of NASCAR's popularity.  No one around here sees anything positive for NASCARs future.  The biggest joke this offseason has been "Take those 60,000 seats you are elminating at the speedway and put them at the dirt track since they are constantly selling out all their seats."

I haven't been a huge fan of NASCAR since Harry Gant retired, but I understand the need for NASCAR to succeed for the sake of the local economy.  I want it to be huge but its best days are behind us. 

Brandon McLain
United Sprint Car Series Driver
2014 Season
National Rookie of the Year!
National Points - 8th
Southern Points - 3rd
Asphalt Points - 3rd
18 Races, 3 Top 5's, 14 Top 10's

I know there are those who say the racing in nascar this past season was great. But the sponsors want the 18 - 34 age group and those have too short of an attention span for a 500 mile race. Heck I'm 59 and I lose interest long before the end. Drivers talk openly about just staying on the lead lap till the last 50 miles then start racing. That's real exciting! Nascar should look at some changes. What drew the younger people to the sport in the 70's & 80's will not draw todays 20 somethings.

The draw of the young drivers with the great back story fades after 2-3 hours of cars going around in circles.

Removing seats they can not sell proves something is wrong. Changing the cars and manufacturing a close points race at the end of the season has proven not to be the answer.

LOL at adding 60,000 seats to the dirt track. The reason the dirt track "sells out" is because it has a tiny, tiny fraction of the seats the paved track has.

If NASCAR wants to get the attention of the younger people they need to completely revamp their system. Race Day needs to mean something. Nothing wrong with practice times, qualifying, etc. but race day has to change. Run a similar system to your regular weekly dirt track only qualify for heat race positions. Heats, B features, and the main event. Only thing is, the main even is 100 miles, not 500. Make every lap count. All the new points systems are a joke. If you want people to tune in week by week, a 400 mile nap followed by 100 miles of racing isn't going to do it.

I think a big issue issue is that generic "Nascars" have no relation to what people are driving, unlike the old days when people rooted for the Ford, Chevy or whatever they drove

there are stock cars, stock based cars, stock appearing cars, race cars, cars that are designed to resemble factory cars and there are shit boxes, but there is no such vehicle as a "nascar".

to indy and beyond!!