Ian-S wrote:
Philthy82 wrote:
I don't think it's just a "youth of today" thing; like it or not, everyone has more distractions to fill their time, and it's hard to be successful with something that demands people give up a whole afternoon every week. There are two likely ways this can go as I see it: change nothing and see the sport slowly drop from relevance until change is forced by lack of revenue or things just fall apart, or try updating aspects of the sport to suit a modern audience and take a chance that it will improve the sport's fortunes. I know this is a slippery slope and the worst changes in the past decade have been made under this reasoning, but race length is something that inevitably has to change IMO.
Yeah I probably unfairly singled out the youth of today when it's not really them, it's everybody, we have instant access to entertainment easily available with we get bored with the 4 hour race.
Even if it was 100% a "youth of today" problem (which we're all agreeing it isn't
) NASCAR would be suicidal to ignore their needs and carry on acting as if it was still 1969, that's one way to neglect your franchise into an early grave. Races like the Aero Push 500 at Fontana could probably benefit from shorter heat races anyway, it's not like they can get much worse.
