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I gotta see some of this 😩.

If your old school raise hell and praise dale, I wouldn’t bother watching. This is a gimmick race to attract new fans, LA, a DJ. Clearly are going after a new crowd. Outside of all of that I think think it could be entertaining

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I got a preview this morning, it was compared to a turtle race, I've not seen any for a long time, probably be a snoozer, but what the hay, every one's entitled, right 😀

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Seen a twitter of a couple laps of four cars, Blaney, Elliott among the four. Looked like Old Burg that got dry slick. You could ride a good bike around the corners faster. That being said, I'll check it our.

Could be kinda like watching reruns of Lawrence Welk 🤔.

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Like it or not, card well played by NASCAR. The Super Bowl is there in LA next weekend and they also have us talking about it on IOW. The whole deal/series is a gimmick. It goes w/o saying. Gimmicks will get the ratings and the short term gain. Let us see where the long haul leads them with gaining fans.

Us.... we have bigger fish to fry: The No Way Out debacle, the new wingless series to combat USAC, losing Plymouth Speedway to (back to) pavement.....

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I watched practice this morning on FS2. It was decent given the circumstance. I would think once the heat races and Clash start tomorrow it will be ok all things considering. They practiced in 3 groups and each group had three 8-minute sessions. It wasn't as bad as I intially thought it would be given the track is flat with only 2.5 degree of banking. It did have this local short track feel to it except for being in a large stadium. Going to be some beating and banging for sure. A lot of people have been wanting them to go back to more short tracks. Maybe this is a start. Along with the re-building of the old North Wilksboro Speedway that is getting a huge facelift that is helped in part by the North Carolina government that granted them $18 million for the project.

The one thing that intrest me the most is the thought of the USAC Silver Crown cars racing at North Wilksboro on the same card with the NASACR Whelen Modified Tour once the major facelift and re-building is done on National TV or on FloRacing. :D:D

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Practice to me was encouraging, it was clear that at times they were playing nice and letting the faster car by, But there were some move em out of the way moments, and they increased almost three seconds from the start of practice to the last practice for 68mph avg. With eleven cars on track each practice it was doable. we'll see how 26 work out in the feature.

I's a heat, consi and feature format, so I'll give it a chance.

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October 11, 1945 URA midgets had 55,000+ spectators show up for a show at the Coliseum , Ed Haddad won the feature. Will NASCAR out draw that show?

Word from those who still draw a paycheck from Nascar, hardly no one has a backup car yet, due to parts shortages or whatever, some are even thinking of running the xfinity car this weekend so to have a good car to start Daytona with, the pandemic strikes racing also, some have a partial car that could be used if the car that is ready can be used for parts.

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I agree and have heard much of this, but no way they would let them run an Xfinity car. I will also not argue the RESPONSE to the pandemic effected their supply chain BUT the whole thing about adding this new car in NOW, is the major reason (they all had PLENTY of the old cars around). BUT they did delay it a year, so give them that.

Does everyone know who is building this new car now? Former open wheel racer Ronnie Johncox...

https://www.mlive.com/public-interes...to%20celebrate.

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Thank-you for pointing this out! I knew Super Cross ran there but didn't know about all this...

https://www.autoweek.com/racing/nasc...g-la-coliseum/

Thanks, I still have a few friends who still get a paycheck from Nicecar as one still refers to them, was a crew chief for several years, funny thing about it was, several of us ran karts for years before any one went on up the ladder 🪜.

Thanks, I still have a few friends who still get a paycheck from Nicecar as one still refers to them, was a crew chief for several years, funny thing about it was, several of us ran karts for years before any one went on up the ladder 🪜.

It’s better than I expected so far. I don’t pay much mine to napcar anymore but I do like that the cars resemble real cars more and they’ve finally came out of the 1900’s with some of the tech. Still won’t make me watch anymore than usual.

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I watch because other than family, nothings going on on Sunday afternoons and several former and current non wing sprint and midget drivers are in it and last year, other than Elliott, it was a battle between em with Larson, Bell, Briscoe, Stenhouse, Newman at times, Also watched the dillon boys run LM's some

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Against better judgement I just turned it on and the first thing I saw was a red and white car blatantly take our another car. The moron announcers then said hey you either want to make the race or not and this is short track racing and this stuff goes on every Saturday night.

I almost puked before I could get the TV shut off. I am so glad this is the first NASCRAP I have watched in over ten years, and although my Mother always told me never say never, I will never watch another second of it again.

Nothing to do on a Sunday evening so I put a pizza in the oven and tuned it in. It was better than I’d guessed until they got to that ridiculous half time show… about 5 seconds was all I could stomach. Off it went.

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Noticed Nascar is using a: heat race, semi feature(s), feature format. Does anyone know if this is the first time that they have used this race format? Maybe they are noticing the increasing interest in circle track racing and trying to incorporate elements.

It was ok. Seeing a lot of tweets etc by folks on the NASCAR payroll saying how great it was. Really? Eh

Bring on Volusia and Bubba

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At least since they started running Trucks at Eldora...Cup did it at Bristol last year...

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Make sure you stay far far away from a TV next Sunday night. The Super Bowl half time show inspired by Shawn Carter (goes by "Jay-z" to some) will make this look like the PG version it was...none of it is wholesome, but Ed Sullivan didn't think Elvis, The Doors, etc were either...the bar has been lowered and lowered and the impact "Ice Cube" had on it was THIRTY+ years ago...the only thing that anyone can ever hope for is the people in charge see the hypocrisy in what they advocate for and then what or who they ban (like Larson) for doing/saying the same thing the people they prop up do...seems its a losing battle...but I respect your choice to turn it off. I enjoy NASCAR radio on the radio and I barely heard either "Acts"...

I'll have to admit to watching it, I think I'll have to hold my opinion till I see them on the big track, I wonder if some were protecting their cars, it's not like the old days when you had plenty of cars, and you could give up one, or more, it was all about the show, the Entertainment could have been dropped, but it was a way to get the cars serviced, my wife made a comment that it wasn't very exciting, the racing, I guess it satisfied the company, lots of people in the stands, don't know what the price was, but I don't have any stock in it, so whatever, I wasn't going to watch the Olympics, and I had finished my nap been to the grocery store, every 3 days it's a banana run, and to HD for drain strips, so it was a somewhat productive day. Oh, and more nibbles!

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I thought it was a lot better than expected. I got up and made dinner while Iced Vanilla Tee or whoever was singing same as I will at the Superbowl but did notice a lot of young people in attendance and quite honestly they had a hell of a crowd.
The racing was short track racing with passing and yet we're on here bashing everthing Nascar. I myself don't like what Indycar has become. Virtually not ovals but I don't bash it. I either watch or I don't.

You may not be able to see this but it's a great guy who loves people and racinga and is wise words. AND THINK If NASCAR, INDYCAR or F1 didn't exist. how many racers that you know and love would have ever got into racing in the first place. IT's a GOAL you can like it or not.

https://www.facebook.com/613516941/v...94306677555279

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I listened to the heats on the radio and watched the main event on TV. When they announced this race, I thought it was going to be a crash fest. I was pleasantly surprised by the racing. Other than one of the B mains, the drivers did a good job of racing the track and each other.

Was it the most exciting race in the world? No. Did it have great battles for positions? No. Was it interesting to watch on TV? Yes. Did it do what NASCAR wanted? Yes.

I think with the special events like this are to make them special. When the Brickyard was announced, everyone was excited, but after about 3 years of it everyone realized the racing was not very good. The Bristol Dirt race is shaping up to be same experience. The Race of the clash is already in this situation. Once the newness and excitement wears off, the race needs to stand on its own. There is no way that the race can stand on its own.

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THAT, 99, is a VERY good point. I never really thought of it in that context.

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Everyone always says NASCAR needs to return to its roots. Running a quarter mile is very much that. Running it in a historic venue that has held Olympics, World Series, Super Bowls, Evel Knievel jumps, and major college football games is pretty cool. They didn't tear up as much stuff as they do at Daytona. (Only 3 cars finished 2 years ago) I thought it was pretty entertaining. I saw a lot more young fans than I have seen at a race. Whether we like it or not they are the future of our sport. As for the halftime entertainment, it wasn't what I would have picked. Of course my kids and grandkids don't listen to what I do. Probably has to due with me being 59 years old. My parent's didn't listen to the same stuff I did. With not much going on, I would bet the ratings were good. California is like the 6th biggest economy in the world, so that probably made sponsors happy. Also being in the same area as next week's Super Bowl, I am sure brought extra attention. Sorry, I don't see the negative.

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I enjoyed it. It was a good race. Just wish my favorite driver Ryan Blaney would not have been taken out early.

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My favorite too along with Briscoe.

I'll have to say I learned a lot about the new car, I had no idea what was the next generation car, I hadn't followed the change at all, after reading about it yesterday, I understand some of the problems that occurred, and I now have a better understanding about a lot of questions I had, now to see it at Daytona will answer more questions, in my opinion, it proved itself on a short track, but what will happen on a really fast track.

I have less I interest in feetball than I do in nascar, shouldn’t be a problem. But thanks for the heads up.
And I live in Cincinnati

Cars were cool i thought but the event was hokie imo. Now they can come to a high school near you and hold an event, lmao 🤣

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They already do that at Bowman-Gray Stadium with lower series.

BG is a cool place but big wheeled mods are a different beast than Cup cars. I am wanting to see racing not a WWF made for TV gimmick.

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The only point of about any (imagine there are some that don't care) race series, promoter, track owner, etc is to sell tickets/get ratings for their ENTERTAINMENT product...

Bill White was born this day in 1897. In the mid-1920’s, the man nicknamed “Hollywood,” owned “big cars” driven by Leon Duray and Jack Petticord. He won the Indy 500 in 1927 with dirt track specialist George Souders in the 90 cubic inch Dusenberg powered Duesenberg. Others driving for White at Indy included Shorty Cantlon and Elbert “Babe” Stapp. In 1931, Bill had a new Miller chassis and installed a new 220 cubic inch Leo Goossen/Harry Miller built engine for Hall of Fame drivers Francis Quinn and Ernie Triplett and the AAA Southwest championship. In 1932, the car was numbered 1 and dubbed the “Red Lion Special.” Triplett drove it to another title. They had much success until Triplett’s passing in 1934. Bill would take over promotion of what he named Ascot Motor Speedway after the American Legion Glendale Post dropped their support. He operated it for 18 months before closing after the deaths of his formers driver Al Gordon and Spider Matlock. His involvement as an Indy car owner continued with often multiple cars in the field through 1947. He was associated as either a builder and/or a promoter with three different speedway in Gardena, California: Carrell Speedway (1940), Gardena Stadium (1954) and Ascot Park (1957). His 250-lap midget race on August 17, 1946 at the Los Angeles Coliseum drew over 65,000 fans.

From two days ago in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum

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All things considered I thought the racing it self was decent. The new nex gen car seems to race well. Didn’t care for the 2 music acts, then again it’s not anywhere close to my type of music.
To bad the races wasn’t at Bowman Gray now that would have been interesting to see :D. Personally I think they need to be at more short tracks.

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It started moving toward WWF with stage racing and playoffs. Now that Jimmie Johnson is gone I'd like to see a season the old way, nonstop races and straight up season points for the champ.