asked what track operators, NASCAR and TV networks needed to do to make your experience as a race fan more enjoyable and keep you coming back and you answered.
There were many suggestions. I selected 10 key items for the NASCAR Fan’s Bill of Rights. Ticket prices aren’t mentioned because tracks are lowering those. Plus, amendements can always be added to this. Check out the link to the Bill of Rights and let me know what you think there (or here) and if anything needs to be added.
This was done as part of our preseason package on how this is “The Year of the Fan” in NASCAR. The point is that in no recent time is the fan’s voice as important and has as much power as this year…Â More info
NASCAR’s track attendance and revenue may be stalling, but top drivers’ paychecks continued to climb last year, thanks to large, multiyear sponsorship deals and heavy spending on apparel and gear by loyal fans. Overall, earnings for the top 10 drivers were $180 million, up 4.7% from our previous list.
Winning is not always the most important factor to making money. Top drivers generate between 8% and 31% of their earnings from the track. The rest comes from salary, licensing and sponsorships…Â More info
It’s not the silence from the speedway — the peace and quiet is nice enough, here in the middle of Speedweeks.
The trouble is, today — with the Shootout crowd gone and the larger crowds for the qualifying races and the Daytona 500 still to come — is too strong a reminder of day-to-day Daytona Beach, when the races aren’t in town.
This isn’t exactly Margaritaville down here, and driving up and down the beach highway, A-1-A, is hardly a pleasure cruise. Daytona Beach and its suburbs aren’t exactly boomtowns. They are weary, faded, salt-corroded.
So I’ve drifted back down to the south, to my hotel in Port Orange, to blog with my sliding-glass door open, to see and hear the endless sea, which eases the sadness of workaday Daytona…Â More info
Scott Speed knows he’s going to have to put up with a lot of abuse and criticism in his rookie season this year – from fans, from other drivers. And the former Formula One driver is prepared to take it.
“It’s my spot to,” Speed said. “I’m a rookie by huge standards. I’m learning a lot. These guys all have a lot more experience. They’re a lot better than me. It would be stupid to go in there and not take some stuff because some guy cut me off or put me up high. It is my time. I need to learn. When I get good and I’m fighting for championships it’s going to be a different story.”
Fighting for a title was what Speed was doing in October in the final ARCA Series race of the year at Toledo when he was taken out by the driver trailing Speed in the points, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. …Â More info