Okay, I was more focused on the part where you said the city shuts down and I thought you were saying Indianapolis doesn't even realize that the event is happening. It's obviously very huge locally
I don't think it's something that people block off on their schedule, but 350,000 people will be there so it's obviously popular. It's just not as exciting or brief as the Derby Derby letting you have an excuse to wear fun hats is a major advantage
I found the last couple of laps of a lot of car races really entertaining. They should just skip the first 2 hours though
Can't believe how popular F1 became in America considering it's the most boring thing I've ever seen. I guess turning it into a soap opera was all it took
My grandpa loved any kind of auto racing. I never really got it. I'll watch like a Browns-Jets game for 2 hours though
There's almost no overlap between people who enjoy F1 and people who enjoy drive to survive That said, I recently went to the Japanese Grand Prix and it was the single most boring sporting event I've ever attended. It was like a top 10 most boring F1 race ever and that's saying a lot
I tried watching a race one time early on a Sunday and that one guy that always wins was in first after like 2 turns so I stopped watching. He did end up winning.
they've successfully convinced many people that a battle for 7th place in the team competition is compelling. I only get into it when the top 3 are in doubt. I often skip a large section of the middle of the race
nascar used to be fun to follow when i was growing up. loved jeff gordon and his homosexual agenda car. his jurassic park car that he ran roughshod over everyone at the all star race in like 1998 or something was a memorable sporting event for me as a kid
To clarify, Stone Cold Steve Austin ’s mom and I sent him to a camp that would make him gay. Worth every penny
The Indy 500 was a top five US sporting event until Days of Thunder came out at roughly the same time cable greatly increased the amount of live sports on the air. Before that, Indy drivers were the celebrities in the US outside of the confederacy. The Derby is about betting, peacocking and drinking. The event itself is basically the first commercial break of the Super Bowl in importance.
What I do feel strongly about it that people who use the Ring app are fucking idiots. Fireworks or gunshots on the Fourth of July is king but today I saw a bunch of posts about what was obviously the Braves flyover. These mouth breathers thought we were getting invaded.
I mean having one of those doorbells in general. My dad has one and his phone goes off if a dog runs by
I didn’t have a hardwired doorbell so it was ring or bust. I thought it would chill my dog out from barking when people knock on the door but now she goes bananas if she hears the ring music on tv.
Nascar blows now. Peaked in the 90s-early 2000s. The good racing is dirt track racing with some Busch Lattes watchin piece of shit cars tear the shit out each other.
Racing was good in the 90s and early 2000s. Can't put my finger on what has killed the leagues but I want to say technology has made it where you can measure everything and maximize potential to where there's so little variance but I'm not sure if that's 100% the reason
i watched nascar for the first time during Covid bc I was so damn bored, devine who was it that we adopted as our driver and he always seemed to come in 2nd?
There's also a ton of aerodynamic influence in NASCAR(and it may be similar in open wheel) where when you're behind someone it displaces the air to a point that it's difficult to create downforce and thus, very difficult to pass someone... which makes for very bad racing
NASCAR attempted to fix it with their latest car that has a diffuser on the bottom of the decklid but has had middling results
Car companies also don't have the same incentive they used to to pour money into NASCAR with the shift toward hybrid/electric cars
Diffuser just breaks up the air coming off the back of the car. Without it you have more "dirty air." You can essentially aerodynamic "block" a guy by driving in his line in turns where the air doesn't hit the front of their car or less air does which affects the grip of the car. More grip= faster
There is a good sport somewhere to be had in racing but nepotism and the advantaged have killed it, especially NASCAR. It used to be guys from working class families who built their own car and eventually worked their way up. Now it's just rich kids who's parents can afford the time and money for them to race. And they all have zero personality