Great points. These days at home I am stunned by how many of my friends have kids who hate driving and don't do it. I am a retired man. My girls are 35 now. They started driving with me, lessons, at age 14. Then I got a Maxima with stick shift so they could do all their learning with a manual shift. It really, really helped them learn to drive well.
@randyhutchinson9910
7 жыл бұрын
ticket prices put the workin man and his family in the nose bleed seats
@fostbitten5721
6 жыл бұрын
I still love racing of all kinds. I dont go as much as i used to. Everybody wants to blame ticket prices for not going. Well that is a good part but, it is also increased hotel rates for race weekends, higher gas prices, traffic getting there not to mention track traffic. It is also easier to watch racing now than it was ever before. You can watch racing anywhere on your phone now. It is just not worth the hassle of going there anymore. Because you are not missing a thing thst happens visually at the track anymore. Nobody does stunts of any kind anymore. You cant make people come but, you gotta try to make people come.
@garymathews4875
5 жыл бұрын
I watched part 1 for the first time. I have been in racing for 45 yrs, use to own race cars. The price of racing stop me ,but still love racing. What Humpy is saying is true . We need someone to buy out NASCAR and put Humpy as president. This man knows racing, he would put racing back on TOP .
@jeromecannon7344
6 жыл бұрын
North Wilkesboro and Rockingham, that's what is wrong
@rumboldj1
7 жыл бұрын
Very Well said Humpy. Thanks for taking the time to explain ! I am a blue collar HVAC technician. I love to race but can't afford it anymore. I live in Wilmington NC. If you are ever in the area I would love to take you to lunch and talk you . Thank you!
@gman2013
6 жыл бұрын
You're absolutely right about rivalries! Why is WWF, WWE so popular? Rivalries! They draw huge crowds! People get excited!
@raymond3803
6 жыл бұрын
The problem with NASCAR is with people like YOU Humpy. Repaving Darlington, Kansas Charlotte and Texas just when those tracks were getting good.
@jasff69
6 жыл бұрын
Humpy, Why would I take my family to a race, which costs big bucks.... especially if you are making a whole weekend out of it and btw, losing a day's pay (Monday), to see (generally) one of seven drivers win?
@Stevonoles1
5 жыл бұрын
Millennial's will not sit down and watch a 4 hour race. Many sports have this problem. Even Harley Davidson can't sell to a younger generation.
@bradnutter4973
7 жыл бұрын
Timing had everything to do with the rise of NASCAR. There was the 1979 Daytona 500 and the snowstorm, and also at that time there was a sort of "car craze" (if that's the right term), where you had movies like Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, and TV shows like the Dukes of Hazzard. NASCAR fit right in with all of that. The past ten or fifteen years they've tried to take it to the Seinfeld crowd, and the Seinfeld crowd might have been curious for a short time, but they moved on to something else.
@heavymetalzombie9226
5 жыл бұрын
" stock cars " plain and simple
@mark_r49
5 жыл бұрын
The SUV is the current stock car.
@cole-trickle50
5 жыл бұрын
The day Dale Earnhardt Sr died was the day things ended as we knew it . Jr , Gordon , Stewart etc did a good job of keeping the sport afloat but now that they have all retired there is little personality left in the sport . Personality is something this sport has always had until now . They need that back . They need to go back to driving stock cars albeit safer stock cars . They need to reopen North Wilkesboro , Rockingham and Nashville Fairgrounds . Get rid of Fontana , Homestead etc . Take the sport back to its roots . Set caps on how much teams can spend . Make the sport more affordable to race teams . I read a great article about Jr and Kelly Earnhardt on how even they can only justify owning an Xfinity race team due to costs
@grinningg
9 жыл бұрын
Your all wrong! Technology and plus ever changing rules had ruined all forms of racing. You can ad in costs too!
@barryp472
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the your insight Mr Wheeler. Myself I agree with what bloodredsky24 said. I think that when they homogenized or made all they cars fit the same template they took away the STOCK CAR out of NASCAR. This removed a lot of rivalry between manufacturers.
@scott27288
6 жыл бұрын
Out of control costs, The Chase, trying to be "Hollywood" instead of down home, no real rivalries, too many rule changes week to week, half a dozen billionaires controlling the whole sport (engines, chassis, etc), having to be in an "alliance" with your competition to be able to race, moving races to places where most people have little to no interest in NASCAR, and quit bleeding the fans dry in ticket prices and souvenir/food sales. These are just a few things that are killing NASCAR today.
@howabouthetruth2157
5 жыл бұрын
AMEN.
@BCanterbury42
10 жыл бұрын
Go back to the simple days of the early 90's! When car owners weren't this multimillionaires, guys like Ed Whitaker & Ronald Cooper (1994 Busch Series, remember him?) could build a car, compete and go win races. Too many d--- rules too ..no stupid "lane changes" on restarts, yellow line rule, GET RID OF THIS crap that takes away from racing. Make it's a big free-for-all like it should be
@-j-morcelli
5 жыл бұрын
Allowing Toyota enter and fixed races for Joe Gibbs racing is the biggest reason I stopped following it.
@rdwrevitup
5 жыл бұрын
Yes! And Nascar allowed Toyota (who had never offered a pushrod engine in a stock automobile) to design an engine that incorporated the best of the both the Ford and Chevy engineering. How fair is that? I'll watch golf or college football/baseball over Nascar now. They've ruined a great sport for greed. Bow down before the almighty $$$$$$.
@toddpunter6190
6 жыл бұрын
remember that race in 79 it was great
@wendellstafford8447
5 жыл бұрын
The race wasn't that great, but everyone loved the fight that's all they remember.
@mark_r49
5 жыл бұрын
That’s 40 years ago!
@ServantofYaHi777
5 жыл бұрын
What killed NASCAR? Well , coming from a fan , my first race was at Talladega in 1988 , the first race I watched was the 79 Daytona Race and as a 8 yr old little boy I was hooked , Coming up my favorite driver was Cale Yarborough, he was a cool cat , but all the drivers in that day were manly men, not so much today. Then as I got older Dale became my favorite mainly because of what Humpy said in prt 2 , Dale was an example to young working class guys that if you have dedication an unbelievable work ethic and worked hard you could make it just like he did, whether that was racing or running your own body shop or HVAC comp. Back in the day the drivers didn't mind putting the bumper to you , now days it seems they're afraid they may break a nail. If you get where I'm coming from , man, they're was nothing like looking down coming out of four at Talladega coming to trial oval and those guys leaning on each other , and I mean when they come by you the wind the smell the sound , and by the time you look into one the cars beat your eyes there. Enough of memory ln there. Here is what I think has wounded NASCAR , 1, feminant drivers 2. the never rule changes 3. Never ending always reaching for something race format changes. 4. Restrictor plates 5. The Cars , they look like slot cars , 6 . Too much Fancy 7. I can't speak for any other track besides Talladega, but at Talladega the Police . The shift in the attitudes of law enforcement from the 90's to the late 2000's was 360° Who wants to spend 2 thousand dollars and get harrassed by the police everywhere you go , having to go through check points and crap like that , sticking there faces all up in your business trying to smell a little beer on your breath. At Talladega thats what people did , I understand they need to be there but they got out of hand at Talladega and they still may be it's been several yrs now since I've been . 8. The Cost , it used to cost 25 bucks to sit on the back stretch at Talladega, the last time I went it was 185 to sit in the ovhill s tower, which is a lot better seat , but was almost 100 bucks to sit on the back stretch 9. Tv/corporations everybody kissing the corporations buts, letting them dictate which is why we saw the influx of feminant drivers, they're are some evil evil turds sitting a top these corpsarations. 10. NASCAR abandoned its roots , its base for temporary money and fame . Humpy you are exactly right they left us ol red necks behind and so we left NASCAR .
@markbohannon6072
6 жыл бұрын
Would rivalries be more likely if we had fewer multiple car operations?
@andycornett9341
2 жыл бұрын
I know its an old video, but instead of getting better, Nascar has tried to go with the "Woke Crowd" . I was always a diehard fan , but I havent watched a Nascar race in two years or longer. I have started attending the local dirt tracks on saturday nights and the racing is much better anyway.
@charleskotary9714
7 жыл бұрын
Nascar offended there true fan base. They let the sponsors and tv neyworks pick the drivers and run the sport. Greed and technology ruined the sport. I'm 54 years old and have watched nascar since I was 4. Now I can barely finish watching a race.
@howabouthetruth2157
5 жыл бұрын
Yep. I'm 56 and I grew up loving NASCAR from a small kid. Never missed a season all those years & bought tickets to Daytona. I even quit watching NASCAR on TV, except for a few races, about 15 yrs ago.
@trhester1958
10 жыл бұрын
Do away with these multi car dynasty's and put a spending cap on these multi million dollar sponsorships.
@thirtywide
5 жыл бұрын
Well, Mr. Wheeler, it is now 2019 and in my 69-year-old opinion things have not improved a bit
@MrMan_47
6 жыл бұрын
Problem #12; Hard to have genuine competition when 5 guys own all 40 cars on the track. The "appearance" of competition isn't fooling us anymore!
@Go_for_it652
5 жыл бұрын
Please have a program with the informed commentary of Speed Channel to back up the race on a day to day basis.
@Ducksauce33
5 жыл бұрын
Humpy if you see this hope you come back to KZitem . I really liked your videos.
@brownsfan6447
5 жыл бұрын
Ducksauce gone from twitter too
@maxpower78-15
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Humpy. I think stage racing is terrible. What a bad idea.
Humpy, I agree with everything you said in part 1 and 2. You should take the reins from Brian France because it's obvious he does not have the passion for the sport as his father and grandfather did. I became a fan back in the late 80's while attending Embry-Riddle Univ. down in Daytona. We would work at the track during the race weekend just to be part of the excitement. I have been a loyal fan ever since, attending multiple races and rarely missing a race on television. It was not until the last year or so when I started loosing interest. What I miss the most about the racing is the classic Ford vs. Chevy battle. I never had a favorite driver; I always pulled for the Ford teams to beat the Chevy teams. The only reason I routed for Ford over Chevy was my first car being a 69 Mustang fastback. I have been loyal Ford fan ever since. The early NASCAR racing was like the classic Trans-AM racing of the late 60's and 70's. The problem today in my opinion is two things, Jimmy Johnson’s dominance for the last 10 years and Toyotas dominance of late. Nobody wants to see one driver dominate year after year and we defiantly don't want a foreign car manufacture take over an American pastime like NASCAR. Just because Toyota comes in with a boat- load of cash does not mean you should sell out the fans. I visited Daytona last year for the first time since I graduated college and was shocked when I visited the speedway. It looked like a Toyota dealership. The sport needs fewer races per year and more road courses. The mile and a half tracks are boring, and they ruined Bristol with the re-configure years ago. I turned my attention to IMSA Weather Tech series. It offers great racing with the GTLM class featuring the C7-R Corvette against the Ford GT on great road courses. Now that's entertaining racing. NACAR should start racing on some more of the great road courses this country has and drop some of the tracks they currently run twice a year. I will not return to NASCAR unless there are some drastic changes, which addresses these issues.
@robinaguglia30
4 жыл бұрын
driver access Dont have and dont say you do ,,sure if you want to pay 100 bucks for a pit pass maybe to see a driver if your lucky,,,
@drock9083
6 жыл бұрын
beer in the foreground lol
@diggerdanielg752
6 жыл бұрын
Have NASCAR events that the cars they are driving relate to what is in production. Not just a car body, but a real car. So what if the field goes 120 MPH, instead of 200+.
@sbourdondvm
6 жыл бұрын
The car. You miss the boat on the solution. If I want to watch formula racing I will watch F1, formula ford, indy. NOT formula NASCAR. Bring back stock cars.
@jeremycapron6431
6 жыл бұрын
So much this! That's why I like watching the old NASCAR cup cars. Knock the windows out, put a cage in them and go STOCK car racing.
@jeff393C
5 жыл бұрын
Amen!
@mark_r49
5 жыл бұрын
You can still see those at your local dirt track every weekend.
@lloydstewart3057
3 жыл бұрын
NASCAR lost a lot when they started getting into politics.
@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing political about human decency. Having Trump cars on track is political
@Bra160
6 жыл бұрын
1980s Nascar was good now it's a big pile of shit
@user-hb8be5wb4q
6 жыл бұрын
This man is what's wrong with NASCAR. No he did not cause any downfall. When BRUTON fired him, BRUTON lost the best promotor that NASCAR ever had. Humpy is/was the best at putting on the greatest show on tracks. BRUTON smith is the worst thing to ever hurt NASCAR. Oh, and the fact that NASCAR is going the way of country music(phew)!!!!!
@fa1509
3 жыл бұрын
bruton smith ruined so many tracks that did not need to come in the first place.
@sivvybee
6 жыл бұрын
Our kids might not have been into this stuff like we were. My generation were born in Big Block Chevelle's and Dodge Chargers. . The kids now are going through a second muscle generation though so I think it will come back.
@chadbrochill9945
5 жыл бұрын
The old muscle cars were affordable to the youth. The ones we have now are not. Your assumption is ridiculous
@jameswegman1256
5 жыл бұрын
Run "stock"cars, like you used to! Can't tell the make unless you can read the grill badge!
@rickey9590
6 жыл бұрын
I grew up with Nascar from 1979 its first TV showing.What has ruined it for me was loosing the old grew tracks N. Wilkesboro, Rockingham etc.and the old names of Nascar i.e. Grand National and the Winston Cup series.Except now Nascar lets anyone with enough money to buy and bribe their way in and change the name,its NOT or will never be "Monster " or " Infinity ".Its an insult to the fathers and old drivers of the Nascar sport when the announcers refer to the old races as the Infinity series instead of what it is " and always will be " Grand National " American cars Pontiac,Dodge, Chrysler,Oldsmobile, Ford Chevrolet made by the American people.Nascar allows Toyota to bribe their way in with their plastic life threatening japanese piece of junk cars that has the structural integrity of a brown paper bag that they now have to put 50 air bags in them which is now killing people because the rest of the vehicle is made of junk. Does an army tank need airbags ?,yea an exaggeration but you get the point.Then Nascar still has the nerve to call The Daytona 500 " The Great American Race ",with Toyota ? Not anymore.So Toyota is made in the US ? Big deal, you know how much of that money gets sent back to Japan.You're aware of noticed why you don't see the name on the Dodge truck "Dodge Ram " ? aside from the fact 80% of it is made with Japanese parts. Its because FIAT bought out Dodge,thats why you only see " Ram " on the truck. Wake up America,foreign companies are buying out American companies.
@jerryfoots5842
5 жыл бұрын
Damn Rickey, did all that just dawn on you?? Jeez, glad you finally woke up from your 30 year coma.
@MrMan_47
6 жыл бұрын
Problem #27: Does Toyota seriously think their Camry is competition for a ZL1 Camaro? This is just one of many reasons the public, especially car guys, can't take NASCAR seriously.
@maxpayne2574
5 жыл бұрын
It's just boring 2 laps crash 15 min later 2 laps crash cookie cuter cars cookie cuter cars Blaming PC culture is stupid they were never fans in the first place GREED killed NASCAR
@williamtuneberg7102
7 жыл бұрын
I do remember this when I was on Facebook making memes of the drivers I could not stand Jimmy Johnson I mean don't get me wrong he's a nice guy but I just don't know that's right to me it was fun
@dspina10
6 жыл бұрын
I think when they let Toyota in NASCAR all that did was piss off a lot of die hard fans. I don't know about you but when I think of a performance car I don't think of a Camry as a hot car.
@wendellstafford8447
5 жыл бұрын
Right when I think of muscle cars I IMMEDIATELY think of a Taurus or Lumina.
@jaymartin4166
5 жыл бұрын
Humpy, the cars are too easy to drive,pick up the horsepower and get rid of down force. Let the rookies whine,real driver's will come to the top.
@cuttnhorse2013
6 жыл бұрын
Heat racing don’t get it either! That’s when I stopped watching and attending races. Cost, no drivers that can carry the torch. Harvick is bout as close to Earnhardt these days that will race, do the job and fight if need be for what’s right or what he feels was wronged! I know there’s other talent out there, but NASCAR, has died,will it come back, can’t say, but the everyday person has all but gone. The prices,the cars, a lot needs to change. Why not let NASCAR go back like IROC. build 40 cars, when the teams get to the track on Friday, draw a number 1- 40, and say there’s your car for the weekend, make it go faster and handle better than your competitors! Because all the cars are the same, except maybe the engine! So they might be better off going back to IROC ! Thanks, Ronnie Lloyd
@wayneoverton2452
6 жыл бұрын
If it ain't broke don't be jackin with it! Big thinkers in the Nascar higharcy wanted to put their fingerprints on the success and started changing things. Fire those aholes and hit the reset button and put it back the way it was, apologize to the fans and never be screwing with it again. Don't mess with success!
@Brianrockrailfan
6 жыл бұрын
NASCAR GONE IN THE YEAR 2025 ?
@wtre428476
6 жыл бұрын
When they let JR win that one race in his dad's wrangler car...even the other drivers voiced concerns about trying to beat JR..they were scared to win...NASCAR was viewed as being fixed and not for the first time...
@dongarry5220
6 жыл бұрын
nascar,,1968,,great stuff,,,,nascar ,2015-16-17-18 ,,boring,''starless'',,expensive,,did mention boring!,,,bring on the [real] men of racing,,D.G. ONTARIO CAN.[40 YR. MEMBER]
@smokie4848
6 жыл бұрын
need the souther flag back too every track one could see the rebel flag im proud to be southern
@toddhebebrand9633
6 жыл бұрын
The sport has gotten so boring the cars r pretty much the same there is any out side the box thinking nascar has gotten to safe do what ever it takes to win.1 pit road speed just let them fly in and out of the pits2 cars chevys a Chevy fords Dodge no Toyota.if bring nascar back to the early 70s 80s.and r country is on the same path we to grow a spine thx
@jerryfoots5842
5 жыл бұрын
If it weren't for Toyota, Ford and GM would've pulled out of NASCAR eight years ago.
@MrMan_47
6 жыл бұрын
Problem #34; Dyed-in-the-wool Chevy guys switching to Ford because of corporate sponser money. (The love of money is the root of all evil)
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