@psychedalex68 Why is it a bad thing? It’s a racing series. Let them race.
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Remind me again why Cup guys in O'Reilly and Trucks is a good thing?
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@NateMetaX @dennyhamlin @jeff_gluck So every team in the NFL should show each other their playbooks?
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@dennyhamlin @jeff_gluck and why should one nascar team know more about something than the next? That’s not a sport
Equal playing field, the driver and teamwork wins the race
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From the Gluckcast today, Spire Motorsports owner Jeff Dickerson had some strong comments in defense of his team in the JGR/Gabehart lawsuit.
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@awfulannouncing Just simply doing something and doing it at an elite/athletic level are two different things.
Comparing driving a car on the street vs racing is like comparing throwing a ball in your backyard vs playing a competitive game. Plus, street cars vs race cars are apples & oranges.
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Stephen A. Smith: Golfers and NASCAR drivers are not athletes awfulannouncing.com/racing/stephen…
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@TommyJoeMartins @RacingBattle Yup.
My idea is 4 points for stage winners, 2 points each for 2nd-5th, 1 point each for 6th-10th
Its still a nice bonus, but not race altering
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Stage points reward inconsequential performance. Running 7th on lap 45 shouldn't score points. Only award stage winners 5 points and bring back drama to late race mistakes. It skews the standings away from the ACTUAL RACE RESULTS. Nobody cares who led Q1 of a football game.
NASCAR Insights@NASCARInsights
@ryanpistana Here's a look at the current standings vs the standings without stage points factored in in O'Reilly
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@RaceDay_Report @__youre_annoyin This is patently false. Every major sport in America over the last quarter century has seen similar declines except for football.
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Recent Spring Bristol viewership numbers:
2026 – 1.945M
2025 – 2.054M
2024 – 3.809M
2023 – 3.450M
2022 – 4.007M
2021 – 3.114M (delayed)
2020 – 2.932M
2019 – 2.806M
2018 – 3.686M (delayed)
2017 – 2.200M (delayed)
2016 – 5.456M
2015 – 5.100M
2014 – 7.300M
2013 – 7.519M
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@bobo103nyc @PPistone And now you have google. And outside of prime, everything else is a part of a basic cable package. And prime? Take’s about 30 seconds to download and start watching.
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To follow up our TMD conversation about NASCAR airing on different TV outlets - in 2000 the Cup Series aired on 7 different channels (CBS, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNN TBS and NBC) - people found those telecasts - not sure why for some it’s hard to find where things air in 2026
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Somewhat. Going to a much more legitimate championship format has helped tremendously but still got unlimited GWCs which is silly and 2 fake cautions getting thrown every race
r/NASCAR on Reddit@NASCARonReddit
Is NASCAR starting to feel like a serious sport again to everyone else or is it just me? (via u/US_Highway54) reddit.com/comments/1skcw… #NASCAR
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So basically the Clash on Monday night means all of NASCAR Speedweeks except Tuesday would have night racing at Daytona in 2027 if this holds true
Chris Myers@The_ChrisMyers
It could be a good thing for NASCAR’s Clash to return to Daytona.. could see it run to start the week of the Daytona 500.. maybe even race a Monday night prime time slot! #nascar
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@lmm2996 Ive never had an issue with it.
Cup teams in these series have always been more of a problem than cup drivers.
Open the series up for all drivers, let em earn points, cut cup teams participating, have more stand alone events. The problems will take care of themselves.
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Is it me or have we seen somewhat of a shift when it comes to how people view cup regulars running in the lower series. Feels like around 10-15 years ago mostly everyone hated seeing them drop down to run but now its sorta split....
Idk...that's just what I've noticed lately
Jeff Gluck@jeff_gluck
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@psychedalex68 Tbh thats what makes him the perfect substitute driver in some team’s eyes. He keeps the car clean and has a squeaky clean image for whatever sponsor is already with them.
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Allgaier has literally done nothing but warm that seat. I stand by that he's the worst Cup substitute driver ever.
Bob Pockrass@bobpockrass
Justin Allgaier, as announced a few weeks ago, is in for Bowman at Bristol, which is one of Allgaier's best tracks. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Allgaier finishes top-10 and even challenges the leaders. Bowman won a pole there last year. Granted more hp and new tire.
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@AlextheAdm1ral Id be ok with 4 points to the stage winner, 2 points for 2nd-5th, 1 point for 6th-10th
That makes it true bonus points. Instead of race-altering points
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I get that a lot of people don't mind, if not affirmatively like, stage points. However, their primary utility was to soften the blow a bad Playoff race could have in the brutally unfair Playoff format. Now that we have an OG Chase, awarding up to 20 midrace points is unnecessary
SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Ch. 90)@SiriusXMNASCAR
#NASCAR's Brad Moran weighs in on the stage caution conversation ⬇️ ⏱️ "We certainly didn't like how long it took us at Martinsville. We're aware of it for sure, and we'll work with the broadcast partners to try and minimize it the best we can." More → sxm.app.link/NASCARIntervie…
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@ROWDYNATION_8 FOX is using the sport to grow the FS1 channel. And it’s always the most watched event on FS1, so that’s all they care about unfortunately.
That’s why they’ll occasionally move Trucks to FOX and keep Cup on FS1.
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I’m curious what the number would’ve been if it was on big fox instead of little fox
Adam Stern@A_S12
.@FS1 got 2.394 million viewers for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series @CookOut 400 @MartinsvilleSwy, roughly flat to the downside from 2.422 million last year.
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@iBeButlerr I don’t think stage racing is as untouchable as you think it is. We all thought the same with the playoffs. I can easily see it gone next year.
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NASCAR already said they're not doing away with stage racing, so the only compromise to this would be to keep the race green after a stage ends.
There's no reason to throw a yellow after a stage ends, and TV can still run their dumb little commercial breaks after them, but there's no reason to take race time away from the drivers and fans with stage cautions.
Jeff Gluck@jeff_gluck
.@dennyhamlin on Actions Detrimental calls for changes to caution length: "We're running too long under caution. We have to find a way to shorten them up, but we won't shorten them up as long as we're doing what we're doing in the sense of 'TV has to catch the pit stops live.' OK, well then you've got to shorten your commercials or something. ... (O'Reilly) especially, I'm telling you my experience as a watcher: It was a single-car wreck, there's not debris on the track, there's no clean-up to be had, and it's just yellow...yellow...yellow. I'm like 'CHOOSE ALREADY!'" He acknowledged TV needs commercials during the cautions to run a business, but "to me, it's hurting the watching experience."
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@rayzecornbred2 @theJoshRey @GOWENYT It was 100% because of commercial time. That’s why NASCAR experimented with heat races & the caution clock the year before they started stage racing.
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@theJoshRey @GOWENYT no. commercial time hasnt changed.
before stages people spent years constantly bitching about commercials under green. we spend alot more time on green flag racing now than we used to
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@BiggelsTV They considered getting rid of stages over the offseason according to O’Donnell. I bet they do next year.
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Why is getting rid of stage cautions not realistic? Tv still runs a shit load of commercials during green flag laps. Why are we married to them? What are they helping? I can tell you what they’re hurting. Is NASCAR terrified of a race going green all the way? What is it?
Dirty Mo Media@DirtyMoMedia
19 caution laps between stage end and green flag in Martinsville. 😦 Is it time to consider a change?
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@BiggelsTV Maybe the caution clock wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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@LAW9960 @ChampagneRacin Maybe too much
20th place driver shouldn’t be able to earn more points than the 2nd place driver.
Plus, for me, I don’t really care where someone is running at a two random points in the race.
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@ChampagneRacin It rewards drivers for consistently running up front so no
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How bout we just get rid of stages as a whole. It ruins the purity of the sport
Dale Earnhardt Jr.@DaleJr
@jeff_gluck @dennyhamlin He's right. It's also chewing into the next stage and shortening up those parts of the race: taking product off the shelf.
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Stage cautions need to go next year. We took a huge step in adding legitmacy back to the championship now its time to do away with the stages.People bitch about long runs with stages already. If you cant handle long green flag runs you ain't a true race fan.Its part of it
Noah Lewis@Noah_Lewis1
In time with media today, Darrell Waltrip said he’s not sure if he likes the way races are run in NASCAR today, but he still watches. “I think the sport’s gone through a transition since the days that I raced. You dropped the green flag and you ran to the checkered. Now they got all these different stages… “I’m not sure I like it the way it is. But, I watch.” Full interview scrum below: #NASCAR
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