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Who's to blame?? Well the decline started after Earnhardt was killed in 2001. In my opinion, the sport was at it's zeneth and lost it's biggest star. Sure there was interest after (but for all the wrong reasons) and then Sept 11 came. Soon after all the tracks started limiting what you could bring into the stands (after many of us purchased items you could bring in). Then they brought in Toyota, which for many was a big slap in the face. Soon after came the COT, the Chase, the loss of the varieties of tracks, and all these rules for the cars to where it is like IROC now. Many of the fans that were there in the 80's and 90's basically lost interest and those that jumped on the band wagon probably went to a couple of races and decided it was too boring and left. So unless they can bring back people from the dead (which I don't see happening) and change the cars to be more brand identic, it will only get worse. I understand all the safety stuff, but they could have done it to the old cars and made them all brand identic like they were. Now i think people could care less about ford vs chevy vs dodge vs toyota. Keep up the good work Brian.