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Attendance declines STUMP NASCAR. Really, well that's because they haven't been paying attention to the fans for quite a while now. Sounds like we all have about the same opinion - maybe NASCAR should be reading these comments. The racing on the track and being shown on TV is no longer worth the money or the time. Yep, Brian France got his "parity" with the IROC car, then instituted the stupid chase format so that everyone points races from the first race until the last 10. Since the 10 race crapshoot is run on the same 10 tracks, well, a smart crew chief figured out the system, the tracks are almost all alike in their configuration and we now have a waste of time for those 10 races, too. Go figure. If you're a 48 fan, I'm sure it makes you happy but for the rest of us, it results in "who cares".

I hate the multiple GWC junk at the end of each race. It takes all the strategy out of things and since NASCAR works to make sure there's a caution at the appropriate time, well, I'm with the person who said - can you say WWF!

They can't get real exciting racing going with the product on the track, so they have to create it. One of the media - I forget who now - actually said that it is NASCAR's job to "create" entertainment. If I want entertainment, I'll see a movie, what I want to see is a sporting event, not manufactured finishes.

I used to watch every minute of NASCAR programming - now I don't watch the prerace garbage, if its raining where I live, I have the TV on mute because the babbling in the booth has become ridiculous and I have to use my computer and listen to the coverage on the radio to actually know what is happening in the race and I can do other things around the house waiting for the last 20 laps when there might be racing that the TV broadcast MIGHT show me. We still have tickets to races, but over the last few years, we've sometimes made the decision that it was cheaper to ditch the tickets we'd already paid for than to spend the additional money to GO to the race.

Sorry, NASCAR, but you really screwed the pooch here with trying to attract the casual fan -- they aren't interested any more since it's not the current thing for the beautiful people to do and you ignored and disrespected the hard core fan for so long, that the product on the track no longer interests them. Oh yeah and on top of that, we have the code of silence where the broadcasters, drivers, owners can't say anything "negative" about the sport. What a joke. But then NASCAR's ownership and management (poor as it is), thinks the fans are too stupid to be able to tell when things are good or not all by themselves.

The empty seats and dropping ratings tell that tale.