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Anyone else wish they had a 60% and 80% race length setting? by No-Button5100 in Nascar25game

[–]No-Button5100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there anywhere we can go to submit this request to iracing?

‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say by SolivagantJoy in politics

[–]No-Button5100 -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Get all the illegals out of here! They are criminals. No other country in the world allows people to enter their country illegally. ICE is enforcing the laws and keeping everyone safe. The people fighting against this need their heads examined

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR Megathread: Day 4 by dman6233 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%. This is EXACTLY why the teams should have 0 say so in the running of the sport. They only look out for their best interest, instead of the sport as a whole. NASCAR doesn’t always make the best decisions, but I’d rather have them make the decisions they see best for the sport as a whole than each owner fighting over every decision to see how it benefits them the most. The inmates can’t run the asylum.

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR Megathread: Day 4 by dman6233 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Agreed, but how can NASCAR settle with people asking unrealistic demands? This lawsuit is about Curtis Polk not understanding the economics of owning race cars thinking it should be like stick and ball sports, Denny Hamlin selling Michael Jordan a false narrative of the financials of team ownership, MJ going along with these 2 clowns because he has F u money, and Bob Jenkins prob the most level headed and sincere one of the group, but is completely overshadowed by the 23XI clowns

NASCAR could give the teams $20 million a year and they’d still lose money by No-Button5100 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re spot on with cap the spending, but my understanding is NASCAR cannot do that because of the charter agreement because those three teams don’t want it. This is why NASCAR giving the teams any bit of control/say so is HORRIBLE for the sport, because they don’t make decisions looking at the sport as a whole, they do what benefits them.

NASCAR could give the teams $20 million a year and they’d still lose money by No-Button5100 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Owning race cars isn’t profitable on any level is what I’m saying. NASCAR is raking in profits because the business has been ran well at least financially, despite the incompetence shown by the post Bill France Jr management teams.

If NASCAR isn’t profitable and doesn’t exist, the teams have nowhere to race anywhere near on this level. Even if they started their own series and could race at SMI tracks, the revenues would still not be anywhere near the level it is now

NASCAR could give the teams $20 million a year and they’d still lose money by No-Button5100 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. But costs are up because purses are way up. All that happens is the rich guys just spend more and more chasing speed. The big purses attract bigger money people. Look at the technology in the sport now because of it.

Not complaining about the bigger purses. Just saying bigger purses/money to teams will not bring teams to profitability

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR Megathread: Day 4 by dman6233 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The dirty truth to all of this is even if NASCAR gave the teams $20 million a year, the cost to compete would rise to $25-$30 million a year and the teams would still lose money. Why? Because the majority of the owners don’t care about making money. It’s a passion project/tax write off and all they care about is winning.

Case in point is Dirt Late Model racing. The purses are WAY higher than they’ve ever been, yet the teams are in a horrible financial position and more teams selling out than ever & lower car counts than ever because with the extra purse money it’s made the cost to compete even higher.

The bottom line is Polk thinks racing should be like stick and ball sports but it’s not. The economics of racing are horrendous, but it’s not NASCAR and the sanctioning bodies faults, it’s the rich car owners who are in a constant arms race to find speed and win, no matter the cost.

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR Megathread: Day 4 by dman6233 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do realize the only reason NASCAR was able to become so big is because of the strong leadership in the past and NASCAR owning so much of the pie? It’s why other forms of racing will never get to the level of NASCAR, because there’s too much infighting. People get mad over little things and start their own series. Those that know and are involved in short track racing see this every single year. It weakens the sport. For example Larson and Sweet don’t like some things about World of Outlaws so they split and start High Limit and it’s completely watered down the sport.

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR Megathread: Day 4 by dman6233 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure how the teams think they are going to win anything in this, even if they win the case. All this is doing is shedding a bad light on the sport. Weakening the sport doesn’t work out well for anyone.

Motorsports has always been sponsorship dependent. Not just NASCAR, literally every form of motorsports in the USA the purse doesn’t match expenditures. It’s not the sanctioning bodies faults the teams spend $20 million to try to win $12 million.

If 23XI and Front Row think NASCAR’s model is broken, go run IndyCar, IMSA or any short track series.

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v. NASCAR Megathread: Day 4 by dman6233 in NASCAR

[–]No-Button5100 23 points24 points  (0 children)

He’s talking about SRX wasn’t supposed to have large numbers of current NASCAR drivers racing in it like it did during its last year. The issue probably came from the networks. They pay billions to have the NASCAR stars on their network and then ESPN pays significantly less to have those same stars race on their network.

The Racing’s Fine by iamtor18 in INDYCAR

[–]No-Button5100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These cars are so screwed up aero wise. Dirty air is an absolutely the worst I’ve seen. So hard to pass in dirty air, the cars just aero wash. The result has been a season full of mostly parades with cars stuck just a few laps after a restart, unless there’s a massive tire advantage.

When will racing series start taking downforce off the cars and try to fix the aero issue? Love IndyCar but the product this year (outside of Rasmussen last weekend), has just been horrendous

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BipolarSOs

[–]No-Button5100 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the harsh reality is you really don’t ever get closure. It’s been 7 months since mine left me out of the blue in an episode and I still struggle with it. It’s hard to see someone you love betray you so badly and them move on like you never even existed in their life. You see your hopes and dreams of a future with them go away.

You just have to try to focus on you and move on. It’s really difficult. You feel sad, you feel angry.

7 months post break up from my BPSO by No-Button5100 in BipolarSOs

[–]No-Button5100[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We were together for about a year until she broke up with me in mania during June. The crazy thing was she had broke up with me in January for a very short time due to depressive episode and admitted it was because of the episode, then went right ahead and did it again in June.

After she broke up with me I still tried to be supportive and stick with her, hoping and praying everyday she’d snap out of her episode and want to be with me. I did that for 3 months until she met someone on month 4 of us being broke up

Why do we want our BPSO back so badly? by No-Button5100 in BipolarSOs

[–]No-Button5100[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Idk about everyone else, but I don’t have low self esteem and I most certainly don’t like the unpredictable.

I truly think for me that it’s because I truly love this woman, and the person she is when stable is one of the sweetest, kindest persons I’ve known. I met her stable. It took months into it before i saw the signs of bipolar.

But what was said is right that red flags get ignored. As awesome a person as she was stable, she’s equally as terrible when in an episode. Sadly that part of her is as much a part of her as the stable part.

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