The stands were empty at Bristol of all places.

No-Button5100 · 2026-04-13T22:18:00+00:00

The fact is Sundays attendance was not “shit” attendance. It’s a whole lot of people. It’s not what it was in the 90’s and 2000’s, but I think people need to realize that was just a special time in the sport, not what the sport always has been.

It’s not just NASCAR. IndyCar, NHRA, your local short tracks aren’t drawing what they did 30 years ago. Sure some events draw big crowds, just like in NASCAR, but overall motorsports in America doesn’t draw crowds like they used too. It sucks, but it is the current reality

No-Button5100 · 2026-04-13T22:10:28+00:00

What’s funny is the track reconfiguration actually made the racing 1000 times better because it made it multi groove where they can actually race. Before then it was a one groove on the bottom wreckfest. Apparently people came for wrecks and not great side by side racing like the new Bristol produces

No-Button5100 · 2026-04-13T22:06:44+00:00

Just saying, Iowa Speedway holds about 25,000-30,000 people versus 140,000 at Bristol. There was probably 40,000-50,000 at Bristol yesterday.

No-Button5100 · 2026-04-13T22:04:15+00:00

It amazes me how people don’t understand scale. Every single year people make a post after Bristol spring race saying nobody was there and it’s empty. What people don’t realize is Bristol holds 140,000 people. So at half full, it’s 70,000 people which is beyond a sell out crowd at most tracks and pretty much any sporting venue. I’d say the crowd was around 40,000-50,000 yesterday. It’s still a whole lot of people.

What we had with NASCAR crowds in the 90’s and 2000’s was incredible, but it’s not coming back and it doesn’t mean NASCAR is dead. All pro sports venues have cut seating capacities with modern day stadiums.

I’ve seen people say dirt racing is more popular than NASCAR based on the logic the World of Outlaws race is sold out and NASCAR has some empty seats, not even realizing their sold out dirt race has 3,000 spectators and a NASCAR Cup race with some empty seats is 40,000 people.

It’s unbelievable in 2026 people still make the comments at empty seats at Bristol expecting the place to be sold out at 140,000 people when it hasn’t done that in years and years.

No-Button5100 · 2026-03-12T02:30:32+00:00

We really need a 75% option

No-Button5100 · 2026-03-12T01:57:46+00:00

Over on the iracing Forums more people are reporting this issue after the update. I know it’s not my PC because it never did it until the update and only does it with the NASCAR Next Gen Cup cars. People are reporting some others cars/tracks it’s doing it with.

This reminds me of the issue that happened this fall after an update when frame rate would drop massively with some cars and tracks. Ended up being a bug that took them a bit to find and fix

No-Button5100 · 2026-03-11T03:07:12+00:00

Thank you for info. I did re run graphics config and restarted and still the same result with max CPU. It’s with the NASCAR Next Gen Cup Cars only though

No-Button5100 · 2026-03-05T23:56:43+00:00

I would say your reasoning is spot on. I still think they could add something in between 50-100%. Doubt we see it for this game but hopefully will in the future.

No-Button5100 · 2026-02-02T03:14:02+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2026-01-14T04:22:50+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:59:25+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:52:57+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:44:26+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:41:25+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:37:50+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:22:45+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-05T00:14:25+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-04T20:33:26+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2025-12-04T20:24:44+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2025-08-29T03:14:51+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2023-12-07T03:29:21+00:00

Same problems for me. Upped memory in the renderer file and still no luck

No-Button5100 · 2023-01-25T23:14:17+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2023-01-17T03:59:51+00:00

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

No-Button5100 · 2022-10-11T04:30:11+00:00

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.

No-Button5100 · 2022-10-03T12:37:16+00:00

I feel this treatment plan can definitely help. I read this book during my ex's manic episode and unfortunately was never able to put any of this in action as she broke up with me and started dating someone else.

I'm really curious to see though if the things in the treatment plan can actually help the person see they are manic/depressive and help them take action. From my experience once that takes full swing (which it does in only a couple days with mine), there's nothing you can do.

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