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That's the second year in a row an illegal car has won Texas (after Justin Wilson with Dale Coyne last year)!
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Perhaps you should expand on how you, an Australian, knows more about the American sporting landscape than multiple U.S. Posters? Go to a US hotel, pick up the newspaper they give you (USA Today) and then look at the sports section...The fact that you think viewing figures that are comparable with the NBA and MLB, nationally known drivers, and the amount of media coverage both the 500 and the Chase receives aren't enough to make it a national top sport in the U.S. is laughable at best.
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Here is a list of the most watched sports on TV in the US during 2012. The data is supplied by http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013...s-of-the-year/ The highest viewing figure achieved by IndyCar in 2012 was 6.8m and that was for the 500. |
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These days there is just about zero coverage in print or online media of the indy racing league. Unless you read a specialist publication like Autosport, which a few thousand might do in the USA, if that, or maybe the odd article on the soon to be dead Speed TV website or a rare article on ESPN, there is just no coverage at all. Indystar is about the only paper that reports on the irl. The irl just has no real public standing or interest out there and you just don't see it in the media. I think the big elephant in the room is that this is not the product people want to consume and partake in and that being the case, anything the speedway does is just turd polishing. The American people are not interested in an ugly GP2 car. Nascar IS professional motorsport in the USA. When you bring up motor racing in the USA to anyone in the public, this is what they think you are talking about 999 times out of a thousand. |
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I dunno have they? Who reads USA Today? Their whole business model revolves around hotels buying them for their frequent stayer programs dumped on the floor in front of people's hotel rooms. Most of them end up tripped over in the morning by guests and end up in the trash. How exciting.
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The champions of 'niche' sports don't get invited to the White House lawn every year. 'Niche' sports don't get prize of place on the major networks in America. 'Nuff said.
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I feel like it needs to be reminded to some people that the Indy Racing League(proper noun, capitals), hasn't existed since 2007.
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Well, clearly using the word "niche" has been a little inflammatory, particularly when I've attempted to back it up. So I'll say that "niche" is the incorrect word to use. Niche is a word that's better used to describe hillclimbs, drifting or anything ending with "khana". Maybe saying second, third tier comp, in terms of relevance, was better. So, before this potentially devastating handbag war blows all out of proportion, I've gone back to my original post #1184, and Paradise City's response #1185.
Originally I said "Motor racing, as a whole, is a niche sport/competition, and nascar is even further of a niche..." I'll use an even better word than the term 'second/third tier", and that is the word "alternative". Motor racing is an alternative sport. The popularity of it requires varying degrees of mainstream attention, but it's still alternative competitions. I'd like to point out that I said ""Motor racing, as a whole, is a niche sport/competition", but PC did not acknowledge this and chose the "Nascar isn't a little brother/no2" line. Speaking of PC, he responded by saying "NASCAR isn't a niche sport but a major national one in America". I would say that that's not quite right, I would replace the word "NASCAR" with "motor racing". Is motor racing big/popular in America? Yes. Is the popularity of motor racing a direct result of only Nascar? No. Nascar is the biggest motorsport series in America atm, so it enjoys the benefits of that. Media space, while having it's benefits, is just media space. Cultural/historical significance is another matter and nascar, as a series, is lower down the order. Quote:
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I think myself, as a resident of the USA, would know a bit more about the US sporting imagine than you, as an Australian.
NASCAR is not a niche sport. The rest of motorsport in the USA is, though. |
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f1champ, I think you're struggling to the point where your original point insofar as I can understand your original point at all is now meaningless.
NASCAR isn't a niche sport in the US and NASCAR is a category of motorracing or 'motorsports' as they prefer that term. That's just a factual statement. Guys like Petty, Foyt, Earnhardt and Andretti are big names of historical import and national recognition in sporting contexts. I'm not sure what convoluted definition of 'niche' you are operating from. Last edited by Paradise City; 14 Jun 2013 at 11:46. |
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Right, this thread is really going off topic and is becoming a bit of a slanging match. The thread's about IndyCar News & Rumours not an argument about whether NASCAR is a niche American sport or not. If that's what you want to discuss, I suggest someone start that thread on the NASCAR section of 10-Tenths.
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Proof is in the results of no real tv audience, struggling to maintain venues and empty or half empty stands. Also DRT, if you have information or your own opinion, feel free to add and lay out the case of all this supposed massive media coverage of the irl. Otherwise stop wasting my time with all your nagging petty personal jibes. |
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The Iowa heat races on Saturday 22 will be streamed live at 6:45 Eastern. Cool!!!
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