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I don't think it's just a "youth of today" thing; like it or not, everyone has more distractions to fill their time, and it's hard to be successful with something that demands people give up a whole afternoon every week. There are two likely ways this can go as I see it: change nothing and see the sport slowly drop from relevance until change is forced by lack of revenue or things just fall apart, or try updating aspects of the sport to suit a modern audience and take a chance that it will improve the sport's fortunes. I know this is a slippery slope and the worst changes in the past decade have been made under this reasoning, but race length is something that inevitably has to change IMO.

All people want to see is wrecks

The length of races is only a problem because the youth of today expect everything to be a available instantly, back when we were kids nothing was instantly accessible and if you wanted to know what happened and didn't have coverage, you either had to watch the news to see if something happened or, in the UK, wait until Motoring News was published on a Wednesday to read about it.

So if we had coverage, you were quiet content to sit there for 2-4 hours to take in the event. NASCAR could run 10 lap sprints each Sunday and the television audience wouldn't improve, the product isn't so much the problem, its only a symptom of a much larger social based change in habits. People get bored quickly now because there's always something more exciting to watch just a few clicks away.

I still think there is too much down force and they should cut the splitter and skirts off and go back to sending a ton of air under the car,but even i'm not naive enough to think that will fix NASCAR's problems.

Are long races really the problem? I enjoy watching enduros from other series as well as older nascar races. I don't think race length is the issue here unless if I'm missing something? It's just that everything sucks. The car, the commentary, the racing product, the drivers, etc are shit. At least crashes are a temporary moment of excitement.

Been confirmed fake.

Probably fake but pandemonium will ensue if this has any truth.

Probably related to the track's "Dual Banking" gimmick from its early years. Originally, the track had a 24-degree bank for stock cars and like a 6-degree bank below it, in an effort to attract champ cars. The dual-bank made the track real narrow and probably contributed to the track's struggles in its first two years.