Darrell Waltrip Doesn’t Hold Back and Warns NASCAR About Making Too Many Changes and Losing Fans
“I think what we’re seeing is people that are managing the sport, running the sport, that maybe aren’t old school, that haven’t been around as long as we have,” Waltrip said during a recent interview on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “I think they look at the sport differently. I always think about what Bill France Jr. told me. He said ‘We can do whatever we want to, but we have to put on a show.’ Sunday was all about the show. That was his philosophy.”
‘I think that’s what we’re going to see for a while,” he said. “And maybe they’ll come up with a formula where some things last longer than others, but I like moving around. I like moving the All-Star Race around. I like moving things around, giving people a different look at what we do, and that maybe never get a chance. Go to different towns. Go to different tracks. I don’t see anything wrong with that. I don’t think we have to be married to the schedule that we’ve been married to all these years. I think moving things around and trying something different is good for the sport, and I think it’s good for the fans. I think the drivers are really buying into it.”
“I think about that Car of Tomorrow,” Waltrip said of the car that debuted in 2008. “Introduced that thing. That was going to level the playing field and make everybody equal. And that thing didn’t last too long. And now we’ve basically thrown away the car that we’ve raced for 50 years. Every piece. Not a piece off the car other than the engine works on this new car and so it’s like starting with a clean sheet of paper, starting from scratch. I think we have to be careful making too many changes at one time. You’ve got to work on the car and that’s going to take a little while before the drivers get comfortable with that.
“We got a schedule that’s looking a little bit different. SMI is buying up racetracks. There’s a lot going on. I think we’ve got to be careful not to do too much to get the fans confused and lose our focus. I like a lot of things we’re doing. I think those are important and I think they’re necessary but I think we have to be careful not to overload the fans and the media and everybody else with what we’re doing.”
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