Will there be a rival to NASCAR one day?

Question

NASCAR would be at risk of losing me as a fan is anyone ever starts a racing network (or league) of ACTUAL STOCK CARS.
No more of this restrictor plate crap..no more rules on which bolts you can use.
You prove that you purchased a car off the show-room floor...you follow the rules of taking all glass out of the car, etc. (for safetly reasons). You sign the waiver form and you're in. The biggest rule of them all: If you can get the motor to fit under the hood, you are legal. GO RACING!
Thats a race to watch. Nascar is just placing drivers in identical cars and telling them whoever happens to finish first on the last lap is the winner. Telling them they cant go under 150 mph or over 210 mph (or whatever the rules are).
they better figure it out before the rival racing league comes to town!

re: Fuel43
I love it when people start their answer with "um"..lol..it tips you off on the level of intelligence that follows.
ok..I will try to explain in more detail for those that might need it. (Sit up straight fuel43).
I didnt say i wanted to start the league, just asking the question if a new racing league would rival nascar.
The stock car part of the equation is that you actually buy a "stock car"...sorry I didnt explain that very well for ya.
I didnt say the cars needed to go over 210 mph. I only mentioned that nascar has plates to prevent their cars from going that fast.
Dragstrip=drag cars..not stock cars. I should have pointed that out in my question..silly me.
Its not my "dream league" or "fantasy league" or anything like that..it was a question.
I promise..I'm not actually starting the league and I'm not building a video game. If I do, I promise to research the idea in more detail than just posting a question on yahoo.
You go to the dragstrip 4 nights a week?

re: srjrfan.. great answer!..I hope you hit the lottery and get the idea off the ground..just send me some pit passes..ha
Dirt track racing on a national scale..that would be awesome! As you pointed out, nascar would come knocking as soon as the idea started taking off, and try to buy it out so someone would need to stand strong and turn down the money. Maybe we can contact Mark Cuban (Dallas NBA owner) on the idea...he has the money and the guts to go for it.
The tracks that have been thrown aside by nascar would jump on the chance to sign on with the rival league.

Answer 1

Man this is a great question. I really think that they need a rival. Up until they bought the competion, which was CASCAR, a seris in Canada, there could have been one in the short term future. That was actaully some very good racing.

I would love to see some one build a seris, go to all the tracks that NA$CAR has shunned off and start some real racing. Let the drivers be drivers and not robots. Have a rule book that is published, maybe even have some dirt track and paved racing. Change it up a little bit. I have a ton of other ideas, but not enough time to post them. Maybe one day we'll hit the lottery and a few of us can get together and do it.

Again, great question. I wish there were more like this on the board.

Answer 2

I hope so. I'd call it RAMSCAR. For Real Man Stock Car Racing. No rain delays. The only ovals would be Daytona, Talledega, Charlotte, Homestead, Indy, and one more each year. The rest of the courses would require actual driving: Laguna Seca, Long Beach, Portland International Raceway, Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio, Road America, Sonoma, and a few others, different each year. The winer of the last on-track race would be trophy champion. Starting order would be determined by points, with the leader given a head start based on how many points, and each car starting so many seconds later. Two weeks after the trophy race would be a 500-mile cup race, from point A to point B. That course, and the "optionals" could be bid on like the Super Bowl or Olympics. AND ... if there's a caution, a camera takes a photo of the whole track and ever car goes back to where it was. No bunching up and stealing positions.

Answer 3

Um. Theres many racing series like you speak of with "stock cars". Like the V8 Supercars for one.

However, in your dream league good luck finding a "stock car" with enough horsepower to push it over 210 mph.
If you have to fit the motor under the hood then I assume your emplying that you can change the engine which would no longer make your car "stock". Therefore, your dream league is full of contridictions and sounds more like a video game or something.
If you dont like the drivers finishing first on the last lap then who the hell would win? The entire race is about being there on the last lap.

The rival racing league you describe is already going on 4 nights a week at my local dragstrip. Except for the 'under the hood' thing.

Answer 4

ARCA has tried to keep up wtih NASCAR; but just has not been able to. NASCAR like the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL are sports institutions that are well established and have monopolies in their genres.

There have been many challengers to the NFL; so who is to say NASCAR won't one day have a serious contender to it's throne.

Alot of open wheel fans where shocked when Champ and IRL parted ways. Both Series are floundering now and open wheel racing in America is on the verge of extinction.

I know alot of Tracks would love to have major Stock Car racing at their Tracks and just can not get NASCAR to pay them a visit. If those Tracks ever unite we may just see some competition for NASCAR in the next decade.

Answer 5

What you're talking about is the "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday" approach of the past. If a series like this existed, I truly believe that it would build a fan base VERY quickly. I personally think races like this would be very exciting on short tracks especially. I think for everyone who agrees with this - we're living in the wrong century................

Great idea. It would be nice if someone with the means to make it happen is reading this!

Answer 6

me and my dad have a theory that maybe one day far down the road there may be an east coast and west coast division of nascar. that may never happen but there are a lot of tracks that want to be on the nascar schedule. the only way that could happen would for there to be races added or tracks deleted. honestly i dont like either of those ideas.

Answer 7

If the Frances alienate enough people, they will clamor for a new Stock Car racing league, and if enough owners and track owners are alienated, it will happen.

NASCAR does need to watch what they are doing, otherwise, they could potentially turn into another CART/Champ Car, where they alienate the fan base, they jump ship to a new racing league, but also in the process, give stock car racing a slow death.

Answer 8

Yes, please! Everyone is sooo worried about Nascar that maybe if a new series is opened up to rival it, they would stop worrying about Nascar and just leave it alone. There are too many critical people of Nascar that need to get a life....

Answer 9

I'd LOVE to see stock car racing! And have a mix, Buicks, pontiacs, Fords, Mercury, let everybody run what they brung! And none of this letting Chevy dominate everything and penalizing all other teams. THAT would be racing worth watching!

Answer 10

Go ahead. Line up the teams, find a track and sell the tickets.
Good luck!