this week\u2019s episode of The Final Lap Weekly Podcast<\/a>, Toby Christie calls out the odd timing of the complaint that NASCAR Cup Series events are too long.<\/p>\n\u201cI feel like everybody is calling for shorter races this week randomly for the wrong reason. We had a weather delay, and it was already scheduled to start late. Those are two things that are not this race\u2019s fault,\u201d Christie explained. \u201cAnd the other thing I find really funny about it, particularly this week, all of a sudden, it seems like the talking point was handed out before this race even began because when you look at Jeff Gluck\u2019s \u2018Was it a good race poll,\u2019 this race scored an 89.5% yes [this was a good race] from the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerry Murphey explains that to cultivate the Gen-Z audience, the sport will have to have shorter races, but Christie fired back that the proposed changes aren\u2019t enough to even pull that off.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, now, instead of a three-hour race, you\u2019re going to have a two-and-a-half, two-hour race, right? You\u2019re still not going to catch that Gen-Zer, who has a 10-second attention span, right? So, why not cater to the people who are watching this sport, which are the people, who like to watch a full race? I don\u2019t understand why we keep doing things to chase away those people, and why we keep talking about those things to chase away those people,\u201d Christie seethed.<\/p>\n
Christie continued, \u201cI feel like everything, every big media blurb, and sound bite is geared towards doing the opposite of what every hardcore fan in this sport wants, and I\u2019m tired of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In this era, where NASCAR is trying to get fans to once again have a reason to say \u201chell yeah\u201d when they think about NASCAR, it\u2019s time for the sport to get back to what caused fans to scream the words in the first place.<\/p>\n
Gimmick-free stock car racing, contested over 400-to-600-mile events.<\/p>\n
Toby and Kerry also talk about their disdain for Stage cautions, which they note have started to take more laps away from green flag racing than legitimate cautions for crashes.<\/p>\n
Embedded below is an audio player so you can listen to this week\u2019s entire episode of The Final Lap Weekly Podcast, which also includes Rowdy Dragon\u2019s Fantasy Racing segment, where our fantasy racing savant lends his advice to help you maximize your performance in NASCAR.com\u2019s Fantasy Live game.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway featured one of the best overall races…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[43409,49,48,256210,3932,634,8354,57580,1404,259450,82,259451],"class_list":["post-716451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-43409","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cracker-barrel-400","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nashville-superspeedway","tag-podcast","tag-shorter-races","tag-sports","tag-the-final-lap-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}