{"id":111598,"date":"2025-08-26T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111598\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:51:08","slug":"jeff-gluck-evaluates-level-of-nascar-fan-outrage-throughout-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111598\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gluck evaluates level of NASCAR fan outrage throughout 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

In terms of NASCAR<\/a> fan sentiment, Jeff Gluck of The Athletic believes it\u2019s been \u201cpretty low\u201d throughout the 2025 Cup Series season. That being said, the last two weeks of racing at Richmond Raceway and Daytona International Speedway were well received by the fanbase. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s shown Gluck that so much of the fanbase\u2019s feeling on the current state of NASCAR is driven by the on-track product, he said on Monday\u2019s \u201cDoor Bumper Clear<\/a>\u201d podcast. When it\u2019s good, fans are happy. When it\u2019s bad, fans often call for change. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gone in spurts. I think a lot of the mood has been pretty bad this year. The fan sentiment has been pretty low, but I think what the last two weeks have shown, oddly enough, is that so much is about the on-track product,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cWhen the races are good and people are satisfied or just even mildly satisfied with what they see, all the other stuff seems [to go away]. Like, you haven\u2019t even seen too much playoff angst and talk and here we are, about to go into the playoffs, but it was after Watkins Glen that everything was at such a fever pitch because everybody was so unhappy with the product and what they were seeing out of the races.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few weeks in a row, everyone was like, \u2018Everything sucks.\u2019 This industry, this fanbase seems to go in these waves where if you get a couple weeks of good racing, everybody\u2019s in this good mood again. If it\u2019s three weeks in a row of like \u2018Ah, that race wasn\u2019t any good,\u2019 everything is like \u2018What needs to change? What are we doing wrong? Where did this industry take a dive?\u2019 After Watkins Glen, it was like \u2018Man, this sucks. Richmond is gonna be a bad race, a short track race and we\u2019re gonna see the same crap at Daytona we\u2019ve always seen \u2014 stuck in line, can\u2019t do anything.\u2019 \u2026 The last two weeks have been so refreshing because I didn\u2019t expect it, and I don\u2019t know if the playoffs can keep it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR playoffs begin with Southern 500 at Darlington<\/p>\n

Tire wear was the story at Richmond, and the end result was one of the better short track races in recent memory. Daytona, meanwhile, was lauded as perhaps the best superspeedway race of the Next Gen era. <\/p>\n

With the playoffs getting underway this Sunday at Darlington Raceway, there\u2019s renewed hope that the stellar on-track product can continue. The 10-week postseason should provide some excitement, with 16 drivers chasing a Cup championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In terms of NASCAR fan sentiment, Jeff Gluck of The Athletic believes it\u2019s been \u201cpretty low\u201d throughout the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-111598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}