re: 20 years ago today Dale Earnhardt was killed. NASCAR never recovered.

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The heartbeat of Nascar was in the Carolinas and look at it now: no North Wilkesboro, no Rockingham and they screwed with Darlington for a time. Then you have the France family basically trying to disavow the very people who made their sport popular by banning Confederate regalia. And now your drivers are a bunch of Yankees with zero personality whatsoever. No wonder Southerners have turned it off.

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I hear you, but it wasn't nascar that pulled the races from those tracks. It was the track owners. They pulled the races away from the small venues to move to larger race tracks in the other parts of the country. Look no further than Texas motor speedway and Bruton Smith as an example.

Now I think there is a MASSIVE conflict of interest form Nascar to own International Speedway Corporation which is the track owner for most of the tracks that NASCAR competes on. So they get to assign the races to the tracks AND profit from the races at those tracks as well. But that's another discussion.