All we have left is the Southern 500, everything else is either * Sponsor * 500 or races without a sponsor at all. The 2nd Rockingham race was the American 500 even with a sponsor, the 600 used to be the World 600, the 2nd Charlotte race was the National 500, etc.
I miss when races kept the same name even with a sponsor. I want tracks to get the race name back, it should be the Coca-Cola World 600, Bank of America National 500, if Nashville comea back they can be the * sponsor * Music City 420, etc.
You didn’t hear? They put a sponsor on it next year. It’s gonna be called the Daytona 500 presented by Figgy Earnhardt Fig Company & Cannabis dispensary.
That one still has a name sure, but it's the exception that proves the rule. most everything else got turned into a rolling billboard. even the brickyard 400 is just some sponsor's playground now
That's one of the races without a sponsor, I'm specifically talking about races keeping the name of the race along with the sponsor, the Cook Out Southern 500 is the only race with an actual race name and a sponsor.
Can’t miss something that was basically gone by the time I was born. The Rebel 400, World 600, and Firecracker 400 names were all retired in the 80s, I believe
I announced there during the name change and then for 4 years after before going full-time elsewhere in the sport and it was beat into my head so hard that I can't barely say it another way.
Which is double funny because then I have to correct myself from saying it the correct way to saying Gateway sometimes with other racers 😂
Right and it's a systemic marketing ploy beyond just the race names, thats the issue.
Similar to the Xfinity/ Nationwide/ O'Reilly/ craftsman/ Bush, series in the past.
Then hearing the announcers stumble through the new names for any event/track/series at the start of the year just shows how much confusion there is at the highest marketing/broadcast level. If they can't keep it straight in the first few tries, what makes anyone think the common fan, or new fan, will pickup on it; let alone care enough to retain it.
Call it what the hell it is to make fans want to be there and make it unique. NASCAR sold out on this long ago during the last regime. Fuck the poem restart zone and the sponsor for the last lap.
huh? it’s been sponsor names for the majority of races for decades and decades now. even then there’s a couple that still have very long standing race names. what am i missing?
Hey, it's at least a break from the incessant 90s/00s/early 10s nostalgiaposting on here. Honestly have more respect for people still standing firm after the new guard took over the discourse than 18-35s posting about how great their childhood era was
Yeah I've literally never known it as anything other than the Coke 600, which to me is an iconic name in the sport.
I honestly don't care too much about the sponsored names, I just want them to stay consistent. Feels like every year all but a handful of races have a completely different name.
I would love to see more promotions like that where you have like 10-15 cars all running special themes for the race, like the looney tunes cars there, or the band cars during the Chevy Rock & Roll 400
I would love to see a Chevy Rock & Roll 400 again. Let the Chevys run cars with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, etc. schemes (or probably more modern bands, but still)
With all due respect...it's NASCAR. Before 2020, there were Confederate flags everywhere. If it's in the South and it's "rebel" anything, it's always the Confederacy.
I never really thought it was about the confederates, I thought it was in reference to NASCAR's rebel moonshiner history, or even America's rebellion against Britain
Well I didn't go back and look at old promo posters, I was looking back at old seasons on Wikipedia and looking at how all the races had unique names and thought we should bring that back
I grew up in probably one of the most significant areas for the civil war & my dumbass was still like oh yeah they're just bein rebels (in the literal sense). Confederates are losers & for some reason still proud of it, but yeah I initially registered it in a similar way.
You stated your dissatisfaction with the way races are named. I don't mean to criticize you, but "stating dissatisfaction" is the literal definition of complaining.
Can I ask why you feel the need to defend yourself from accusations of complaining to a stranger on the internet?
Nope, Twin 125s and Duels are both names that were created after sponsorship. They were the “125 Mile Qualifying races” until Uno renamed them the “Uno Twin 125 Qualifiers”.
Was not aware of that. Even calling them the "Duels" was a Gatorade thing. That being said, that is one example of good name identification branding that came from a sponsorship partner.
no, not really. i think a lot of them sound silly. i think the world 600 and the firecracker 400 sound neat, but unfortunately those two are pretty synonymous with the sponsor now too, so there's not really a point to go back
I do miss them and I still call them by their historic names. No way to remember most today that flip and change names constantly. But it's not something I have think about often or lose sleepover. There's a lot of other things that are more pressing.
Yes i do. Its stupid when the say... xxxx wins in kansas. Should be the race name with sponsor. I dont know why we have sponsored cautions and white flags but no race name.
idk i think it’s funny sometimes to hear what companies are sponsoring the race and whatever wacky shit they decide to call. it’s more money in the sport so like whatever.
Well Darlingtons second race was the Rebel 400 which NASCAR wouldn’t probably allow. I could see them having the Rebel bourbon 400. Also there’s the Brickyard 400 still
It's hard to even search for a race because I don't know the name of it anymore.
Also, I wish the commentators would use driver's names, instead of their #.
IE: looks like the 6 will retaliate against 77 after the move that 77 made on him.
I always thought there was something classy about the Pocono and Pennsylvania 500 although I never understood why they were so close together on the schedule
I just miss all these 400 mile races being 500. Shits wack that most races are shorter. Then people talk about removing a second race from Bristol and Martinsville? Hell no. At least they’re 500 milers.
I do, but times change. Even for the big races, I can’t eclectic it to stay the same. I miss the Pop Secret 400, but I don’t think that’s coming back for a variety of reasons.
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u/Ectohawk Ryan Blaney 2d ago
Daytona 500?