June 3, 2022
NASCAR continues to abandon its customer base
By
Andrea Widburg
I have no gay pride. I don’t have gay hatred either. I simply don’t care very much. It’s enough for me that our laws give people equal protection and most Americans no longer consider homosexuality a sin. And that’s probably enough for most people. And I bet most people, like me, dislike the annual barrage of mandatory love for the LGBTQ+++ crowd and especially dislike the industry that’s sprung up around confusing kids about their biological and then giving them expensive, mutilating surgery and toxic drugs. These same people almost certainly don’t make up NASCAR’s fan base. Corporate NASCAR, however, has decided to stand with the LGBTQ++ activists.
Last Sunday NASCAR held its All-Star Race at the Texas Motor Speedway. There’s a big NASCAR fan base in Texas. If you go to
the list of NASCAR tracks, you’ll notice that the seating at the tracks is, on average, bigger in conservative states than in progressive states. Thus, the Texas Motor Speedway seats 137,000 fans while the Watkins Glen International in New York seats 33,000 fans. The biggest track, in Indiana, seats 257,325 fans, while the track in Portland, Oregon, holds only 30,000 fans. It’s not a perfect political alignment but it’s plenty close.
NASCAR fans are male, older (over 45), White, and live in the rural South or Midwest. Oh, and they’re much
more likely to be Republicans. These are, on average, people like me who neither want to punish nor celebrate the LGBTQ+++ crowd and who support Texas’s willingness to define as child abuse surgical and chemical “gender” treatments performed on children.
NASCAR, though, has been having a bit of a problem keeping fans. Rising costs (fuel and lodging) making race attendance more expensive, commercials, alternative types of races, sometimes silly rule changes—all these are
nibbling away at the key demographic.
Perhaps it was the search for a new demographic that saw NASCAR management (and, of course, the very woke FBI, which sent out 15 agents) have a complete emotional breakdown when Bubba Wallace claimed to have found a “noose” in his garage stall. The “noose,” as you know, was merely
a rope pull that had been there for ages. But for NASCAR’s management, it was a chance to show that
it cared.
Now, NASCAR’s management is doing a different type of virtue signaling. With June upon us and the annual ritual of abasement before the LGBTQ+++ crowd having begun, NASCAR is apologizing for “recent actions” that didn’t align with “NASCAR’s mission to be a welcoming sport for all.”
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