Switching brings unneccesary costs. I think we'll see pause on major regulation changes, as well as leniency on older body styles if new ones happen to be introduced.
A few years back, they were selling tickets for the Clash (or whatever it is called now) at Daytona until the day before they announced it would be at the LA Coliseum.
Maybe I’m missing forest for the trees, but I don’t think this is in reference to race locations. I think they’re discussing the impact of raw material prices soaring and or multinational companies pulling back sponsorship money, given the current economic climate.
I wonder if this costs us RAM & Dodge’s rumored return or potentially scares away other OEMs (Honda), hopefully it’s only temporary until we figure things out if it is
Toyota is building a 14 BILLION dollar facility in the middle of North Carolina. Combine that with the amount of cars they make in the US. They aren't going anywhere lmao.
Honda already has IndyCar and IMSA in their North American market strategy. It’s much easier to scare someone away from expanding than to scare someone away from their only “win on Sunday sell on Monday” a market. Toyota is just nascar in NA.
1) They’re a business, of course they are keeping close tabs on the situation. This is a non-issue headline.
2) NASCAR and it’s team owners voted for this. What’s the old saying? Make your bed now sleep in it.
No doubt this will hurt auto racing and that really sucks, but it’s hard to feel bad for the organization, owners/drivers, and (let’s be real) the majority of the fanbase.
Kinda ironic considering the previous administration signed an infrastructure bill that helped bring 2 of NASCAR's most historic tracks back to the national level (North Wilkesboro & Rockingham).
Obviously not a "direct" result since the $ allocation was decided through NC's government, but I don't know if either track would've come back without that chain of events, especially Rockingham.
Always cracks me up that roughly 1 in 4,817 people fits their definition of libs lol. But boy, I tell to h’what. If they hadn’t owned em, I don’t know if we woulda made it.
Like, I just wanna go to work and watch the race on Sunday lol.
All I can think of is how all these people flew too close to the sun with their greed. They all wanted to have their cake and eat it too, they thought they could control the monster they helped create and didn’t realize they couldn’t until it was too late. Now we’re all paying for it because these bastards wanted a 15th vacation home.
Oh yeah. I’m from NL. I‘be never done that trail before but did a lot of them in Gros Morne National Park ! Stunning there as well if you have never been.
Nice! The maritimes and Newfoundland would be two separate trips unless you got 3+ weeks of vacation time. Don’t try to group them in. Make two separate trips. Also for going to the west coast of NL I recommend fly into deer lake on Porter airlines.
So you want to trust corporations to provide all of the services the government currently provides at reasonable costs? And not become privatized monopolies who can charge whatever they want because they know they have captive "customers"?
I'm agreeing with you, I said that because sadly a lot of people would do a PragerU "class" or something instead of a real economics class that doesn't just reaffirm their existing beliefs.
Most Canadians hated Trudeau by the time he left, even if he did do a good job responding to the trade war. His time as the Prime Minister was littered with bad decisions and careless mistakes, and I say this as someone who votes left wing.
I can imagine it has something to do with this BuyCanadian thing we got going on and cancelling vacations to the US because of the what old moldy orange man is doing.
Considering that multiple tourists now have been detained by ICE and countries keep implementing travel warnings to the US, I certainly can’t blame people for feeling hesitant to visit.
I mean I’m not here to judge any of fellow Canadians for going where they want, but when you see all these massive tourist destinations in the states that depend on Canadians struggling.
These tariffs suck for us all, and for Canada the best thing we can do right now is keep our money here until this crap is sorted
Yeah I mean for sure everyone can do whatever they think is best. I just hate to see people robbing themselves the chance of doing something they enjoy
To be fair that's entirely what this thread thinks is funny about the other side of the coin. Half of America has said they don't give a fuck about the tariffs or their wallets. They are tired of the tomfoolery with the social issues in this country. I guess it isn't as chest pounding when americans do it though.
Would you travel to a country and spend your money there if their elected leader said that your country shouldn't exist and should just be absorbed into his country?
Except there have been numerous things happening recently with US/Canada relations, INCLUDING the aforementioned comments, but also tariffs and NATO renegotiations.
Perhaps the issue is that I follow current events TOO closely and merely wanted this person's thought process on the "straw that broke the camel's back."
The independent teams might stop racing until they can afford the single-outsourced parts again. Puts more pressure on the teams, some of which are already suing NASCAR over revenue sharing…
The biggest issue will be the OEMs. They're about to get significant losses and the Trump administration is putting significant pressure on them to not raise prices. They'll need to cut costs somewhere...
Not that it was likely to happen anyway but this could be the deciding factor in NASCAR officially scrapping the Auto Club reconfiguration. It was already going to be obscenely expensive but now the materials are going to cost that much more.
Kind of a side note but Lionel announced a 5% increase to price due to the tariffs and that was before the exact amounts were announced, I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being more.
Ppl are mentioning the parts to make the cars, but it's more complicated then that. Frankly, how much a racecar costs to build is practically meaningless [edit: in this context anyways]. An increase will ofc sting, but that wont kill most teams alone.
What WILL kill teams is sponsors leaving. Whenever the economy crashes businesses immediately begin looking for fat to trim. For many businesses, racing sponsorships will be the first on the chopping block, as that's is where so much of the money comes from, and that will echo through the racing eco system (We saw this when the Tobacco sponsors were banned, and it happened in 2008 also. The top levels of racing managed to find new sponsors and move on. However, they took sponsors that were important to the lower rungs of racing).
And ofc if businesses trim fat, layoffs are on the table too, and when that happens less ppl can afford to go to races meaning less ticket, concessions, and merch sales. Speaking of merch, that could come close to doubling in price.
I mean probably not, but the pandemic years are more of a fluke seeing as it was once per century global event. Something like the 08 crash is where we should be looking, and racing was feeling the pain from that for years after that.
I’m sure a lot of things especially for the teams. Rarely does anything have every part sourced and built for a particular item all gets made in the same country. I’m sure they use a lot of computer chips that are made overseas just to name one.
All the next gen cars are spec cars, Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota have several plants spread over the North American continent, as well as China and Europe. Doubt the cars are 100% American built.
Meanwhile, Nascar is also trying to lock two of its teams out of the sport for not fully agreeing with their charter agreement that's intentionally designed to force the teams to require millions in corporate sponsorship money to survive
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u/greg_jenningz 1d ago
Welp. Time to just turn all the cars into super late models