(From nascar.com)

NASCAR honored with two awards for listening to fans

NASCAR's Fan Council has earned national acclaim by winning the
Forrester Groundswell Award in the Business-to-Consumer Listening
category as well as the Vision Critical 2009 Panel of the Year Award.

NASCAR introduced the Fan Council in 2008 to gain a better
understanding of its fan base.

In 2009, regular consultations with the council, an online community
of 12,000 avid fans, resulted in two important changes to the sport:
double-file restarts and earlier and consistent TV start times.

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It seems to me that those "12,000 avid fans" should start harping on
taking the restrictor plate races out of the Chase. They're too much
of a crapshoot. Or how about taking the Chase out completely? Yeah,
like that will happen. And maybe add a road race, just so some other
avid fans can scream about something ;-)

N.

Nancy2 <nancy-dooley (AT) uiowa (DOT) edu> wrote in news:1a97e8d5-32cd-4ec4-b8e9-
eb91e49620c5 (AT) l35g2000vba (DOT) googlegroups.com:

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy,

The chase is here to stay... deal with it....

The chase is supposed to give the drivers a variety of tracks to race on,
not 1 particular type...saying that, why are all 3 of Bruton's cookie
cutter Tracks and Nascar's Kansas in the chase, that is 40% of the chase
on 1.5 mile tri/quad ovals.

I'd like to see the following tracks in the chase.

Pocono
Darlington
Rockingham
Any Road Course
Charlotte Texas OR Atlanta
Martinsville
Talladega
Vegas
Phoenix
Homestead

Those are a lot better mix of track styles than the current
configuration.

Another Ole Fart

On 05 Nov 2009 02:45:32 GMT, Another Ole Fart <olefart (AT) stinky (DOT) net>
wrote:


How about North Wilksboro ? :-)

On Nov 4, 8:45*pm, Another Ole Fart <olef... (AT) stinky (DOT) net> wrote:
Good list, except for 'Dega. I don't think restrictor plate races
belong.

N.

"Nancy2" <nancy-dooley (AT) uiowa (DOT) edu> wrote


So NASCAR thinks only 12,000 (internet) fans out of approx. 75,000,000 (total NASCAR fan base
demographic)
supposedly represent what the all "fans" want?
That only represents about .0002% of the entire NASCAR fan base.