NASCAR Insiders Hail Bristol Impact After Positive Fan Sentiment Post Race

Soumyadeep Saha | 19/03/2024
NASCAR Insiders hail Bristol impact after positive fan sentiment post race

Some may argue that the Food City 500 was not a great race solely because of the tire debacle, while others might say that this is how racing should be. To obliterate the confusion regarding what the majority of the fans think, veteran journalist Jeff Gluck put up his famous, “was-it-a-good-race” poll and to the utter joy of NBC pit reporter and Xfinity Series driver, Parker Kligerman, most of the fans loved the race.

Kligerman reposted the poll saying, “5 years ago, motorsports in America was in a rough spot. This weekend, we had an epic American endurance race in Sebring, and Bristol might have had one of its best ever. The fact is, everyone is mad that this isn’t above 90% in the yes column. Motorsports in America “ Meanwhile, NASCAR veteran Kenny Wallace, too, chimed in.

“It’s good to see,” wrote Wallace. “It’s been a tough time. Happy to see our Sport doing so good.” What impressed Wallace the most was the fact that for the first time in the last 20 years of NASCAR history, the positive crowd was dominating the negative ones.

Fans oppose Kligerman’s idea of a new Netflix episode

For the first time in the history of short-track racing, there were as many as 54 lead changes throughout the 500 laps of madness that the race at the Tennessean racetrack essentially was. Moreover, there were just five cars that finished in the lead lap. All things considered, Kligerman felt like the race deserved to be featured in an episode of NASCAR-Full Speed.

On that note, he wrote, “I loved that race. Could you imagine Netflix doing an episode on that race alone? Was it extreme? Sure. But beautiful & special in so many ways.” However, most of the fans on platform X disagreed.

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Whether Netflix has been filming the races closely enough to film episodes out of it is still unknown. But even if they have, was the race at Bristol Motor Speedway worthy of being cast on the virtual entertainment screen alongside the 2023 Daytona 500? Well, that is up for some debate, isn’t it?

Post Edited By: Srijan Mandal
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Soumyadeep Saha

Soumyadeep is a motorsport journalist at the Sportsrush. While preparing for his PhD in English literature back in 2021, the revving of stock cars pulled him towards being a full-time NASCAR writer. And, he has been doing it ever since. With over 500 articles to his credit, Soumyadeep strives every single day to bring never-heard-before stories to the table in order to give his readers that inside scoop. A staunch supporter of Denny Hamlin, Soumyadeep is an amateur bodybuilder as well. When not writing about his favorite Joe Gibbs Racing icon, he can be seen training budding bodybuilders at the gym or snuggled in a beanbag watching anime.

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