The Billionaire Family Ruining NASCAR | Ft. John Russell

One billionaire family is killing NASCAR. The France family owns the entire sport. They’re making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, while teams are struggling to break even. If nothing changes, teams will collectively lose more than $200M over the next five years.
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[adrianr]

If there isn't a billionaire owner squeezing their client base for every penny while simultaneously making the experience worse it isn't American.

[tonysouthern]

NASCAR can go under! They have taken our sport away from those that can not afford to go to races and can not afford to pat to watch it on TV. The France family needs to go!

[dvdv]

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

[mattharrison]

They're literally children who don't want to share

[SantinoCrockett]

Peak Nascar was 2000. It's been downhill since the chase began.

[KRN]

"To make a small fortune in racing you first start with a large fortune."

[rosesmith]

Everything is fun and games, until you let the billionaires in 🙄

[discgolflife]

Boycott, plain and simple. No cars show up, no revenue. It's called hardball for collective bargaining rights...

[LessGo]

I knew something was instantly wrong when Furniture Row, the best team in Nascar in 2017 and 18, suddenly announced they had to shut down immediately after 2018. I still miss them 😢

[jeffdavis]

Now we know why Tony Stewarts team is leaving the sport.

[charlieraffaniello]

If you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin is supposed to be the motto for racers, not billionaires

[jdcole]

Nascar has been a sh*tshow for over 20 years, Dale Jr kept them afloat for a while but since then it's been a downward spiral.

[DianaPrnce]

It's another Ticketmaster. That model needs to be decisively ruled as a monopoly.

[JeffBolen]

I hate the chase, I hate the charters, I hate the stages, they have ruined the sport. It isn’t the best team and driver and car anymore

[RobertGorin]

Appreciate your videos! I’m 54 and younger generations should know there’s no shortcut to acquiring wealth, but there are ways to go about it. Fellow millionaires don’t tell the poor/middle class they need the knowledge of finance coaches to help build their wealth. If anyone here needs a good coach, here’s it..

[stevemillerdfw]

I was a season ticket holder at Texas Motor Speedway in the early 2000’s. It was packed. As soon as they changed the points system it got less crowded. Now TMS is in pretty bad shape. The road around it is terribly maintained. The whole property is looking like a salvage yard. These track owners/ and Nascar have ruined the sport. They can’t even fill up the front grandstand at TMS and they deserve it. I see nothing but things to continue to go downhill for Nascar when it comes to the teams, drivers and fans.

[elijahjp]

As a NASCAR fan, I can't tell you how irritating the France family is. We have a complicated playoff system, which is completely unheard of in motorsports, and Brian France was the one to introduce it, much to the complaining of many older NASCAR fans. They can just introduce gimmicks at will and it is hella annoying. I hope the teams get a better chunk of the revenue.

[Yourmission]

Breaking - Billionaire squeezes more and more money out of nascar with no concern for others, oblivious spectators chant “lets go Brandon”

[nerdcast]

Hell yeah, so happy someone is speaking out about this. Has been just diehard fans involved on this topic for too long

[flanneryvevo]

An agreement on revenue sharing and new leadership would solve this.