Think we should start giving points to anyone who can stay awake during the entirety of these NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. I fell asleep during part of the Coca-Cola 600 and spent an hour on the phone with one of my best friends for another hour during the race and missed literally nothing.
The Coca-Cola 600 scored its lowest rating ever on broadcast primetime (race used to be on TBS) and lost out big in ratings to the Indianapolis 500 which was a thrilling race from start to finish -- the exact opposite of NASCAR. NASCAR better wake up. Points resets, eliminations, knockout qualifying, double file restarts, green-white-checkered finishes... all these gimmicks have done nothing. And that's all NASCAR has, gimmicks. Because the racing is just not very good.