Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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Who do you think is the cash-cow for Nascar, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA?  TV.  Period.  Gate $$$ is fun and all, but the real money is made from the TV deals.  Sprint Car racing finally got the memo.  Like it or not, streaming is going to be THE driving factor going forward.  It will also evolve greatly as the next few months and years pass.  

I'm afraid what's going to eventually hurt the High Limit viewership is the lack of driver contracts.  When the first High Limit "west coast swing" hits, and there are literally 1 or 2 "series points" drivers in attendance, people will be turned off.  Don't get me wrong, I think the racing and car counts will be just fine.  However, people want a series, and I don't think the High Limit will end up being a series.  The average fan is going to get sick of Sweet running every race and running away with the points.  I won't----I believe in capitalism, so Sweet should be the guy everyone has to beat.  But the fans that have been clamoring for this to take place are going to tire very quickly, and will begin to turn on the series----hell, they already did last year and it was only a 4th of the races.   

It's going to be very interesting what happens with the streaming world.  All of the things people loved about streaming when it was first getting popular are now being taken away (reasonable price, ads, PW sharing).  I chuckled at the time when people were so happy to "stick it to the cable company" because it was so much cheaper to stream, I couldn't figure out how people thought it would be cheaper forever since the only thing that was different was it was delivered to your house on a different cable (unless you have cable internet lol), the networks or content creators are going to get paid.  Anyway, I would be very interested to know how much DV or Flo contributes to their series', I don't think it's bankrolling the series like it is in other profesional sports but I could be wrong.  Overall I think streaming has been really good for sprint car racing because even though it MIGHT pull a few butts out of some seats, there's WAY more people that are watching, in the end giving sponsors more bang for their buck.  

I highly doubt lack of contracts is going to affect viewership.  At the end of the day, if there's good racing, will anyone give a shit who has a contract?  Sweet could win most of the races and run away with the points even if there's 20 cars running the series, would that be any different if there was only 3 or 4?  If Sweet dominates most people will be saying he beat lesser competition no matter which series he would win.  Also, what do you mean by the High Limit won't be a series?  Isn't it already?  I'm confused.