why did nascar make this race all about danica?

I don't know.

I do know if they pull that crap next week at Cali I'm going to stop watching the race, and wont watch the other 11 shes running.

Even when she crashed they had a damn thing at the bottom every 5 minutes "Danica is out."

Maybe nascar thinks they know what people want, like the car of tomorrow, and fire works.

Seriously, I started going to the stock car races in New England in the early 60's. And the tracks would give breaks to those drivers that they thought the people came to see. But instead of competitive breaks, now they give publicity. I bet the sponsors like it.

Money and sponsors.

She did okay, but nothing extraordinary at all. Nothing.

Lots of girls racing in America, she is just not too bad to look at and plays that up in her commercials and Nascar is using that as much as they can.

Well, they make it all about Junior the rest of the time, guess they needed a little "variety." Don't worry tomorrow it will all be about Jr again, I'm only wondering how many races wins DW is going to predict for Junior, he has already done, 6, 8 I guess Junior will win at least 10 races according to DW, and of course the championship....

I'm so sick of the NASCAR marketing machine and their media cronies...

I know it was annoying. SPEED wasn't too bad about it, but it was her first stock car start, but ESPN was just ridiculous, like at Texas when JJ wrecked there was a Jimmie Johnson update show every 3 minutes.

Because she brought a 60% increase in viewing of the ARCA race, and yes it is annoying but understandable at the same time. They have to give the majority fans the benefit of coverage.

She is just another marketing tool like the 88

Danica and Dale Jr are the two big names in Nascar right now, and will be till they retire. Larry Mac and Jeff Hammonds talk about Dale Jr 80% of the time. Commentators talk about drivers that most of the fans want to hear about. Most people are interested in what Danica is doing.

What makes you think Nascar has anything to do with it? ESPN played the race and the TV people are going to talk about what the masses wanna hear about. If you wanna blame anyone, blame the masses. She is a huge story, whether any of us like it or not. And again, the masses decide what is a "story", not TV and not Nascar.

Attendance and money