I have been a fan of NASCAR for over 20 years. Well no more. There will be no more stupid diecats bought by me, or races attended. I have released my bristol and richmond season tickets. How does that hurt them…each diecast cost 70 dollars i buy about 20 a year.. no more. The races tickets are several hundred. It wont put them out of business but i am not the only member of these sites that is done with NASCAR. Not only after you have alienated your core fans for however many years trying to get rich. Now you decide to attack the SIM Racing community. NASCAR had MASGRAFX and The Racing Groove shutdown last night all over their stupid f’n logo. So now you attack some more fans rather then address issues that matter attack your fans. God you people are stupid. Serves you right when the fans leave the sport. The sites are dedicated to the love for this sport and racing I would think you would be happy to have so many sites out there using a product with your brand on it. But no… instead you attack the fans who run them and use them. Where do you think Denny, Dale, and so forth SIM Race with.. people from these communities. To bad they wont get to read this post. Saddest part is this is all over money. These sites the people who make the cars, logos, and so forth for use in the NR2003 game and IRacing dont even get paid for all there time. But NASCAR wants money for using their logo that can be found on freaking google. What a bunch of idiots Mike Helton and Brian France Jr are. So sad. And thats the end of my rant. Just though i would put out the holiday word on what a great organization these people are that is NASCAR.
Sincerely,
Alan Harkleroad
US Navy
Nascar Fan 20 + years.. No more.
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4 Comments
Shermanatr88
Dec 22 2008 19:11
It was nascar at first.
Originally, Masgrafx was shut down because they had NASCAR logos on the site and they had a donation box for people to help keep the site running. NASCAR mistakenly thought that they were using the NASCAR logos for profit, which of course they weren’t. MAS agreed to take down the logos, so the site stays up. As far as I know, Masgrafx is back up and I expect TRG to be back up soon too. Apparently their problem was a hacker eating up bandwidth, so they suspended the account for a while.
The homepage of masgrafx actually reads,
“We would like to thank our members and visitors for the growing popularity of MasGrafx Racing. I have good news to share with all of you. NASCAR has closed the case on the trademark infringement. We have removed their logos, and we will continue to work on a new site that should open before the Daytona 500.”
TalenGTP
Dec 22 2008 18:05
You sure NASCAR did it?
What proof do you have that NASCAR had anything to do with it? Based on a post over at Rubbin’s Racin’, it looks like it was an bandwidth issue with the webhost. Please don’t tell me that you saw the site go down and just automatically ASSumed that NASCAR had something to do with it…
gruss134
Dec 22 2008 15:29
Wow
I totally agree,,Im done with nascar.I goto 4+ races a year,a member of these sites,and they shut them down.Not happy. so ill stick to my local short tracks..not all about the money there.
Good Luck NASCAR
norain1
Dec 22 2008 11:14
im suprised they didnt flag this
they dont take criticizim at all cause thier perfect in thier minds . i like your point as long as they leave it up. but a couple things have to do with bad decicions 1 is you get so big you become unmanagable,regretable but it happens nobodys falt. 2 sometimes you get a person making the calls and they acually dont have a level head or good judgement< not nascars falt but the person perhaps needs moved else where. now dont let 1 jackasses judgement let it push YOU out of something i can tell you truely love .we have to stick together keep our sport great. and maybe you can write people to let them know an error may have been made address bottom of community standards.only we can change things. stay with us pal, dont leave!