NASCAR betting has gone through many transitions over the years. The cars, the drivers, the sponsors, everything seems to change in auto racing betting. No matter what level you’re talking about. But in the past few years, as NASCAR betting’s popularity has soared there has been a great number of changes, some very subtle and some quite blatant.
NASCAR attracts all kinds of fans and has proven quite popular across all market segments. That the this type of auto racing betting can appeal to rednecks, minorities, WASPs, men and women and Wall Street alike says a great deal about NASCAR betting’s popularity. And that has likely been the biggest change in the sport in recent, its mass appeal and its drawing on new NASCAR audiences. No longer is the sport simply a regional favorite, but now NASCAR betting has become a favorite of auto racing sectors in general.
But one of the more subtle changes that we’ve seen only in the past five years is the consolidation of driving talent and the formation of ‘Super’ NASCAR driving teams if you will. Traditionally, NASCAR racing teams was lone-wolf operations. There was one driver, maybe two at most and that and for the most part the team operations were not something of interest to NASCAR fans. But things have changed a great deal and now the team aspect of NASCAR becomes much more important than ever before.
From a certain perspective it’s inevitable that the team aspect would become more important in NASCAR just as it is in many other forms of auto racing betting. For one thing, if the team owner has the capital to have a team of say four drivers, the advantages are obvious. The data collected from the four different drivers can all be shared and thus the NASCAR betting driving team with four drivers is able to collect four times the information about the track and racing conditions than the auto racing betting team with just one driver.
With the relative wealth of information it’s much easier to set up the NASCAR cars. Once the season begins and each driver is allowed only a limited amount of time on the NASCAR track, this information becomes priceless and has helped teams like Hendrick Motorsports dominate the NASCAR for the past few years. Gibbs racing is also a beneficiary of this and soon these mega teams could push the one man shoe-string teams right of NASCAR altogether.