What will be the ultimate impact of Bristol Dirt?

[BloomerWon]

Only at yer choice of candy bars. No Zagnut?

Don't blame that on me bud! That dam Easter Bunny left them here!!

[BloomerWon]

Flysb0y "LOVES" him some ZERO bar occasionally 😘

[Rajflyboy]

Yes. Bloomquist is still the goat. Still the greatest Dirt Late model driver ever to exist 👍

[vande07]

As much as I'd like to think this will propel dirt racing and increase the fanbase, purses and overall interest, history says it won't.

When the Outlaws ran at Bristol in the early 2000's (on LIVE at that), it was supposed to propel dirt racing forward with a larger fanbase, bigger purses and more interest by large corporations/sponsorships.

Here we are almost 20 years later and guess what?
Purses remained stagnant (and when you account for inflation have probably decreased)
LIVE TV actually went away for many, many years only to be replaced by streaming (that unless you search it out, you don't know it exists, so no new eyeballs watching)
car counts and the fanbase haven't grown (I'd say if anything car counts and the fanbase have decreased across all divisions of motorsport the past 20 years as the fanbase ages).
as far as sponsorships go, have they grown? watching the cars and teams it doesn't seem to me that it has.

Is it a positive? Yes.

Will it propel dirt racing to the masses and create huge growth? remains to be seen, but typically you can learn the answer by studying history.