Which is more popular, Indy racing or NASCAR?

The new Indycar series had the Indy 500, but CART had the more popular drivers. This division had a major impact on the popularity of Indycar racing and the Indy 500. While all of that was going on Nascar started to gain traction. read more

She fled IndyCar in 2012 for the more popular NASCAR series, where her performance was even more scrutinized as she drove the bulkier cars in stock-car racing, where bumping and "scraping paint" are commonplace, unlike in IndyCar. read more

Indy car racing, like Formula One, was always seen as a cut above the stock cars. In the 1980s, NASCAR went uptown. It moved its season-ending awards banquet from Charlotte, N.C., to New York City. read more