I do not watch either , 

I don’t have the same level of interest as I once did, although I do follow NASCAR to a degree.  You can add Drag Racing to this list also.  As far as Indy racing, no I don’t follow anymore. 
I agree everything has become so standardized, homogenized and expensive ... it is just not appealing anymore.  And F1 is crazy with million plus dollar cars, and several personnel monitoring the car from corporate headquarters, and advising pit crews at the site what to do.
If you want to read about the “good ole days”, I suggest the book “Cheating, An Inside Look at the Bad Things good NASCAR Winston Cup Racers Do in the Pursuit of Speed”

I've always thought it would be fun to drive a race car on a track. I did a little with the Mini. My wife enjoys NASCAR so I watch it withe her. I'm not going to curb that.  I think the corporate owners take the competition out of it. It's been many years since I watched Indy.

I personal started losing interest sometime after we lost Dale. The wife still keeps track and tells me about that days race & what happen, but the names have all changed. So I just keep nodding head with a puzzled smile.
AM talk radio is more my style today

Standardization of the cars killed it for me. Smokey wouldn’t last five miles with today’s rules.

This is just me - no offense intended to anyone else.  I don't watch NASCAR at all - too many yellow flags for no reason and often no yellow flag when one is warranted, inconsistent rule application, too many "star" drivers that have so little talent that they have to wreck people to pass them and too many wrecks in general, and the gimmicks (infinite green/white checker "sudden death" and the "stage" concept).  I watch IMSA and WEC races now and then and sometimes the Indy road courses and F1.  But all of them (except F1, for which races are broadcast without interruption) have way too many commercials.   I prefer to be puttering around breaking stuff in the garage.

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I've never been into any of them much more than being a casual observer. However, I stumbled onto the Netflix F1 documentary and really enjoyed it. The personalities and the huge sums of MONEY involved were of more interest than the racing itself. 

BillyC wrote:

I’m a true NASCAR fan. No particular driver I just like racing. When I retired some folks bought me a ride along at the Richmond Speedway. Something to be said about being inches from the outside wall at >100mph. Most fun I’ve had with my close on! That said there are somethings about NASCAR that I don’t like but not enough to keep me away.

I turned 10 laps in one about 20 years ago in Florida.  Probably the best $300 I ever spent.  I'd do that again in a heartbeat. 

I just really like the way the sport started, and the characters that were involved.  Today its too much about media coverage and there just isn't any innovation, because its been outlawed. 

It kills me a bit that its turned into that.  Years ago my family's business built the first skyboxes at Dover.  The director of motorsports was a guy named Melvin Joseph, and we used to go to his box for races for years after that.  I met among other people there Bobby Allison. 

Funny story, while the skyboxes were under construction they were also resurfacing the track.  One morning we went int to work at like 6:50 in the morning ad there are two contractors running their trucks around the oval!  I'm talking ladder racks and all doing like 100MPH.  Now THAT was maybe the bets NASCAR race I ever saw!
 

I agree with the comments of others.  I have enjoyed watching cross country.  Haven't seen it much lately.