NASCAR’s inaugural street circuit race in downtown Chicago went down as one of the most-watched NASCAR events in the last 6 years. At least that is what the numbers suggest to us. Following a rain-shortened yet exciting race on Sunday, NBC released the analytics that showed a massive milestone for the sport—4.79 million viewers tuned on to NBC’s broadcast.

Grant Park 220 crossed major landmarks with the exciting race becoming the most-streamed Cup Series race in NBC Sports history with 163,500 viewers across Peacock and NBC. Nevertheless, Kyle Larson fans were busy speculating about any foul play, bringing shame to the driver in the process. After Frontstretch’s Daniel McFadin exposed the toxic discussion on one fan page devoted to Larson, the community brutally slammed such fan theories.

Speculations go off the rail, as chats expose the ugly side of Kyle Larson fans

Sunday’s race was a runaway success despite the horrible weather delaying the race by 90 minutes and shortening the race by 25 laps, consequently killing the game for many. However, as Shane van Gisbergen took the checkered after a spectacular finish, NASCAR nation witnessed the ugly side of the fans.

Discussions started popping up in all corners about NASCAR’s future plans. While these numerous fans’ speculations were going on in the community, Daniel McFadin exposed the nasty side of blind faith.

A Facebook group, named Kyle Larson 5, had a whole lot of hate directed towards NBC. They simply dismissed NBC’s numbers as a blatant lie. One fan noted, “You cannot believe anything that comes from NBC. They constantly lie!” while another responded by pointing fingers at NASCAR by saying, “They just tell us what they are told to.”

Others deemed the analytics as pure “BS,” citing NBC as a propaganda media, spewing lies and spreading false information. While things were getting out of hand in the group chat, McFadin’s volatile tweet exposing the hate quickly went viral, with the NASCAR community taking things into their own hands.

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NASCAR nation puts a full stop to toxicity as they bash the conspiracy theories online

Hendrick Motorsports fans have often been at the receiving end of some of their comrade’s immature outbursts and conspiracy theories. But time things have certainly gone out of hand and the facades of such haters just got exposed publically. The viewership numbers peaked at 5.383 million when SVG crossed the checkered flag between 9.15-9.30 pm ET.

A fan asked,

Soon NASCAR fans got on the offensive as they brutally called out such fan theories.

“The internet was so much better when it was all just people under 30 and nerds,” said one user citing the pitiful present situation.

While another fan tore down the masquerade, mentioning the similar nature of Chase Elliott fans: “That and the Chase Elliott fanbase are the absolute worse”

x“Why are we even giving them the time of day? It’s attention that they want”

Whereas another avid fan expressed chaotic trends online with almost anything and everything turning out to have a conspiracy theory, “I’m so tired of everything being a conspiracy.”

The most disturbing aspect of this is such an incident actually tarnishes the driver’s image and more importantly brings innocent fans in a bad light. “As a Kyle Larson fan myself, I am embarrassed on behalf of the Kyle Larson fanbase. I do not associate myself with this group.”

While a select group of Kyle Larson fans were busy bashing the broadcaster, the #5 driver managed another top-5 finish.

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