Posted on 12/29/2021 1:40:45 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Oh wait, I forgot to mention the constant livery changes.
From week to week you have to relearn which car is which.
and they fell so quickly into the garage pull as noose mantra....SHAME ON THEM...
The death of Dale Earnhardt was on that day.
Trying to be politically correct is ruining the sport.
I want to see a true unlimited racing class, with real cars and no restrictions (and no pre-race inspections). Want to put 2,000 horsepower in there? Go ahead. That 2,000 hp causes you to go 280 mph and crash in Turn 4? Won’t be doing that again (if you survived it). Certain things are self-policing.
Cost would be the biggest issue, ensuring that someone with very deep pockets didn’t just buy victories every year, so maybe I would enforce some type of spending limit, and there would probably have to be some minimum level of mandated safety measures, but beyond that anything goes.
They are messing with the Fed Ex golf championship the same way. The tour champ is the winner of the final event, no matter how many tournaments he won during the season or how many points he earned. The final tournament is handicapped according to points previously earned, but it still comes down to that one tournament. You can win even if you entered the tournament in 30th place in points.
Same here in a general sense but I started to leave NASCAR about 15 years ago and it was gradual. All sports in a way so I watch none of them anymore. I might watch something if my interest was piqued even NASCAR but nothing in years has done that. I think its mostly burnout from a lifetime of involvement. The political stuff is just icing on top.
That was the whole point of the old Can Am series from about 1966 to 1974. What killed it was one car tended to just dominate and there was no competition. No competition turns a race into a parade.
They lost me when they went to tube frame chassis.
By the way, Tell me where I can buy a pushrod V-8 Toyota motor
I live in North East Georgia and within 4 great small racing venues. YearOne is just the road. On some nights you can hear them racin’.
I’m an amateur driver and could never stand watching NASCAR, or most racing on TV. The exception is tracks I love or drove - like the ring and/or Spa.
Also watching onboard footage from masters like Senna, Lauda and Estre is fun, but note how hardly any real drivers sit down to watch racing.
I quit watching when I learned they had been paying off Jesse Jackson for years .
That’s very true. We didn’t leave NASCAR, NASCAR left us.
THe beginning of the end, or end of the beginning was when they took the second race away from Atlanta Motor Speedway for somewhere in Vegas or Arizona or some other place where no one gives a crap about NASCAR.
Yep Talledega Turn 1. Makes everyone a NASCAR fan.
He raced dirty.
He died,racing dirty.
Yup. That was the last time I watched a race for more than 5 minutes.
Ditto! I especially hate the “cookie-cutter” tracks! Single-file racing is the most boring.
And I don’t know if it’s me, but it seems many of the kids racing these days leave little to be desired at being good role-models for the younger fans, especially those in the stands listening in on the team radios - with exceptions of course. It just seems, and maybe it’s my own nativity, there were many more men of faith back in the day.
It should be about balls and horsepower, with safety cages and safety gear, of course.
I still root for some drivers: Joey Logano (my exstepson raced against him when they raced quarter midgets at Silver City), Ryan Blaney, Kevin Harvick, Chase Elliot, now Todd Guilliland. I'll watch the Daytona 500.
“Competition cautions”. What a load of horse sheet! “If we don’t throw a yellow, they won’t pit, and their tires are worn, and it’s a safety issue”. Let one or two of them crash hard, and the others will figure out when they need to pit on their own!
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