The problem is this idiotic race to the chase format.
It didn’t bother me a bit when a driver clinched a championship several races before the end of the season. This race to the chase crap leaves things too open to manipulation with things like team orders.
They should make team owners and Team GMs sit in an isolated room at the track during the races, watching the raes on CC TV. Don’t let them communicate to teams during the race. And only specific car team members can spot for the driver or communicate over the radios.
That would likely fix the “team order problems”. Anyone caught cheating has to ride a bycicle around the middle of the track at Talledaga with headphones and blinders during a long green flag run.
Your right, if a driver had the ability to lock things up so be it. They all went through dry spells. PLUS when it wasn’t decided early, it made for terrific races and anticipation week to week. As far as the remaining races, they could always raise the purse structure to draw both crowds and teams...gawd only knows NASCAR rakes it in.....
The problem is this idiotic race to the chase format.
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Bingo!!
Nascar has gone ‘Obama’ and transformed itself into a major mess.. Maybe we need a Nascar Czar.
Don't forget that we got this idiot format because Matt Kenseth, a great driver who unfortunately does not have a high Q score like Junior, Jeff, or Princess Sunshine do, won the cup.
My solution would be to go back to all 36 races counting equally, but give the winner a 100 point bonus over second place, and no points for anything below 25th or so. Fat chance it will ever happen.