NASCAR racing at Daytona has become a total joke. Drivers pairing off to race around a high speed 2 1/2 mile tri oval track with $150,000 a piece race cars like it is a chain race with one pulling car and one pushing car. LMAO!
It’s time for NASCAR to figure out what rule changes are necessary so that type of racing will not be on display from their alleged premier racing division.
If I want to see chain racing I’ll go to Crash-A-Rama. That’s only $20 and I get to see many more thrilling crash events like boat or trailer racing, flag pole racing, blind fold racing, demo derbies, school bus figure 8s etc. Oops! I should stop talking about this as NASCAR may try some of these events at Daytona for the Daytona 500 or Coke Zero 400 next year. Hey Moe, they’ll probably hire you as race director for future NASCAR races at Daytona, be ready.
If they are determined to remain committed to chain racing at least do it the right way. Two cars chained together 8’ apart. Both cars with working foot brakes. Back car must have a motor, but not running.
By the way David Ragan was honored in victory lane as the winner of the Coke Zero 400. Properly it should have been the chain team of David Ragan and Matt Kenseth. Both drivers should get the winning points as they did share in the win. Kenseth admitted he was content with pushing Ragan to the win. Is that real racing???
Finishing second was the team of Joey Logano and Kasey Kahne. Third the team of Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon. Fourth the team of Kevin Harvick and Paul Menard with the team of Juan Pablo Montoya and A.J. Almendinger rounding out the top five.
Legend, it has to be fixed aerodynamically. Perhaps a change to the tail section that reduces, but not eliminates, the draft effect. As it is, the draft is an overwhelming advantage that makes the sport on restrictor plate tracks look stupid.
I tried watching last night and lost interest after 2 laps. When you lose the attention of life-long fans, there is something that needs to be fixed.
Take all the aero crap off of them make them match a STOCK TEMPLATE then tell them have at it boys. If you can’t win like that tell your manufacturer build me a car that can win. Oh and NO RESTRICTOR PLATE.
Ok, the only thing NASCAR did was pave the track. How would YOU fix it?
Actually, they didn’t pave Talledega. I believe there were changes to the cars. For instance, the front and rear bumpers now line up where they didn’t before.
I totally agree stock body templates minus all the aerodynamic add ons just like it was in the good ole days when real Fords raced real Chevrolets that raced real Dodges. Do away with CoT cars. I’m still not a fan of Toyotas racing in NASCAR, but that’s just me.
I would do away with the restrictor plates waiting to see if the removal of all of the aerodynamic add ons would keep speed in check and the drivers safe. Driver safety would always be my #1 concern.
OK, explain this. I attended the ARCA race in February. It was the traditional follow the leader drafting. As the pres would say, were they just "acting stupidly’…didn’t know better? Blame the COT, but the Nwide cars do the tandem thing also. It’s not just Cup cars, it’s the great track.
I with you all, we are all here to watch 43 cars going at it for the win, not 21 luvbugs going at it.
I may be wrong but if you make it so that they cant mate up with the rear bumper of the lead car they cant bump draft.
A Driver back in the old Hooters Late Models days wouldnt run a rear bumper ( I think it was Ronnie Sanders) he said if theres nothing there to get hold of they cant push me or spin me out. Sounds like he had a good idea.
So if they misalign the bumpers it might just solve there boring ass racing.
Smokey Yunick suggested using stock production cars with the latest safety technology and opening them up to any brand. He wanted racing to return to its roots where many brands competed and you could tell one from the other. This would bring in more factory teams, new sponsors, new fans and different tracks. The country could be divided into zones and a Superbowl could be held in February in Daytona. The cars shouldn’t cost any more than a front running latemodel and would open doors for the short track drivers that will never get a chance with todays rules. They could even run the mile dirt tracks. Yes, they would be slower, but the competition would be back.
[QUOTE=clincher47;78847]Smokey Yunick suggested using stock production cars with the latest safety technology and opening them up to any brand. He wanted racing to return to its roots where many brands competed and you could tell one from the other. This would bring in more factory teams, new sponsors, new fans and different tracks. The country could be divided into zones and a Superbowl could be held in February in Daytona. The cars shouldn’t cost any more than a front running latemodel and would open doors for the short track drivers that will never get a chance with todays rules. They could even run the mile dirt tracks. Yes, they would be slower, but the competition would be back.[/QUOTEas far as slower speed is relative. They ran as fast in the 80’s. Sounds like a good idea but Idoubt it will happen
I used to enjoy watching nascar back when there were real drivers that would get up on the wheel and motor the car, now with all of the technology, engineers, aerospace designs and other assorted garbage it is simply about as exciting as taking a road trip to Delaware.
Nascar needs to get back to it’s roots, look back to what made it great in the first place. By all means keep working on the safety aspects of racing but leave all of the aerodynamics to Nasa.
If I wanted to watch a bunch of guys racing in a line I would just sit on the side of I-4 for a few hours.
BUT I LIKE CRASHING:)