2010 NASCAR running thread

NASCAR should hire this kid:

 

Nobody much minded finishes under caution when you could at least race back to the yellow flag. That change has done more to hurt NASCAR than anything else.

 

This is going to go back to being a niche sport real quick if they don't stop with the gimmicks to squeeze every red cent out of the viewers, who aren't stupid and see through this crap:

1) Quit letting everyone race in the Nationwide series just so you can sell more beer on Saturday night. It waters down the series. The Rolling Stones don't open for themselves, right?
2) Repave Daytona. And if you don't, quit lying about it.
3) End on yellow and live with it.

 

But he seems so nice in the commercials and on TV.

 

Where's the button for newsletter subscriptions?

 

Who led after 500 miles?

 

I believe under the old rules (i.e., last week), Kevin Harvick would have won Daytona.

 

We all know Jeff Green and Mike Wallace won't bring the kind of sponsorhip money into the Nationwide series a name like Stewart does. NASCAR wants that revenue stream to continue to flow freely.

As far as the racing yesterday, it wasn't bad. Hell, they were able to pass.

 

That's an excellent justification for new rules.

 

Some Daytona last thoughts:

The promo for this Sunday's race at Fontucky had 3x as many highlights and 10x the amount of actual excitement that we'll see in the race itself.

Fontucky's so boring of a track that me and my friends agreed that even if we were given luxury box passes behind the pits, going to a race would be debatable. New rules can't save this track. Only something radical like rebanking the turns or some other physical alteration can help.

What the hell got into Junior on those last two laps? Not sure I've ever seen him drive like that. Not a big Junior fan, but that was amazing to go back and watch. I'd love to see him drive like that again. Might've been one of the best individual pieces of driving that I've seen in a long, long time on a Sunday.

Most of the commercials were lame.

Krista Voda was dressed like a McDonald's regional manager.

 

All of which conveniently ignores the fact that the guy who led the Daytone 500 after 500 miles was not the winner.

Contrived WWE-style bullshit.
No longer a credible sports. Just a show that now encourages agressive driving and crashes and scripts the ending.
But that pothole thing was a nice touch. Maybe they should include that in every race, kind like the water jump in the steeplechase in track.

 

Add to this ...

4) Get rid of the asinine lucky dog rule.
5) Let drivers race to the yellow.
6) Get rid of the dumbass Chase.
7) Police the shit out of these late-race restarts to prevent drivers from tripping all over each other and causing these preventable wrecks.