2010 NASCAR running thread

[spnited]

They want wrecks, bubbs. Mike Helton all but said last weekn they need bumping and rubbing to make it exciting and boost TV ratings.

WWE on Wheels

 

[Machine Head]

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.

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 shirt out of these late-race restarts to prevent drivers from tripping all over each other and causing these preventable wrecks.

I want ol' DW off my TV.

 

[spnited]

And shouldn't we be saying some guy nobody ever heard of won the Daytona 505?

 

[Bubbler]

They want wrecks, bubbs. Mike Helton all but said last weekn they need bumping and rubbing to make it exciting and boost TV ratings.

WWE on Wheels

Wrecks spaced out naturally over a race are one thing, wrecks caused by driver incompetence/inability to control themselves because of NASCAR's contrived end-race rules are quite another. It is bad for their ratings in the long run.

No disagreement on the WWE crack.

 

[Batman]

They want wrecks, bubbs. Mike Helton all but said last weekn they need bumping and rubbing to make it exciting and boost TV ratings.

I'm not sure if it was a national or regional spot, but there was a commercial for the April Talladega race on at some point. It was promoting the heck out of the fact that bump drafting was back and the race would be exciting again. It basically did everything but say, "If you don't see someone die we'll refund your money!"

 

[hondo]

I've never liked adding laps to have a green checkered. To me, it would be like deciding to wipe out an interception on 3rd down on the opposing team's 35 to give a team a shot at the game-winning field goal because it would be more dramatic.

If there's a yellow on lap 199, then the race should end in yellow on 200. None of this fake laps so we can have a nice finish.

I think far more people hate races ending on caution than the new rule. Bottom line is that everyone knew the rule change. Greg Biffle doesn't get to bench about it.

 

[hondo]

Who led after 500 miles?

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

That's an excellent justification for new rules.

Wouldn't it have been Biffle?

 

[westcoastvol]

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 heck 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 bullshirt.
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.

If it's scripted, why would you script a relatively nobody like McMurray to win?

If it's scripted, why wouldn't you script an even bigger nobody like Michael McDowell or an even bigger hard-luck driver like Mike Bliss or someone who's a road racer like Boris Said to win? heck, let's put Dave Blaney back in a ride, tell him not to go to the garage with unknown mechanical issues ten laps into it. Why not script it to let AJ Allmendinger win, since Richard Petty's wife is in poor health?

Conclusion: Spnited likes figure skating, and we all know there's never been any collusion amongst judges in that sport whatsoever. Nosireeeeeee.

 

[Machine Head]

Joon Bug!

As someone said yesterday he also needs help picking out his ties. And making sure they are tied to the proper length, I'll add.

Well, at least Mikey is saying today he wants to run at Daytona again next year. Glad he got that out of the way.

 

[Bubbler]

Scripted isn't the right way to put it. Contrived definitely is.

 

[Bob Cook]

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 heck 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 bullshirt.
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.

If it's scripted, why would you script a relatively nobody like McMurray to win?

What they wanted was a script that ended with an EXCITING RACE TO THE FINISH!

Instead they got, did you cum? (No.) Did you cum? (No.) Did you cum? (YES!) forking finally.

 

[westcoastvol]

Are we at least all in agreement and universal approval of a very diminished Digger presence?

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