Dear NASCAR:
How dare you do anything to try to attract new fans. You should go back to how things were in the 1960s when races were decided by six laps instead of six seconds. You should also pull off the restrictor plates because it's just too dangerous to qualify or race in a pack of cars. I mean, someone wrecking at 240 mph would be less dangerous than someone wrecking at 196 mph according to the infinite wisdom of Racing-Forums.com so we should all trust their judgement. You should also start setting the field for the Daytona 500 with heat races, the way you have been since 1959.
I like you Andy but I could not disagree more.
1. The OPs main target was against sundays qualification processs. That is the focus point.
2. With all due respect suggestions of a desire to go back to the 1960s, removal or RPs and going 240 mph, that RF is over the top etc, is an interjection by you. It wasnt suggested in the OP.
3. Racing Forums is not alone with disliking sundays idiocy. Virtually all of the drivers apart from the the first two qualifiers and hired pieces like the Waltrip brothers hated the process.
Some drivers even ridiculed the process and articulated how it has reduced real competition by turning it into something like a circus. Critism with the context being in an era of shut up and smile fines, or even more as an expectation to always praise Nascar relentlessly. To do less is akin to being unpatriotic.
What is even more unique about RFs criticism in regards to sundays qualifications is that even the most adament RF supporters of Nascar expressed total disatisfaction with sundays process.
You could say there is a consensus, there will always be nay sayers or malcontents, that is a part of life and seemingly even more so amomg Nascar fans. But we also have some good fans here imo, in fact some of the best.
I mean they dont go off on Nascar routinely. In fact a few of them try to see Nascars wisdom and they respect the leadership. You could say they try to put their self in Nascars position with applied common sense and respect for the necessities.
But even among those fair minded voices disgust for sundays foolishness could be easily found. A rare event that is a profoundly noteworthy event in itself.
4. Downgrading those concerns and just writing it off as typical ranting is a disservice toward a genuine concern. And witing it off as a bunch of purist disconnected with reality and wanting to take us back to the 60s is a pure distortion.
Just wrong on so many levels.