Because 35 other guys get into racing situations weekly and don't seem to get into nearly as many problems as Ross.
Ross seems like in real life one of those driver's who would have their hand on the horn rather than foot on the brakes in situations where things are tight.
The land around the track is extremely valuable. Smaller footprint track=smaller footprint of the property. Sell/lease out unneeded parcels of land.
Remember the track also used to host 2 NASCAR weekends a year+Indycar/CART. For most of it's existence it had 2 sometimes 3 race weekends a...
There's too many factors going into DNF's to make them usable statistics.
2009ish-2014ish you'd get 1-3 start n park's per race til NASCAR abolished that practice (can't remember which year that was exactly).
Before the late 00s reliability was still a major concern with multiple DNF's per...
I also fall into this view. I think most people are more OK with Stages than the Playoffs.
A full-season championship with stages that award points but don't end in a caution would be my ideal format.