Johali's Rate the Cup race --- Loudon

A 5 is what I was going to give it had it ended with 80 laps to go, so I'll just pretend it ended there and the circus never happened.

So yeah, I give it a 5.
 
3 - was just average at best then all the -:&)&)&)#’d dropped the score even more
 
756 gadzillion. I completely don't understand the low rankings.....yeah, spare me the Toyota glasses, etc....I thought it was incredible to watch the dirt guys come to the front in the wet. Amazing. Incredible win....completely satisfying. Loved how ole Larson was crying for the drys because he burned off his wets....Bell's were fine. Chicken dinner.
 
I recorded it, so I was spared sitting through the delay.

6.5. The wet tire experiment was ... interesting. Hopefully once these tires have been used some more, NASCAR will let the crew chiefs decide when to take them off.
 
I only got to see parts of the last third of the race after the resumption from the rain delay, so I will not attempt to give an actual numerical rating.

Didnt like:
Excessive amount of caution laps.
Nascar controlling the types of tires being used, as already mentioned. Those decisions should belong to the individual teams.

If someone uses up their tires, wet or dry, that is just tough luck. NASCAR should not disrupt the race and the ongoing natural war of attrition. The whole idea is to separate the best performers from the worst ones.

Lower the pit road speeds down as needed to make green-flag stops possible. If that means only 1,000 rpm in first gear, then do it or whatever must be done. Make a judgment call and penalize a driver for refusing to pit and forcing a yellow in order to avoid making a green-flag stop that could cause them to lose many more laps due to the reduced pit road speeds. The whole idea of competition should be a sacred thing that ranks second only to safety.

Cautions should always be used when needed for obvious reasons, but they shouldn't be a catch-all for race control to abuse. There should always be a safety need that makes a caution unavoidable. The goal should be to minimize the need for a caution rather than to maximize it. The same ideas should also apply to minimizing the length of each caution.

I did like the actual racing with the wet tires and the constant search for a different lines to cool off the tires.
 
7
I thought the drivers performed well under the circumstances. The best car won too! NASCAR did a poor job but if I got upset every time they messed up I’d be mad a lot!
 
First stage was boring, I slept through the second stage, the final 80 laps were crazy. Not sure how to rate it.
 
Greg said:
I only got to see parts of the last third of the race after the resumption from the rain delay, so I will not attempt to give an actual numerical rating.

Didnt like:
Excessive amount of caution laps.
Nascar controlling the types of tires being used, as already mentioned. Those decisions should belong to the individual teams.

If someone uses up their tires, wet or dry, that is just tough luck. NASCAR should not disrupt the race and the ongoing natural war of attrition. The whole idea is to separate the best performers from the worst ones.

Lower the pit road speeds down as needed to make green-flag stops possible. If that means only 1,000 rpm in first gear, then do it or whatever must be done. Make a judgment call and penalize a driver for refusing to pit and forcing a yellow in order to avoid making a green-flag stop that could cause them to lose many more laps due to the reduced pit road speeds. The whole idea of competition should be a sacred thing that ranks second only to safety.

Cautions should always be used when needed for obvious reasons, but they shouldn't be a catch-all for race control to abuse. There should always be a safety need that makes a caution unavoidable. The goal should be to minimize the need for a caution rather than to maximize it. The same ideas should also apply to minimizing the length of each caution.

I did like the actual racing with the wet tires and the constant search for a different lines to cool off the tires.
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That's fine and dandy, but on the other hand, when some drivers/teams think there is enough dry and that would be an advantage for their driver/team they should be able to pit. If pit road is slick, or they wreck because it's still too wet so be it, that's racing. Freakin short track, nobody is going 150 MPH, grow a pair.
 
Loudon sucks (worst track on the schedule by far), NBC's booth sucks (all three of them are terrible in their own way), race control sucks (today was a complete clown show) sooo.....

I'll give it a 4 overall, and that's including two bonus points for going the distance
 
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