First off, everyone I work with is out of the country or out sick today. I'm gonna be playing around with the NASCAR points because I can. Expect some long ass effort post later. Secondly: I have a hypothesis that the most efficient way to run a 4 car NASCAR team is to select 2 drivers to be your wing/offense, akin to jammers in roller derby. The other two then become goons; blockers who's job is to raise hell from green to checkered. Wall people, hook people, "rattle their cages" at every opportunity, block like crazy since there's no rules about it, whatever it takes to disrupt the flow of anyone who isn't your guy. You pick drivers who have no career if they don't do it - Corey LaJoie types - and pay them well. You can't do any of this stuff over the radio, so it has to be strategized and developed away from the track and even something like the pit crew. This way, you could set up your primary cars to perform well at short runs and have some degree of assurance that they'll get short runs leading to stage finishes or the end of the race.
Would that be entertaining? For one, maybe two seasons. Once all the teams did it, however...