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You could only stitch together a narrative of the seasons where Logano won the title around Logano retrospectively and not in real time because, well, he was never the favorite to win. I know some will suggest this isn't an issue, except the entirety of sports media is built on endless...

Wrestling - and I say this as someone who doesn't watch it anymore (I could spend awhile on that but will spare all as it is irrelevant) - is a simulacrum of an athletic endeavor which is really a performance art. The reason why wrestling became fixed in the first place was to at some point...

Newey with a clean sheet at a new team is still Newey working with a lot of new to him people and/or being in a situation where the feedback Newey is getting from engineers might not be getting listened to. Every once in awhile, I have weird recall about offhanded stuff I hear, and in the case...

Newey and Red Bull didn't produce immediate gains and I don't expect that at Aston Martin either, especially with a lineup consisting of someone chasing the dragon of being the oldest WDC and Lance Freakin' Stroll. By the time I expect them to be up to snuff, Alonso is going to be closer to 50...

What I'm saying here is that the concept of "playoffs" being a necessary thing for sports is primarily an American concept of sports, not a universal one. Yeah, the only series that run any kind of end of season playoff extravaganza are NASCAR's national touring series, the NHRA pro classes, and...

Alex Bowman backing into a Final 4 run because of other people's issues would be extremely hilarious in this scenario. Don't discount the potential amusement.

We're all Americans here and so we all associate sports with some sort of "playoffs" and "postseason". There's no playoffs to decide who wins any European national championship in soccer. The reason we have playoff systems is because MLB was created out of two separate leagues who had to have a...

Yeah, but NASCAR owns Phoenix, and SMI owns Vegas, so you know, who cares if Vegas is obviously a better and more interesting place for a finale? Boy, did I ever wind up supporting your larger point in this thread. LOL

The problem is that during the process of racing in stages 1 & 2, those sums are constantly changing. So yeah, you'd need to automate it and make it part of the broadcast (more tickers!) to make it followable, which is indicative of one of the core issues that I have with the system. But again...

If your perspective is that racing should crown champions based on full season performance, then any other system is not going to be acceptable. I don't want to debate this endlessly, but here's how I'd summarize my position. This year in 9 of the 26 races (approx 34% of the events) the car who...

This is also what I care about but I suspect ARCA East is the go to and not the Mods. Mods might get me to fly home for the weekend and bury the hatchet over IMSA not going to Lime Rock anymore. Having said that, nothing that good happens any more in my life.

Every other sport I can think of wants to speed up the games and make the rules more simple for fans to understand. Start with that: I don't even need or want to propose anything. NASCAR is who is in charge, they have the huge TV contract, they're the one entity who for certain is not in any...

Things are so fixed in terms of the races being competitive that next year NASCAR is going to add a midseason tournament to the mix.

Talk and replays at least in the short term. They might migrate some programming from Flo over to their own FAST channel in the future when the contract is over, but I would guess they'd prefer to be paid a premium for access to the Whelen Modified Tour or weekly late model racing at South...

"Free Ad Supported TV". PlutoTV is the classic example: huge amount of content freely available to watch. Someone already mentioned Racing America (RTA owns that) having a channel showing reruns of late model races from their streaming service, but NHRA has a channel too that is honestly great...

All true and yet NASCAR could just do it and monetize it and have better uploaded versions of it and I would like that more. I am literally asking NASCAR to make money off my interest in an asset they possess!

This is true of the broadcasts after 2001. I honestly wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the owner of the broadcast rights for, say, those mid 1980s PPV Pocono races is Pocono Raceway. Or that ESPN or CBS owns the footage of the 80s/90s racing they had on. But I also don't know that! I...

There are exactly zero Goody's Dash series races up on their channel as an example; not much for any series in terms of classic races. My complaint was about the guys on YouTube who were getting copyright claims for posting full old races that NASCAR wasn't posting. I have no issue with NASCAR...

If they're gonna copyright strike everything on YouTube that they own, the least they can do is show random races on Pluto/Roku/Tubi/Stirr/etc. At least then it's available to the public and they can generate some revenue out of it.

He was a 6 time champion with 4 race wins on the season entering the finale. He was not a Cinderella. The only person who might have filled that bill at the 2016 Ecoboost 400 is the guy who was in the lead when a phantom debris caution flew and was subsequently wrecked, never to race again.