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Seems to me, suspending a driver for one race is a greater penalty than suspending a crew chief and some crew members for four races. My reasoning is, the whole team (including how the car performs on the track) revolves around the driver. His "feel" determines how they tweak the car's...

Although not a NASCAR race, your answer could lie in what happened in 1999 during the VisionAire 500K Indy Racing League race at Charlotte...

Yeah, sad that it's still true...

Camera angles and relative distances can make it tough to see the differences between street car dimensions and NASCAR Cup car dimensions. Cup car dimensions are 193.4" long by 78.6" wide by 50.4" high. Stock Camaro is 188" to 190" long by 75" wide by 53" high. Stock Mustang is 186" long by 74"...

The way I look at it is from the perspective of how NASCAR tried to present itself. The SC in NASCAR stands for Stock Car... the promotional phrase used to be "win on Sunday, sell on Monday". Although Cup series cars have been quite different from their showroom counterparts for decades, now...

Fine with me. I used to be that way too, until NASCAR made the cars too standardized and then my manufacturer disappeared (Pontiac). Today we have a new version of IROC cars with the only difference being the engines. Maybe I could be lured back into manufacturer rivalry if the cars at least...

I don't bitch about tracks either. It's the same track for everybody, so may the best driver and team figure it out. These are supposed to be the best drivers and teams, so I don't like hearing any whining. As for your Toyotas, your favorites are fine with me as long as you don't begrudge...

Maybe they could use tire pressure monitoring systems like the ones that have been in street cars for decades now. But instead of the tire pressure sensors only transmitting to a display for the driver, the data is sent to a computer that NASCAR monitors. NASCAR wouldn't even need to know each...

I prefer hard tires. Forces the talent of the suspension set-up guys and the driver to show.

Some people figure that, because Reddick has had his Cup success in the #8 car, the #8 is part of Reddick's brand identity. So Childress placing Busch into the #8 next year (and presumably placing Reddick into a car with a number that has little if any recent success history) hurts Reddick's...

In the past, auto racing (particularly local track races) have problems on Friday nights when high school is back in session. A lot of the same people who tend to be auto racing fans also have kids involved in high school football (athletes, cheerleading, band etc.), so once football starts...

This is interesting, and quite a turn-around from Childress's poor relationship with Kyle after their fight in 2011. (Remember Childress attacking Kyle after the spring Truck race at Kansas, when Kyle ran into Childress's truck (driven by Coulter) after the race was over? And at that point...

I suppose it's a matter of what NASCAR is more interested in - TV audiences vs. filling seats at the tracks. Sunday night races are difficult for fans who have to travel long distances and then have to be at work Monday morning. At a lot of tracks you endure hours of slow traffic while trying...

Not sure, but it sure seems to stick to (and clog up) the bottle opening quite easily and thoroughly...

If people would spend as much time and effort finding practical solutions for their problems, as they do whining about them, they'd have a lot fewer problems to whine about...

Seems like the auto manufacturers are targeting the Urban Cowboy crowd for pickups now. Just saw an ad on TV (was Chevy or Ford - I forget now which one) where the pickup truck owner doesn't want to let his muddy friends into his pickup because they'll get it dirty, and when one of them says...

Unfortunately, lately it seems like those "real men who just don't care" sure start caring (and whining) when others don't care about them...

About attracting and keeping enough staff to operate a track: from my limited experience actually working at a track there sure is a lot of unpaid or poorly paid labor required, while many racers and spectators don't realize or appreciate that, so it doesn't surprise me if turnover is high...

About the effect that racers can have by supporting their track(s) outside of race night: A few years back, a guy built a small dirt track in Ararat VA. Not sure if he had any race track promoting experience, but he was struggling to bring in enough cars and fans to pay the bills. A couple of...

Hmmmm... I know a few Tesla drivers and none of them treat it like a status symbol... there probably are some that do, but that's true about pretty much every luxury and muscle car or truck.