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Option #5 is a bluff. There’s no way running a spec car series where you absorb all the costs is profitable at all. Any good negotiator knows that you shouldn’t be afraid to call the other side’s bluff.

If the teams had that strategy that then “dumb” is an accurate description for those owners. Instead of doing things themselves, they want the courts to step in. Imagine telling Junior Johnson to rely on a court to straighten out NASCAR.

The teams let themselves be blackmailed. NASCAR has nothing but a TV deals and empty tracks without them.

The owners have leverage over NASCAR, they provide the product. They could’ve joined 23XI and FRR in holding out and not signing the charter deal. Every other team owner decided that the charter agreement was fine. If they had spoken up and banded together, maybe we would get real change and...

The Brickyard 400 is only prestigious because it takes place at Indianapolis, not because of anything related to stock car racing. It’s 100% trading on IndyCar history. It’s prestigious because of kids like Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, and Kyle Larson who grew up in open wheel. The Brickyard 400...

When you look at a conspiracy theory, you have to ask if the effort is worth the end result. Why would NASCAR need to falsify a positive meth test to get rid of a guy who was a back marker in his own equipment? It makes no sense. Mayfield is taking some of you for a ride and you’re happily...

Actual analysis is a weak point for Slap. I remember a video where he argued that Greenville, SC deserved a track because they had five within a 2.5 hour drive. That’s not the conclusion that his data supported. If anything, it’s an a huge argument against Greenville having a track. He’s a...

The quickest way to become a fan favorite among some in the NASCAR "fan" community is to make up conspiracies against the sanctioning body or otherwise attack them in some way. Jeremy Mayfield has used this to his advantage to gain some fans. Nuance is lost on some.

Tim Richmond was also during the peak of AIDS hysteria. What NASCAR did was obviously wrong, but there's no parallel to Mayfield. What did NASCAR have to gain by ruining the life of a loudmouth backmarker?

Mayfield is a two bit grifter whose sob story lost all credibility when he was actually arrested for having meth. When NASCAR suspended him, he was on his way out anyway. He was reduced to driving for himself after burning his bridge with Evernham. His two rides afterwards were with a pre-SHR...

That’s the problem. There was nothing they could do. You don’t get change without upending the sport without a critical mass of owners (or less likely sponsors) giving a ****. Maybe NASCAR settles or the judge prescribes a remedy that actually fixes things. As I said from the onset, this is...

Also any good lawyer will tell you to never write something you wouldn’t want read on the front page of the newspaper.

You don’t renovate your house by taking a wrecking ball to it. The owners should have stood together and refused to sign a charter agreement until they got a fair deal. This lawsuit is a reckless move that could radically alter the sport in a way that makes the CART/IRL split look like a day at...

They’ll still be rich at the end of the day.

NASCAR is inept and Dennis is an impulsive idiot. This trial could blow up the entire sport and neither side is willing to put their egos aside and work together to prevent that.

If you do the original Chase then you need to increase the points spread from 1-10. The original incarnation was only 45 points (or roughly 10-12 points in the current points system). It was probably the worst system for rewarding full season performance. With the exception of the winner take...

I can’t wait to see how Denny chokes in the next championship format.

This would be the year that we get a 40 car field and Denny Hamlin crashes and finishes 37th in the 500.

If you run the math, the 3-3-4 format is the fairest “postseason” format. Playoff points carry to each round so it would actually reward full season performance. For example, Kyle Busch tanked in the 2008 Chase despite leading the points all year. He would have made the Championship Four in a...

Four bros who are totally unrelated to NASCAR.