Whizzer
Gig'em
What a race !!!! Really like Pocono with the three individual turns to contend with and nearly impossible to set up for. Flat turns, different angles and banking, designed to test a drivers mettle. But the fans don't like it. Pocono is boring !!!! They want a Bristol every week, or a Daytona / Talledega where the restrictor plates keep them close. But that is not racing, or at least not the way I grew up with it.
Today, the changes being made can be expressed in one word, they SUCK !!!!!
What the dickens is this points system. As of the last race on August 1, 2004, only two drivers are within 400 points of leader, Jimmy Johnson. Yet the remaining seven teams in the top ten continue to be eligible to run for the championship. And that too, SUCKS !!!!!!! So much for busting your azz the first part of the season.
It beats me why a team in the top ten, yet more than 400 points out of first place, be given a fresh start with the
biggest deficit 50 points behind the leader??
They did not earn it.
Brian France and NASCAR, I do not like it. It might raise television ratings, but there are some things more important than television ratings.
The green/ white/ checker finish ??? Rusty is right !!!! It is a receipe for disaster and torn up race cars. The Earnhardt, Jr. fans got their wish after Talledega and helped create this particular monster.
Irony would be a G/W/C finish and Junior becoming a victim of the change demanded by his fans. What will happen then ??
Will the Earnhardt, Jr., fans can throw more crap on the track and ask NASCAR to change the rule again ??? There was nothing wrong with the red flag rule to begin with.
How about the "lucky dog" pass ??? Ryan Newman, a talented driver, would never have finished thirteenth, no matter his skill, had it not been for the new rule. What kind of crap is this giving a driver something he did not earn??? If a driver wants a lap back, he should earn it. There should be no free lunch. America was built on earning your own way.
Someone mentioned shortening the races on another thread.
Another sore spot.
The five hundred miles at Pocono are a real test of the driver, teams and equipment, and strategies, something that doesn't happen too often in shorter races. All of these things should be tested just as we all need to be pushed to our limits at times.
Cutting the race times and distances are a throwback to the age of "new fans". The ones who like the excitement of the crash, the shorter races as it entertains the one hour and forty-five minute time span psychologists tell us is our time frame for a spectator activity. The changes are made for the "I want it now" yuppie group and if you don't agree, you fall into the category with the "yuppie, I want it now" group.
Go ahead, voice your opinion, give it your best shot.
Something tells me, 90% of those who read this have been fans for less than ten years and fewer than 1%, twenty-five years or more.
The time frames mentioned of being a race fan do not include when your Pappy took you to your first race at the age of three or four.
We're talking an age where you understood racing was something other than picking a favorite driver because you liked the color or number on the car.
The comprehension sinks in about the age of fourteen or fifteen when the fan understands what it is that takes place before, during and after a race. And why.
The old Whizzer is bitter and angry. This is a sport that was built on strength, dering-do, hard times and fun. The newer generation has wanted change because they never understood it in the first place. Wonder what the next "yuppie, DINK or WASP" thing will be ???
Before anyone either tells me or asks, I admit to being an old fart. I can accept most changes.
But not these changes.
They were made for the wrong reasons.
Today, the changes being made can be expressed in one word, they SUCK !!!!!
What the dickens is this points system. As of the last race on August 1, 2004, only two drivers are within 400 points of leader, Jimmy Johnson. Yet the remaining seven teams in the top ten continue to be eligible to run for the championship. And that too, SUCKS !!!!!!! So much for busting your azz the first part of the season.
It beats me why a team in the top ten, yet more than 400 points out of first place, be given a fresh start with the
biggest deficit 50 points behind the leader??
They did not earn it.
Brian France and NASCAR, I do not like it. It might raise television ratings, but there are some things more important than television ratings.
The green/ white/ checker finish ??? Rusty is right !!!! It is a receipe for disaster and torn up race cars. The Earnhardt, Jr. fans got their wish after Talledega and helped create this particular monster.
Irony would be a G/W/C finish and Junior becoming a victim of the change demanded by his fans. What will happen then ??
Will the Earnhardt, Jr., fans can throw more crap on the track and ask NASCAR to change the rule again ??? There was nothing wrong with the red flag rule to begin with.
How about the "lucky dog" pass ??? Ryan Newman, a talented driver, would never have finished thirteenth, no matter his skill, had it not been for the new rule. What kind of crap is this giving a driver something he did not earn??? If a driver wants a lap back, he should earn it. There should be no free lunch. America was built on earning your own way.
Someone mentioned shortening the races on another thread.
Another sore spot.
The five hundred miles at Pocono are a real test of the driver, teams and equipment, and strategies, something that doesn't happen too often in shorter races. All of these things should be tested just as we all need to be pushed to our limits at times.
Cutting the race times and distances are a throwback to the age of "new fans". The ones who like the excitement of the crash, the shorter races as it entertains the one hour and forty-five minute time span psychologists tell us is our time frame for a spectator activity. The changes are made for the "I want it now" yuppie group and if you don't agree, you fall into the category with the "yuppie, I want it now" group.
Go ahead, voice your opinion, give it your best shot.
Something tells me, 90% of those who read this have been fans for less than ten years and fewer than 1%, twenty-five years or more.
The time frames mentioned of being a race fan do not include when your Pappy took you to your first race at the age of three or four.
We're talking an age where you understood racing was something other than picking a favorite driver because you liked the color or number on the car.
The comprehension sinks in about the age of fourteen or fifteen when the fan understands what it is that takes place before, during and after a race. And why.
The old Whizzer is bitter and angry. This is a sport that was built on strength, dering-do, hard times and fun. The newer generation has wanted change because they never understood it in the first place. Wonder what the next "yuppie, DINK or WASP" thing will be ???
Before anyone either tells me or asks, I admit to being an old fart. I can accept most changes.
But not these changes.
They were made for the wrong reasons.
