You really need to get some new announcers, Jeff Burton I admire as a great driver, but he does not have a good voice, not good enough to be the voice of NASCAR on telecasts. His voice gets very squeaky especially when he gets excited. Sorry to say so does Dale Jr.
The experiment to go to the radio style MRN broadcast was painful. These announcers did not have the experience that the MRN announcers do and that showed .
Why do you not use Dale Jarrett for the Monster Energy series, he does a great job as the lead announcer for the other series.
Ways to improve the series :
1) Use the Delaware Restart System which allows drivers to choose which lane than want to start in. Most tracks have a preferred lane and that often puts the 2nd place car at a disadvantage,.
2) Narrow the restart zone, I see many times that the leader gets a huge advantage by taking off as soon as he gets into the zone. The tracks have a line across the track to show the finish line, create another line, maybe in yellow to show the beginning of the restart zone.
3) On caution flags, cars should not be allowed to make up positions ( pass) under the yellow, it is a NASCAR rule, but they do it all the time in the pits during caution and that creates a dangerous situation for the pit crew members and the officials. Under a caution the pits become over crowded as sometimes the majority of the cars all come in at the same time. Many, many accidents have happened on pit road because of of this which have caused injuries and even fatalities. Nascar has bragged about racing being won or lost in the pits, which is usually because one team had a split second faster pit stop,. We fans prefer to see the race won on the track !
Cars should be aligned in the order they were running with the following rules, A) cars only taking on fuel
are go first,
cars taking only 2 tires go next, C) cars taking on 4 tires are next, D) cars making any major body repairs go last. * using the "Choose" lane procedure.
4) Nascar's overtime rule needs to be expanded to 3 laps of competition instead of just two as at many larger tracks it sometimes takes a whole lap to get up to speed. If a caution comes out during that restart, then go to the current green, white checkered two lap. If a caution comes out during that then go to a 1 lap sprint to the finish. If a caution comes out during the 3rd attempt then the race should be called as the cars were running at the time of the caution.
5) Nascar should go back to weighing the car with the driver, currently all cars must weigh the same which gives a team with the lightest weight driver an advantage. No team should be given an advantage over another.
6) Nascar should limit the number of tires that teams are allowed to use during a race. This will force teams into using more strategy .
7 ) Do away with Restrictor Plate racing. These were brought in to slow cars down as they were becoming airborne during a spin, but now these cars have flaps to stop that from happening. Allow teams to have the option on the size of the motor and require cars with bigger motors to weigh more. as Nascar used to do.
Allow teams to have more rear gear options as well .
* personal note : please quit referring to NASCAR as high a speed chess match, it has nothing to do with chess and is actually more like checkers.
What fans want to see is fast paced racing with bumper banging, fender bending, door handle to door handle side by side racing with lots of passing and on track lead changes. We are tired of these 4, 5, or even longer bore-a-thon single file freight train racing with the only lead changes are due to pitting. We want to see the races won on the track and not in the pit area by one team having a split second faster pit stop.
We are sick of what appears to be NASCAR helping some drivers with phantom cautions or handing out supposedly pit road infractions to teams that are having an unexpected good run. Reference Juan Montoya at Indy Brickyard 400, penalized by going 0.5 mph too fast on pit road. A half mile an hour too fast. No court in the world would uphold a speeding violation of a half mile an hour especially when you realize these cars do not have speedometers. Could NASCAR state their equipment to monitor that difference as 100% accurate ?
Ever notice that when cars come into pit, some cars are bumper to bumper coming in but every once in a while one car will slow all the cars behind him by allowing the car in front of him to gain some space giving that car in front an advantage over all the others ?
Have you noticed that since cars are required to have all the lug nuts on the wheels that the Hendricks teams are not competitive any more ? The #24 and #48 seemed to pass more cars in the pit area than on the track and once they got that car out front no one could catch it. Nascar tried to pass a rule that a car was only required to have 3 or even just 2 lug nuts on a wheel, but quickly turned 180 degrees and stated that cars had to have all 5 lug nuts on all the wheels. Why the sudden and totally different decision.
Manufacturers state that on changing a tire all lug nuts must be placed back on the wheel.
Years ago NASCAR was the fastest growing sport in this country and they were losing their old loyal fan base but did not care as there were more coming in to take their places, but what NASCAR did not realize that these new fans were not as loyal ? These new fans came to see what it was all about, just curious, then they lost interest and left. Look at all the empty seats. This after some tracks removed of thousands of seats.
NASCAR needs to start listening to the fans. Their loyal fans.
