Busch Series needs a Chase...

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I'm sorry I'm a huge fan of Kevin Harvick but this is ridiculous: 699 points advantadge over 2nd place Carl Edwards?
 
I know last year, many of the "experts" that were against ther Chase kept pointing to the Busch Series as a reason why not to have a Chase. They had a close battle going on last year. In a given year, something like this is bound to happen.
 
The top ten Busch Teams based on current points (in my case meaning - these guys drive Busch cars, period - or drive a VERY limited Cup schedule)-

1- Menard
2- Leffler
3- Andretti
4- Wood
5- Lewis
6- Compton
7- Lamar
8- O'Quinn Jr.
9- Jay Sauter
10- McFarland

Hell, I'd actually watch Busch races if these were the guys vying for the Championship. I'm barely watching Cup races anymore. They don't need a Chase, they need to limit the races established Cup guys can run. It doesn't make race fans watch - it bores us to death.

- k y l e
 
Kyle, may I ask why you watch any racing in the first place? If the Cuppers were to actually show up and race weekly at my local track, I'd still be there watching and hootin' and hollerin' as normal. I watch racing to see racing, not to see certain people race. While I will agree that the Busch Series needs some changes in order to allow more newer drivers to be able to make the field, it takes those changes in order to get that done.

In the days when the Busch series raced 6 cylinder engines, it was really a second tier series such as the way the Craftsman Truck Series is today. NASCAR would pay three, four or five Cuppers to make an appearance to help bolster the crowd. Because the cars were so different, those Cuppers weren't able to gain much of an advantage if they drove there. Now days, it's quite different and much can be learned for Sunday's race by driving on Saturday. If this wasn't a fact, why oh why does every top Cup owner have at least one car, if not more, entered in each Busch race and most of those entries are driven by regular Cup drivers.

Back to the subject of the thread, I agree that the Busch Series indeed needs the Chase as does the truck series.
 
They just need to separate the Busch races from the Cup races so they are at a different track most weekends. Busch is almost to a point they can sustain themselves. And, let the Trucks team with Cup to get more people interested. Cover more area. Bring in more fans.
 
barelypure said:
They just need to separate the Busch races from the Cup races so they are at a different track most weekends. Busch is almost to a point they can sustain themselves. And, let the Trucks team with Cup to get more people interested. Cover more area. Bring in more fans.
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Uh, BP? THAT MAKES SENSE!

I still like the idea os a chase for Busch and limiting full time Cup drivers to maybe 7 races per season.
 
buckaroo said:
Kyle, may I ask why you watch any racing in the first place?
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I watch racing to see racing. Not; "I've got a 700 point lead, so let's see - right, to keep the Championship I have to finish."

The Busch series should be about drivers getting a chance at getting a Cup ride. So, hear me out.

If they limit a Cup driver's races to seven as someone suggested, you have a real opportunity to have newer drivers, not to mention newer crew chiefs, get the expirence of having a points battle, leading races, managing cars. The Busch series will do what it was designed to - get newer drivers ready for Cup. 10 years ago - Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, and Reed Sorenson would be full-time Busch drivers. That's not taking anything away from them as drivers, they've proven they can handle a Cup car.

Or, let's do this - the English Premier League (soccer) has a cool system for it's minor leagues which would be great implemented in any sport, and I think especially NASCAR here. There's two divisions, the Championship (lower), and the Premiership (big time). Each season, the top 3 from the Championship move up to the Premiership, and the bottom three from the Premiership move down. To translate to NASCAR - the top 10 teams in Busch go to Cup, and the bottom 10 teams in Cup go to Busch and there's no intermingling of the drivers on either side. All the specs are the same, the cars are exactly alike. THEN the points mean something in Busch. THEN, we'll see some racing.

edit: Oh, and in the Premiership, you can't own more than two teams. Let's implement that too.

- k y l e
 
Oh c'mon Kyle!!

That would put the "race" back in racing.. What we are seeing every week is more about advertising and money than it is about racing..
Betsy :rolleyes:
 
Kyle, you have some great points and I don't disagree with any of them. The argument you are using is one that a lower tier car owner would use. These days, the Cup owners don't just use the Busch series for "training", but also ARCA and anywhere else they can use. Before the mid 90's, the series was totally different than the Cup series and NASCAR would have to pay popular drivers money just to drive in a race. It's different now days and it pays off in many ways for Cup teams to learn on Saturday what will run better on Sunday. If you really want to make changes so top drivers don't dominate the series, change the cars back to where they used to be... i.e. six cylinders. :eek: That'll do plenty for the series as well as get more new people into the sport.
 
If you remember when they ran the v6, they had the same if not more power in them then they did in the cup cars.
 
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