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Is the ugliest thing I've ever laid two eyes on. :bleh:

The thing is fugly and they're all sideways loose. Is NASCAR purposely trying to drive its fans away.
 
AndyMarquisLIVE said:
Is the ugliest thing I've ever laid two eyes on. :bleh:

The thing is fugly and they're all sideways loose. Is NASCAR purposely trying to drive its fans away.
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Loose? Everyone was complaining about being way to tight in practice...:confused:
 
I was up there for happy hour. If you don't look at the wing on the back they don't look that much different.
 
They look fine to me hopefully when they get on the superspeedways we will have goood racing. I'm more worried about how they run on the 1.5 and 2.0 miles tracks than how they can get around Bristol. It will be a crash fest as usual. I'm not a big fan of putting 43 Cup cars on a half mile track and letting them play bumper cars for 500 laps.
 
Is it just me or did Dodge do a horrible job at trying to make the Avenger look good? The look reminds me of a cheap matchbox or hot wheels car. I think the Toyotas look the best out of the bunch. I'll give the Impala's second, and Ford third.
 
I'm getting used to the cars. The front splitter is hardly noticeable, and the wing really doesn't bother me.

Like others, I want to see the pack at the big tracks. If it makes for better racing, I don't care if they mandate pink wings with green polka-dots.
 
It's ot a Stock Car! It's an Indy car thats trying to look like a stock car. Nascar is loosing me, where are the bumpers!
 
i dont mind the car at all.. i just wish they would paint the wing! its stupid that its just black, it just sticks out..
 
Mopardh9 said:
They look fine to me hopefully when they get on the superspeedways we will have goood racing. I'm more worried about how they run on the 1.5 and 2.0 miles tracks than how they can get around Bristol. It will be a crash fest as usual. I'm not a big fan of putting 43 Cup cars on a half mile track and letting them play bumper cars for 500 laps.
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You don't like short track racing? That is my favorite.
 
COT doesn't bother me a bit.... hardly noticable to me during the race... the splitter and the spoiler just didn't stick out with other cars around like they did in the 'hype photos.'
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I'm getting used to the cars. The front splitter is hardly noticeable, and the wing really doesn't bother me.

Like others, I want to see the pack at the big tracks. If it makes for better racing, I don't care if they mandate pink wings with green polka-dots.
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Yeah, the front splitter is hardly noticeable until it goes under another guys back bumper and cuts down their car because it sticks out from the fenders. They need to grind that sucker down and make it really sharp then we'd have a real ol' timey chariot race.

Now I wonder if they'll reduce the size of the splitter so it doesn't extend beyond the fenders.
 
tkj24 said:
You don't like short track racing? That is my favorite.
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I like short track racing when there are 25-30 modifides battling it out on a half mile, but when you get 43 full bodied stock cars on a track like Bristol or Martinsville it is just too crowded IMO.
 
Mopardh9 said:
I like short track racing when there are 25-30 modifides battling it out on a half mile, but when you get 43 full bodied stock cars on a track like Bristol or Martinsville it is just too crowded IMO.
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If you don't like the crowding, then you wouldn't like the mods racing at Bowman Gray Stadium where they get 24 of those mods running around a totally flat 1/4 mile track. Buuuuuuuuutttttttttt we can't wait for the first race in just over a month. :)

I don't know, but you can call me crazy. I love racing period, whether it's on a 1/4 mile track, figure 8, half miler or what. Even those straight liners are good for me and don't forget the mudders or the swamp buggies either. But to me, the most exciting is the short track racing.
 
I was at Bristol yesterday and didn't think of them being any different once they got to racing. They were just cars out there racing.
 
MRM said:
I was at Bristol yesterday and didn't think of them being any different once they got to racing. They were just cars out there racing.
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I agree, looking at the cars from the stands I think they look the same. My cousin said he looked at them from down at trackside and said they looked like a bubble.
 
tkj24 said:
You don't like short track racing? That is my favorite.
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I don't care for it. I think NHIS and Martinsville are by far the two dullest tracks they race on. I thought this past Bristol race was right up there with those other two tracks. I will say I'm not a fan at all of truck racing. Puts me right to sleep within 5-10 laps. It all comes from my belief that trucks carry stuff. If they wanted to chuck a refrigerator or a nice 10 pt. buck in the back and drive around in circles I might actually watch one then, but until then I'll pass. These cars of tomorrow to me look way to close to what a truck looks like so I was bored stiff and dozed off several times. I saw the last 25 laps or so and by the reaction from the drivers and the media reviews I seen and heard, I used the sleeping time wisely. On the other hand, mile and a half tri-ovals have me riveted to the edge of my seat. It was also a slower race than normal. My vote goes to scrapping this COT thing and staying with the cars they raced the first 4 races. Like someone else mentioned, Nascar is starting to lose me as a fan and I've been one since the mid 70's.:mad:
 
TKay said:
Nascar is starting to lose me as a fan and I've been one since the mid 70's.:mad:
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Nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you watch the races.

More of the same old same old. People, if you don't like what you see, skip it and watch something else. But for crying out loud, this complaining about what and where NASCAR is and is going is really old. So you don't like the COT, just one more reason to turn off the TV. Don't like the short tracks, they are heading the way of southern racing, so in a few years, you won't have to suffer through any of them. You don't like foreign brand cars in the circuit, again, turn off the TV. These things are what is today's NASCAR and it isn't going to change any time soon. Head out to your local track and watch some better action anyway. Those guys aren't overpaid gazilllionaires who complain that they don't like the car that they just won a race in. :rolleyes:
 
I didn't really notice any difference once they got going. It did seem like they were being a little more "careful" (in quotes because it's impossible to be careful at Bristol) than they usually would be possibly due to a sense of unfamiliarity being in the COT. Other than that, I thought the actual racing was just as good, if not better, than before. I've never seen so many passes on the outside at Bristol...dunno if the COT had any effect on that, but it was wild!
 
jeefunk said:
I didn't really notice any difference once they got going. It did seem like they were being a little more "careful" (in quotes because it's impossible to be careful at Bristol) than they usually would be possibly due to a sense of unfamiliarity being in the COT. Other than that, I thought the actual racing was just as good, if not better, than before. I've never seen so many passes on the outside at Bristol...dunno if the COT had any effect on that, but it was wild!
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Kyle Busch was passing on the outside in the Busch race. They had the old cars.
 
COT

They're going to have to work a lot harder to make me a fan of the COT. Watching identical cars going around the track is like watching an IROC race.

And I agree about the rear wing. Paint the thing!
 
Evil Dewars said:
They're going to have to work a lot harder to make me a fan of the COT. Watching identical cars going around the track is like watching an IROC race.

And I agree about the rear wing. Paint the thing!
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They have to give the rear wing back to NASCAR when the race is over. Sortof like the restrictor plate deal.
 
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