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I think Nascar is becoming a joke. It is enough they have to push Danica on us, but the racing has become beyond boring. The drivers have becoming as boring as watching paint. Brian France has screwed with tradition. And the Fox color guys (especially DW and Larry Mac) are becoming caricatures. They think they are more important that the sport. Oh, how I miss the old days of Nascar.
 
blockracing.com said:
I think Nascar is becoming a joke. It is enough they have to push Danica on us, but the racing has become beyond boring. The drivers have becoming as boring as watching paint. Brian France has screwed with tradition. And the Fox color guys (especially DW and Larry Mac) are becoming caricatures. They think they are more important that the sport. Oh, how I miss the old days of Nascar.
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Ugh. Larry Mac is important. :D:beerbang:
 
The Fox guys have always thought they are more important. When you have Digger mechandise, DWstore.com, and buy this or that at foxsports.com, there you go. They've done this since almost day one.

The good thing about the messing with tradition is the fans that are still interested can get some pretty cheap tickets.
 
This isn't as bad as the Brickyard 400 two years ago, but Daytona's a joke today.
 
Actually, up until the pothole appeared, I've enjoyed the racing. Or maybe I should say the racing that FOX has allowed me to see.

The racing has been good --- the TV coverage has NOT been good.
 
Well the pothole was no fault of Nascar, mother nature and the age of the asphalt at Daytona had to do with that. The racing, what i saw of it anyway when I got home from work, was some of the best racing I've seen from Daytona in years! The threee wide 30 car parade was gone and these guys were passing and drafting like they should. Don't know what race you were watching, the one I saw was pretty damn good.
 
Mopardh9 said:
Well the pothole was no fault of Nascar, mother nature and the age of the asphalt at Daytona had to do with that. The racing, what i saw of it anyway when I got home from work, was some of the best racing I've seen from Daytona in years! The threee wide 30 car parade was gone and these guys were passing and drafting like they should. Don't know what race you were watching, the one I saw was pretty damn good.
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Completely agree about the track and race.

As far as the FOX crew goes..... You know what you're going to get with them each time you tune into a race. Turn the sound down and turn the radio on. You won't be disappointed.
 
I tried watching it from the start, but it seemed like the same plate "racing" I've seen for the last several years. Fabricated competition, everybody's car is the same and luck and getting in the right lane have a lot more to do with success than driver skill or even car set-up. When the predictable big wreck happened on about lap 12 it was almost too predictable. I am excited to watch an actual race next week though.
 
Benevolent One said:
I tried watching it from the start, but it seemed like the same plate "racing" I've seen for the last several years. Fabricated competition, everybody's car is the same and luck and getting in the right lane have a lot more to do with success than driver skill or even car set-up. When the predictable big wreck happened on about lap 12 it was almost too predictable. I am excited to watch an actual race next week though.
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I don't think you watched the same race as we did.:confused: There was no "big one," and there was legitimate passing and dicing all day long (except, of course, the two long delay periods.) The big wreck I think you're reffering to actually happened on lap 9, was towards the rear of the field, where cars were spread out quite a bit and only involved three back runners.
 
VaDirt said:
I don't think you watched the same race as we did.:confused: There was no "big one," and there was legitimate passing and dicing all day long (except, of course, the two long delay periods.) The big wreck I think you're reffering to actually happened on lap 9, was towards the rear of the field, where cars were spread out quite a bit and only involved three back runners.
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:beerbang:
 
Mopardh9 said:
Well the pothole was no fault of Nascar, mother nature and the age of the asphalt at Daytona had to do with that. The racing, what i saw of it anyway when I got home from work, was some of the best racing I've seen from Daytona in years! The threee wide 30 car parade was gone and these guys were passing and drafting like they should. Don't know what race you were watching, the one I saw was pretty damn good.
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I kinda felt it was nascars fault. After all, they own the track as well as the sport. It would seem to me, the biggest race of the year, on their property would have went off without a hitch. Being the Marquee event of the year, that track should be paved every 15-20 years, to prevent this sort of thing.
France family dropped the ball, big time.
Kinda embarrassing that Jeff Hammond brags about "Where else can you go and get half-time interviews with the athletes?" It was sad to watch the announcers try to turn that sad state of affairs into something exciting.
The racing was better than i've seen in years there. Finishes are always nail biters, but atleast they didn't get strung out during the middle of the race.
MoMike
 
Daytona is still the Greatest of them all. The racing was good, and to no fault of NASCAR that Global warming has set in and is destroying the sport we love.:sarcasm:

I do agree the track is long overdo for a new coat of asphalt. Dega just got one and the drivers have loved it. Come on racing superfamily, drop a few dimes and get a new racing surface so we don't have to sit through that mess again. Any other race but the Daytona 500, and I would have ended up comatosed on the couch.
 
MoMike said:
I kinda felt it was nascars fault. After all, they own the track as well as the sport. It would seem to me, the biggest race of the year, on their property would have went off without a hitch. Being the Marquee event of the year, that track should be paved every 15-20 years, to prevent this sort of thing.
France family dropped the ball, big time.
Kinda embarrassing that Jeff Hammond brags about "Where else can you go and get half-time interviews with the athletes?" It was sad to watch the announcers try to turn that sad state of affairs into something exciting.
The racing was better than i've seen in years there. Finishes are always nail biters, but atleast they didn't get strung out during the middle of the race.
MoMike
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Did Hammond really say that? If so, he's a moron. They interview the players all the time during intermission in NHL.
 
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I get the biggest kick out of watching MacReynolds standing in the middle of DW, and Mike Joy.
Anyhow Larry Mac is like 12 inches shorter than the rest of them, and you can tell he's standing on a stool, or something. They look like "larry,curly, and moe.
MoMike
 
I wish DW would get permanent laryngitis. He gets on my last nerve!
 
What happens when you beat a dog long enough? It becomes timid and runs around with its tail between its legs.

This is what nascar has done to the drivers. Ever time one trying to speak oput they fine him and beat him down. So now Nascar wants to take the gloves off and let them have there fun, but they are to scared to.

They started letting loss by the end and we had a nice finish. I was enjoying the finish.

Can't say much about the pot whole, stuff like that happens.

The TV coverage is a joke, You get 3-4 laps then 15 mins of commercials. I have more fun at the races. There was only one good commercial and Coke pulled that one off.
 
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