Emphasis on the word "influenced" as in your neighbor saying, "Paint your fugly house that I've had to look at for 20 years or I'll break your legs."
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Emphasis on the word "influenced" as in your neighbor saying, "Paint your fugly house that I've had to look at for 20 years or I'll break your legs."
Everything Jeff said after the 0:20 mark is about the original decision to implement the playoffs. Notice everything he says after that point uses the past tense. I don't think anything he said relates to the current situation, at least not in the quoted 1-minute segment. He may have elsewhere in the podcast.
So this 'He said, he said' conflict ain't as it first appears. Burton is talking about twenty years ago, Gluck is talking about next year.
I don't see how expanding the final four to six will help anything, other than giving the Gerbils two more cars to obsess over. The problem isn't the number of cars involved, it's the 'single race / winner take all' format. Indeed, the more cars eligible, the less like a season-dominating driver will win the title.
I thought the same thing. He was there when crazy Brian came up with the stick n ball idea. I can't remember who besides Gluck, but another one who was there in the meeting recently said that the TV people haven't said anything pro or con. That IMO is a decision in itself.
I don't think the playoffs back then were the whole problem, the clownish tire cutting car of tomorrow, lack of good racing on the cookie cutters, in other words Brian France's reign was a huge contribution to the changes for the worse decline.
Kinda like that old saying, when third generation takes over family business, they mess it all up.