I would expect Nascar to hold an announcement about the championship format in reserve, in case of adverse news about the 23XI/FRM lawsuit. If Nascar wants to dilute media coverage about the lawsuit, trotting out a new and better championship format would be a useful way to do that.
Call it the race for the championship this January at Daytona and driver so in so won the championship 36 races later.
Under Brian's leadership that may have been a selling point.
After the Daytona 500, cut the field to the top 36 cars. Those cars will compete for the title over the next 35 playoff races.
Let's double down on that idea and go all in on elimination style. Starting at Daytona the last remaining charted car in points is eliminated from contention. Last man standing at Homestead is champion. Royal Rumble style. Just don't wreck in the 500.
Well, there's also the increase in the number of Truck / O'Reilly races Cup drivers are allowed to participate in.
Agreed. To be honest I still don’t know why we got rid of the Chase, that was awesome. Edwards/Stewart was the absolute pinnacle
Because we needed a guaranteed "game 7 moment"
1992 came down to the wire on a 36 race season. As did 2002.
NASCAR owns Homestead. Who is the track paying, if anyone? And if it is paying someone, it seemed happy to pay them when it was in the middle of the schedule.
That doesn't mean those other drivers are taking things out of Denny's hands (his words). Dude, it's the format y'all are handed. You can't blame people for taking advantage of the rules. The system doesn't award mediocrity as much as it doesn't award performance.
Dumb Hamcrap whines about his loss, dumps on nearly all drivers claiming they support the one race championship that is so unfair, because HIS GREATNESS lost his in an instant, whereas mediocre drivers win one that way (obvious reference to Logano). Dip$#*+ still hasn’t checked his points I suppose…in any points battle you weren’t even in the race for a championship that day. Says if he had won, he was going to beg Joe to retire. Now says he’s back for one more run at it. Well I hope he one and done, with another strikeout loss to end the career.
I don’t think he’s speaking for himself in this instance? I also think your right, 4 tires was the wrong call and at that point it’s on his CC. The GWC to decide races is a whole different rule I’d wish they’d launch but I digress here.
Just because they’re handed a format doesn’t make it a good one and at the very least doesn’t put it above criticism. They took advantage of $hitty rules, I think that can be up for debate. From what I got from his podcast he’d have an easier time accepting defeat if the sample size was bigger.
It doesn't matter he still lost that one. During the 10 race chase he entered the final race in the lead and still managed to lose it.
BS. What Denny said is what he has been saying all along. He just spoke from the perspective of a guy who suffered the worst case scenario that he had been discussing before he was that guy. Not sure that I agree with him BTW, but it's hard to disagree with him too. I will say this....if the system was such ****, they why would he be so upset over losing with the said system? His point about mediocrity is the same thing the almighty Mark Martin is saying....just that it's Denny.
