Looks like my popcorn bucket needs to be refilled.
Well, that takes the heat off the Steve Phelps deal and holding people accountable.
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Well, that takes the heat off the Steve Phelps deal and holding people accountable.
A bit early considering there has been only one race. They still have the fudging up the points later in the season though. I'm guessing/hoping it isn't as bad as the previous mess they had.
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I'm a life-long fan of Richard Petty and I think he is misses the days when he was the big dog, the days when a few drivers dominated NASCAR - glory days. I think they mostly dominated because they had advantages over the field such as a national sponsor, the technical backing from Chrysler, Ford, or GM; the NASCAR champion got the first pit stall for the entire year. They didn't have multi car teams back in the day so the team that figured out something new was able to have a dominant driver. A dominate driver could lap the field. These days the dominate drivers come from the big teams and they make up a significant number of drivers.
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I think the Chase format will make familiar championship front runners each year that will spawn rivalries and dare I say maybe a Dynasty or two if the Honcho's stick with it for a while. I do have some icky feelings from 2006-10 but thats more because my racing hero was getting his ass kicked by a guy in the same equipment on the same team, so thats on me. But I think Richard end up feeling okay about things if this format is allowed to breath for a bit while giving us a sizable sample size over time.
I haven't thought much about it overall, but I will never get over resetting the points and discriminating against the drivers below the "cut line". We see it all the time where a team can get on a hot streak and move forward. This practice of resetting the points prohibits that from happening. In fact the network tries to forget that any of them below their self imposed line are racing on the track. Every position means a lot to those lower echelon teams. A hot streak could mean multi millions to those teams.
At least now the drivers locked into the top 16 will actually be IN the top 16 when the 'regular season' ends, not 28th and gaining a dozen unearned positions.
Yeah that part is better, it was a double insult for a last place team win to knock out a team that was in the playoff group legitimately but the points reset is bogus.
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Well said.
The current system is better than the win and you are in garbage, but I also still hate the resets in any form. They disrespect the body of work and force some teams into a needless lame duck situation.
Not going to miss the gerbs and the cameras focused for half the race or more trying to get us to swallow the will he make the cut line cut off fake drama. Ruins the whole continuity of the race.
You can't build stars when the broadcasts focus on the drop-outs.