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I really enjoy the stages and the playoffs but I would like to see the points system a little less complicated.
 
It's interesting that many of Larson's outspoken critics said that Larson was inconsistent. Larson wrecked a lot and was all over the place. Not this year and he won the jackpot lottery without winning the race.

Larson finished the year with three wins but none over the final 24 races. He did earn the most points throughout the season, so he arguably was the most consistent, while Hamlin won six times.
 
StandOnIt said:
It's interesting that many of Larson's outspoken critics said that Larson was inconsistent. Larson wrecked a lot and was all over the place. Not this year and he won the jackpot lottery without winning the race.

Larson finished the year with three wins but none over the final 24 races. He did earn the most points throughout the season, so he arguably was the most consistent, while Hamlin won six times.
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They are idiots. Anybody with half a clue knows that the championship runs through Larson.
 
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wi_racefan said:
I'm sorry I don't buy that anymore. I think its just his fan base voting dedication at this point.
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And how is that different than it has EVER been? Surely you don't actually believe Chase's dad was the MPD all those years do you?
 
Revman said:
I like how it says "Toyota Home" in the background. Maybe one of the media in Japan can ask how this came to be a Chevy.
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I'm sure you'll disagree, but I don't think this car would have generated even half as much of the interest it has if it was a Toyota. It simply HAD to be a Camaro or Mustang. Obnoxious rip snorting American muscle car with a big American style V8. Having a fake four door grocery getter with a very non-Japanese type engine wouldn't have had nearly the impact. Look at how the Europeans have made such a huge fuss over the Corvettes since they started going to Lemans in 2001. Even the snotty French drool over them.
 
Formerjackman said:
I'm sure you'll disagree, but I don't think this car would have generated even half as much of the interest it has if it was a Toyota. It simply HAD to be a Camaro or Mustang. Obnoxious rip snorting American muscle car with a big American style V8. Having a fake four door grocery getter with a very non-Japanese type engine wouldn't have had nearly the impact. Look at how the Europeans have made such a huge fuss over the Corvettes since they started going to Lemans in 2001. Even the snotty French drool over them.
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Facts
 
Formerjackman said:
I'm sure you'll disagree, but I don't think this car would have generated even half as much of the interest it has if it was a Toyota. It simply HAD to be a Camaro or Mustang. Obnoxious rip snorting American muscle car with a big American style V8. Having a fake four door grocery getter with a very non-Japanese type engine wouldn't have had nearly the impact. Look at how the Europeans have made such a huge fuss over the Corvettes since they started going to Lemans in 2001. Even the snotty French drool over them.
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I think the idea was for the thing to represent NASCAR....maybe a collab.....but Jim wasn't having it.
 
Revman said:
I think the idea was for the thing to represent NASCAR....maybe a collab.....but Jim wasn't having it.
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How do you collaborate? Put a Chevy engine in a Camry? Build a generic car that isn't anything? Could it be that the goal was to align with one team that could basically do the job 100% in house under one roof? Why not just acknowledge that the Chevy-HMS team knocked it out of the park and move on? I don't think the project would have been driven to perfection if it had involved multiple manufacturers. That would have made really just a NASCAR thing. In this case, Chevy and HMS stuck their neck out a mile and risked being humiliated if they failed. Rick Hendrick put that project on his back and absolutely was not going to let it fail. I think once they got started, he would have funded the whole thing out of his pocket if he had to. Failure simply wasn't an option. I don't think any multi-manufacturer effort would have could have duplicated that.
 
Formerjackman said:
How do you collaborate? Put a Chevy engine in a Camry? Build a generic car that isn't anything? Could it be that the goal was to align with one team that could basically do the job 100% in house under one roof? Why not just acknowledge that the Chevy-HMS team knocked it out of the park and move on? I don't think the project would have been driven to perfection if it had involved multiple manufacturers. That would have made really just a NASCAR thing. In this case, Chevy and HMS stuck their neck out a mile and risked being humiliated if they failed. Rick Hendrick put that project on his back and absolutely was not going to let it fail. I think once they got started, he would have funded the whole thing out of his pocket if he had to. Failure simply wasn't an option. I don't think any multi-manufacturer effort would have could have duplicated that.
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The other manufacturers were never even asked, so we will never know. Fact. Help me with this....what was the metric for success here? Did that thing win something?...and wasn't is supposed to be a "NASCAR thing?" Stuck their necks out? Who were they racing? Multi-manufacturer efforts would have failed....Excuse me....are you talking about the Next Gen car? Come on man.
 
I don't see the problem with NASCAR going to Le Mans with its winningest manufacturer's winningest team. I say that as someone whose favorite driver drove both Fords and Toyotas and never sat in a Chevy in his Cup career.
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Help me with this....what was the metric for success here?
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This was a publicity stunt, nothing more or less. Absolutely no one expected the car to compete for the overall win. Success was measured by how much attention it got, not how well it did on the track. The 'manual jack' pit crew certainly garnered attention with their performance, although that's not to say another crew wouldn't have done as well. I recall after qualifying the car was actually moved up the starting grid to a class ahead of the one it was original slated to start with. I'd call that another measure of success.

Would a Mustang from Penske have had the same effect? Possibly. Would Gibbs Toyota? I don't see the same effect for a brand or team that isn't as strongly associated with NASCAR.
 
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