That article reads like some articles that I read on onion.com
Thanks for the laugh.
Jalopnik is The Onion when it comes to the auto industry and racing. Except they're trying to take themselves seriously when their editors are a bunch of glue sniffing chimps.
For one thing, anything NASCAR related they post on their site should be ignored. They are hardcore F1 fans who sincerly believe F1 is the best racing in the world, and trash-talk about anything else.
I stopped reading that article after the first item. Drivers frequently winning from pole? In the 31 points races so far this year, only 7 have been won by the pole sitter (22%). Compared to F1 where of the 16 races this year, 9 have been won from pole (54%). Double the number from NASCAR. And most of those wins in F1 come with no lead changes during the entire race. I think the last time NASCAR went without a lead change was in 2002? I want to say it was Jeff Burton that lead all laps.
What this boils down to is a rant by the Jalopnik editors that has no basis in fact or reality. What they're basically doing is having a fantasy where in their own little world they'd create the ultimate racing series where things like physics, time, and logic do not apply. While we're at it, lets add guns to the cars, and dinosaurs on the track! RAWR!!!!
Although they do make one good point about racing on street courses, it's lost under the tsunami of crap that is the rest of the article. Racing on ovals and road courses at the same time? Racing on ice? Using rain tires on the high banks of Talladega? Seriously?
I volunteer the editors of Jalopnik to test that out. Let me know how that goes if you're still alive afterwards.
