How Do We Fix Plate Racing

Fixing plate racing to fast food aficionados. We've got it all.

Since we're talking fast food now..... I look at it as different levels. Sure some fast food places are better than McDonald's but heck, you get what you pay for. McD's is cheap and fast. We hit them all the time when we're on the road and time is needing to be saved. There is one at most every exit along the interstate and normally allows for big rig and RV parking. Burger King is a backup. Hardee's, Wendy's, Arby's all serve their purpose. I really don't think anyone walks into McDonald's thinking they are getting a good quality product. It's food and fat calories on the cheap. Sometimes that works just fine.

I don't know how to fix the plate racing but I know a bad burger when I eat one.
 
Simple Fan said:
Nope, have Hardee's but I really don't care for their burgers, if I go to Hardee's its for breakfast. It's the pepper in a McDonald's burgers I like.
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Its the same thing, just different names, but I agree, I dont find myself craving a Hardee's Jr/Cardees Jr. Burger very often, there are better burgers to be had elsewhere, but the breakfast, yes, those are good, My dad would take me there for breakfast all the time when I was kid.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
The goal shouldn't be to 'fix' plate racing. Plate racing is itself an attempt to fix the real problem - cars travellng too fast to safely remain out of the grandstands. The question should be, what are the alternatives to plate racing.

I'm with AML - reconfigure the tracks. But I'd be happy with any solution that didn't require 8 bazillion exceptions to the rule book for these four races.
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In that case you only need a chicane front and back. With the plates removed and the engines tuned for the chicane's, problem solved.
 
Keep the Daytona 500 a plate race, run the July race on the road course. Talladega either meets the bulldozers entirely, or the banking is knocked down.
 
Larsonfan1995 said:
Keep the Daytona 500 a plate race, run the July race on the road course. Talladega either meets the bulldozers entirely, or the banking is knocked down.
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I'll never understand this thinking. Tearing the banking down at Talladega would make an awful track. If anything they need to add banking to some tracks.
 
Simple Fan said:
Plate racing is the most exciting racing NASCAR produces. It's also the most watched style of racing for them but this place is just weird on stuff like that. Short tracks are slow and boring, only good one is Bristol, well Richmond as well if you want to count it. Road courses have been better in recent years but are still the worst racing in NASCAR. I'm all about the speed, give me a Superspeedway or a mile and a half all day over short tracks and road courses.
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You must just love drag racing. All that matters is driver reaction and speed.
 
is there ANY way we could take the plates off and keep the cars on the ground?
 
DanicaFreak said:
is there ANY way we could take the plates off and keep the cars on the ground?
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You mean without altering the tracks or engines? I guess NASCAR could raise the minimum weight by about 2000 pounds or so. Maybe jack the cars up six inches or so to give clearance for a set of baffles / airflow disruptors under the cars. Move the grandstands to the back, since most lift-offs take place on the front stretch at the end of a race / stage.
 
They need to either change the track or change the cars so you have to back off the accelerator somewhere on the track.

I believe there is a maximum safe speed for a driver; there is a speed where a driver will have no time to react to something happening at the other end of a straight.
 
would the drivers back off the accelerator knowing if they didnt they may lift off the ground
 
DanicaFreak said:
is there ANY way we could take the plates off and keep the cars on the ground?
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They are way past that point already when the cars are racing, they passed that point in the 60's. The problem is when the cars get out of shape.

DanicaFreak said:
would the drivers back off the accelerator knowing if they didnt they may lift off the ground
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That isn't the main problem. It is keeping them out of the crowd when, not if, they take off.
 
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