I read today that NASCAR might be willing to lower the rear spoiler for next year, giving the driver even more control on the car. Yeah, they have tried to make all the cars equal, but in doing so, they have made the sport even more expensive because the higher dollar teams are willing to spend even more money to get an edge. However, NASCAR is with them on this and when one team or another find an edge, before long, the racing gods temper with that edge, i.e. gearing for this year.
I hate it that the sanctioning body tries to make things equal, but in this day and age of racing, with all the money and support that is so important to each and every team, there has to be something that keeps one team from running away with the title. What really started all of this goes way back to the team of Melling's #9 car driven by a young red head by the name of Bill Elliott. Those guys, along with the engine team of another Elliott, completely snookered the rest of the teams in 1985. Though Bill didn't win the title that year, simply because he never could conquer the short tracks, he was unstopable on the superspeedways. All of his competitors knew that he had something they didn't have and thought it was unfair. Of course, those years of the King Petty wining all those races never entered their minds. Elliott was racing in the modern era and wasn't supposed to be running circles around all the other drivers. Thus, rules changes were in order and it's just never stopped. While the year 1985 still had plenty of sponsors, the money wasn't as important as it is now. The sport was still in the pre-engineering phase.
Oh how the sport has grown.
