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eli-06

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hi, what is happened in season 1995-1996? because i'm realising a school project in order to understand what influence the finishing position of drivers.
I have some problems because indexes change from 1994-1995 , but I don't understand the causes.
I guess that in those years there were rule changes or increasing of investiment for improving the car performance but i don't find any informations. So, I ask you that know NASCAR better than me if you could give any informations to explain these changes.

Thanks
 
Ok data show that there is a clear difference in competitiveness between the races until 1994 and after 1994. Why? Is there an important rule change or something else like mechanical innovation?
 
Well bill Elliott decided it be a great time to start being his own team and didn't win for 7 years
 
Jeff Gordon rose to power, that's what happened. From 1995 to 2001, he won his four championships & the majority of his race wins. This may be one reason why competitiveness dropped off after 1994...
 
eli-06 said:
Ok data show that there is a clear difference in competitiveness between the races until 1994 and after 1994. Why? Is there an important rule change or something else like mechanical innovation?
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Welcome to the forum eli-06 , I think that I know what you mean.In the old days there were only a couple of cars that used to finish on the lead lap . Now most of them do . I think that was a gradual change and not a sudden change . And I think there were several causes , not just one cause . Am I on the right track at all?
 
ted@economy said:
Welcome to the forum eli-06 , I think that I know what you mean.In the old days there were only a couple of cars that used to finish on the lead lap . Now most of them do . I think that was a gradual change and not a sudden change . And I think there were several causes , not just one cause . Am I on the right track at all?
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hi, yes you could be on the right track, i have the same opinion but i need to know the real causes of this change.
Jeff Gordon countless victories could have change the indexes of competitiveness, couldn't they? what's your opinion?
 
eli-06 said:
hi, yes you could be on the right track, i have the same opinion but i need to know the real causes of this change.
Jeff Gordon countless victories could have change the indexes of competitiveness, couldn't they? what's your opinion?
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No , he wasn't the cause , but he is an example of the new breed of young drivers that started to appear on the scene at that time.These new young faces brought big name sponsors and new owners to the sport. Suddenly the Hendrick operation was joined by Gibbs, and others and there were a lot more heavily financed teams on the track.So I guess the answer to your question , is ,the thing that changed the racing was more money coming into more teams.
 
Earnhardt turned 40 in 91 or 92 usually a decline occours afterwards, note Allison was the oldest champ 45 y/o.

We lost Davey Allison and Allan Kulwiki in 93, and we lost a lot of talent between those two.
Davey Allison's replacement Earnie Irvan was fast, he certainly looked strong enough to win the title in 94, but he suffered devastating injuries in Michigan that year during the month of August,, and he was never the same.
Earnie doesn't get the credit he deserved but anyone who remembers late 93 & 94, well should realize he was a force.
Yates did win the championship with Dale Jarrett, but I personally believe he was slower than the two previous Yates drivers.

Jr Johnson racing never fully recovered after losing the title in 92, and in just a few years he was completely out of racing. The loss of a team with 6 titles.
In the early 90s some good solid drivers like Geoff Bodine, and Morgan Shepherd were also getting to old

But there is no way to avoid the obvious point Gordon one of the all time greats was in his prime years, very fast and willingly to do what was needed to win. Evernham was brilliant too and innovative. They took a T Rex car to Charlotte for the winston all star event. They were disgustingly faster than anybody else, no stop watch but they had to be half a second faster than anyone else. You could watch him run two laps destroying the competition in the corners and know it was over.
 
Just to add a few, the Monte Carlo returned ('95), we said goodbye to North Wilkesboro on the Cup schedule ('96), Junior Johnson replaced Bill Elliott and Jimmy Spencer with Brett Bodine and Loy Allen and was out of the sport by the end of the year ('95), the 43 car returned to Victory Lane after a 12 year drought, with Bobby Hamilton driving ('96).
 
I was trying to help eli come up with a theory which might explain what happened back then to tighten up the racing among the top 30 or so cars. I'm not sure that it happened exactly then , but a tightening up of the field did happen around then (in my mind) with many more cars being in contention for the win each week. The field has ,I think, continued to tighten up .
 
Probably has a lot of elements that brought some parity, mainly more money for lesser teams that used to be backyard operations. Around 1990, the engines really weren't stock anymore. In the 90's more multi-team organizations arose with factory support, fewer models in the field, more talent arrived, gear rules, much fewer breakdowns, etc. If I had to pick 2 things they would be there's less crappy teams in the field today, and there are far fewer breakdowns. Richard Petty averaged 8 mechanical DNF's for every year he raced. Sometimes 20 cars would be off the track because of breakdowns.
 
Greg's post talking about Irvan almost getting killed brought to mind That was probably the year Nascar allowed two different tire manfactuers. As far as I remember in 95 they went back to Goodyear only.
The tire war turned out bad for the sport from what I remember about it. They were both trying to outdue each other by building softer tires for better grip and by Michigan Ernie Irvan blew a right front during practice and hit the wall so hard that he was only given a 10 percent chance of survival.
 
FenderBumper said:
Probably has a lot of elements that brought some parity, mainly more money for lesser teams that used to be backyard operations. Around 1990, the engines really weren't stock anymore. In the 90's more multi-team organizations arose with factory support, fewer models in the field, more talent arrived, gear rules, much fewer breakdowns, etc. If I had to pick 2 things they would be there's less crappy teams in the field today, and there are far fewer breakdowns.
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This is pretty accurate, IMO.

Plus the fact that Ray Everenham was the best cheater in the garage at the time!
Jeff Gordon won 4 Championships with Ray and NASCAR was never the same after that!
 
racer8 said:
Greg's post talking about Irvan almost getting killed brought to mind That was probably the year Nascar allowed two different tire manfactuers. As far as I remember in 95 they went back to Goodyear only.
The tire war turned out bad for the sport from what I remember about it. They were both trying to outdue each other by building softer tires for better grip and by Michigan Ernie Irvan blew a right front during practice and hit the wall so hard that he was only given a 10 percent chance of survival.
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Absolutely true! The "tire war" was bad for NASCAR.
 
There is no room for more than one tire manufacturer in NASCAR Nextel Cup Racing. We've been there, done that…and didn't like it. During the most recent "tire wars" waged between Goodyear and Hoosier Tires during both the 1988-89 and 1994 seasons, even the most competitive of crew chiefs were left begging for intervention from NASCAR to end the insanity. Those were ugly times that resulted in races in which attrition spiked and serious injuries increased drastically due to both sides trying to go "too far" in order to win the war. As has been the case for over a decade, NASCAR needs to continue to work with,
regulate, and monitor a single manufacturer's supply of tires to race teams.

Found this on a website called Frontstretch from 2006
http://www.frontstretch.com/wtc/4567/
If I did that right it should be a link.
 
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