If I ran Nascar.......
The philosophy [bear with me I will be specify later on] or mission statement would be:
Good racing always, always will be the only objective. There can be no compromises.
Team owners, Promoters, Shareholders, Corporate backers, TV packages etc they all must understand their role as participants, but not as the actual product. Simply stated having the best racing possible rules the day, and is the greater, and only concern.
Personal profits is important, but we have enough faith in good racing to trust it alone. If that's unacceptable then you should sell your racing investments, stuff, interest, and run along, because we are not going to alter the product for you. No exceptions.
1. Stop the phantom cautions, and the preplanned competition cautions on lap 40 or 50 due to conditions.
-Any driver that is ruled to be intentionally creating a caution will be immediately disqualified. This also includes willingly waiting or idling after an incident to force a yellow.
-Pit road is always open, and pit road isn't closed to let everyone catch up with the pace car first.
Use local cautions on road courses, and full cautions as last option.
2. No more provisional, you must earn your right to race. I would utilize a last chance heat race.
3. Darlington, Wilksboro, Rockingham, and old Nashville Fairgrounds would be restored.
4. Cookie cutter and copied sister tracks would reconfigured to a unique design of it's own, or lose one race date. Exceptions for a mother track like Charlotte.
5. The schedule would be reduced to 30-32 races. Keeping the old traditional tracks and the new would be achievable by rotation (every 3 or 4 years a track only gets 1 date, rather than the usual 2).
6. Tires would be bias ply, and intentionally flawed. Designed to give up grip, (not puncture of blow out), before a tank of fuel is used. Tire management issues would demand the best from drivers, and provide genuine racing dramas.
7. I like the COTs safety and durability. But I would return it back to at least using as much factory stock sheet metal as possible. Hoods, trunk lids etc....
8. No more scheduling against the local Saturday night short tracks.
9. Put the Nationwide series back to the 80's schedule. As a bridge from local regional racing, to the big leagues it should be primarily a short track series.
10. Ban multicar teams.
11. Keep the 43-1 point structure. But the only bonus points would be for winning. That would be another 43, or double bonus points. The champion should be the biggest excitement, and the biggest winner, with the points serving primarily to break the ties.
No more chase. If this means a driver clinches in October with too many wins to be caught, then let's face the reality. That's honorable even if anti climatic. Allowing an inferior to steal it away via a reset would be a farce.
12. I would pursue rules that made it possible to be competitive on a $5 million budget. The goal would be to have 60-80 cars entering every week.
And Orioles are last in the East....Sounds like fun time
