OEM HIERARCHY

[Revman]

I am going to do my best to keep my bias out of this conversation, and I am hoping that others do the same--I am looking at you @StandOnIt. I am thinking about the pecking order of the OEMs. Let's keep this from getting brand specific to avoid biased rants......To the post.....The Next Gen in theory levels the playing field. Now, the playing field is getting tipped by OEMs who provide more/better data to their preferred teams while the smaller teams who again in theory ought to be able to compete due to the spec-ness of the Next Gen fall behind once again. Additionally, sim time is allocated to the preferred teams (I think). What the hell is the point of all of this if the OEMs keep kissing the asses of their favored children? Won't we eventually end right back to where we started? This seems incredibly stupid. What am I missing?

 

[Ford 222]

I'm sure we will but I believe it has tightened things up between the have's and have nots. Your better funded teams are going to always be able to buy more speed. Even with a tighter box. The favored children are going to be the one's that have shown themselves to be loyal to the manufacturer. Ford, to me, seems to be in a little bit of a quandry as the 2 teams they support the most (and that's just an assumption) are loyal to nobody. I absolutely hate to say it but Penske and Haas will go wherever they feel their best chance is. If Ford wanted to reward loyalty, Roush and Woods would be their favorite children.

 

[StandOnIt]

Chevy has twice as many wins as the next competitor. I would be doing what they are doing.

 

[Efisher131]

Revman and WhiningSmoke need to have a debate

 

[Formerjackman]

I am going to do my best to keep my bias out of this conversation, and I am hoping that others do the same--I am looking at you @StandOnIt. I am thinking about the pecking order of the OEMs. Let's keep this from getting brand specific to avoid biased rants......To the post.....The Next Gen in theory levels the playing field. Now, the playing field is getting tipped by OEMs who provide more/better data to their preferred teams while the smaller teams who again in theory ought to be able to compete due to the spec-ness of the Next Gen fall behind once again. Additionally, sim time is allocated to the preferred teams (I think). What the hell is the point of all of this if the OEMs keep kissing the asses of their favored children? Won't we eventually end right back to where we started? This seems incredibly stupid. What am I missing?

You're not missing anything. I've been saying it forever that no matter WHAT you do, the cream ALWAYS rises to the top, just as it does in the salary cap NFL. I have been of the opinion from the word go that 90% of this playing field nonsense is an exercise in futility and basically a waste of time. For the most part 30th place will just be two laps down instead of five laps down, and that hardly seems worth the effort. With each passing year, the temporary parity we had in 2022 will become a distant memory.