Possible Chase format changes

Mopar is right, local tracks award points according to finish. Whoever has the most points at seasons end wins the championship. Same as Na$car did for years before Sprint came along and wanted to boost tv ratings when competing against the NFL.

Work and race hard all year, win a few races then watch your 200-300 points lead disappear overnight to 30-40 points has to be demoralizing.
 
Let me preface this with the fact that I DO NOT like Jimmie Johnson. Never have, never will.

But, for everyone who says that one JJ figured out the chase it was his to lose every year, and that it only awards someone for the last ten races.

However, 3 out of the 4 years that Johnson won the Cup, he also had the most wins.

Just sayin'
 
VaDirt said:
Let me preface this with the fact that I DO NOT like Jimmie Johnson. Never have, never will.

But, for everyone who says that one JJ figured out the chase it was his to lose every year, and that it only awards someone for the last ten races.

However, 3 out of the 4 years that Johnson won the Cup, he also had the most wins.

Just sayin'
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actually only 2007 and 2009 he did the other year he had the most wins was 2004 and Busch won
 
VaDirt said:
But notice I said "three out of the 4 years he won the championship...." That excludes 2004.
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but he only won the most races in 2 of the years he won the title 2007 and 2009
 
They should either go back to how it was or leave it alone. The main reason it has not worked like they wanted is because, as someone said earlier, the 48 team was unstoppable. This year should be closer I think.

The elimination and reset thing is retarded. One blown tire could doom a team from the get go. How much fun would that be to see your favorite driver have no chance in the first couple of races because of a failed part? That would turn off many, many fans.
 
Leave the Chase alone, please

Good article from Jim Utter on this subject.....

There’s lots of attention on this season’s Chase for the Sprint Cup with it set to start at New Hampshire.

What we haven’t heard a lot about lately is next season’s Chase and the “tweaks” NASCAR has said it was considering to alter the format.

That’s a good thing.

The worst thing NASCAR can do for the Chase right now is change it yet again (They could always eliminate it, but I don't hold out hope).

The more changes, the more “tweaks,” the more expansion and retraction of the Chase field that is incorporated with new rules to create more drama, the more the Chase becomes just that: artificial drama.

NASCAR Chairman Brian France has talked about trying to create “Game Seven” moments, like in a World Series. The point forgotten, however, is every World Series doesn’t go seven games. And the reason those series that do go seven games are remembered the most is because they don’t happen very often.

Although NASCAR said it may not make any changes, it is becoming increasingly clear the Chase is headed into some sort of “elimination” format, where the original field of drivers is expanded but two to three times in the final 10 races a certain number of drivers are eliminated from contention.

I hardly see the point of expanding the field only to kick those same people out a few races later. Since the Chase started in 2004, no driver seeded worse than third when it started has won it. That means for all the “drama” around the drivers who squeak into the Chase, little is heard from them after it starts.

And any “winner takes all” format where two or more drivers are left battling for the title in the season’s final race at Homestead, Fla., does little to recognize the winner for a great season of competition.

It will, however, certainly make that driver the champion of Homestead. Unfortunately, the Cup series only visits there once a season.

So what exactly, have you won?

Read more: http://thatsracinluckydog.blogspot.com/2010/09/leave-chase-alone-please.html#ixzz0z7HEelWm
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