Rate the race: Bristol's Jeff Byrd 500

MRM

MRM

Team Owner
Joined
Jun 14, 2002
Messages
5,685
Points
793
Location
Powell, TN
I have a hard time giving it an overall score. I thought the first 100 laps were an 8. The middle 300 laps were a 4. The last 100 laps was a 6. Maybe the average comes out to a 6. Hard to tell from the TV coverage.
 
I'm sticking with not using a number. But I have to say that Bristol ain't what it used to be. Sure, change is constant, but this change isn't good. What used to be filled with lots of high tempers and dramatic passes, tire marks on the winners car, and just flat put great racing, Bristol hasn't had any of that since they changed it.
 
VaDirt said:
I'm sticking with not using a number. But I have to say that Bristol ain't what it used to be. Sure, change is constant, but this change isn't good. What used to be filled with lots of high tempers and dramatic passes, tire marks on the winners car, and just flat put great racing, Bristol hasn't had any of that since they changed it.
Click to expand...

This progressive banking nonsense ruined Homestead and Bristol. Now they're gonna ruin Phoenix.
 
I would give it a 7.5. It was good overall, Edwards tried has hard as he could to get Kyle at the end. Now it's off to the Jimmie Johnson 500
 
I don't usually rate the races but will say that this is the first cup race which I recall falling asleep watching.

Keeping in mind it that I usually don't watch races from a horizontal position on the sofa..as I did this one.
 
I find it difficult to give a numerical score on any race, I either like it or not.

IMHO the 'new' Bristol can't hold a candle to the old.
 
Never thought I'd say this about Bristol but give it a four (4). Borrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing! Even my corgis were bored.

Always liked Martinsville better and now it looks like that is the only real short track racing left.
 
Whizzer said:
Always liked Martinsville better and now it looks like that is the only real short track racing left.
Click to expand...
yep, it use to be if there was one nascar race you'd want to see, if you saw no other race, it was bristol. i think that's changed to martinsville now.
 
I've been going there for a long, long time. I was a fan of the track before the change and just as much a fan of it since. It went from being a track that you could only bump a guy out of the way to gain a position to a track that can now be raced. If there are some that don't like the new configuration and that's the reason that they don't show up there, it's fine by me. I find it a lot easier to catch the next tram, buy the next beer, purchase the next food item, etc.... with only 130,000 of us there rather than the 160,000+ And, just maybe, my ticket prices will continue to fall as well. :D
 
Went to Bristol for the first and Last time Sunday. They have destroyed the race
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I've been going there for a long, long time. I was a fan of the track before the change and just as much a fan of it since. It went from being a track that you could only bump a guy out of the way to gain a position to a track that can now be raced. If there are some that don't like the new configuration and that's the reason that they don't show up there, it's fine by me. I find it a lot easier to catch the next tram, buy the next beer, purchase the next food item, etc.... with only 130,000 of us there rather than the 160,000+ And, just maybe, my ticket prices will continue to fall as well. :D
Click to expand...

I totally agree. It goes to show Bristol's popularity was for the crashes, not the racing.
 
SlowNeasy said:
i agree most with biffle. what would be more interesting is what long time bristol fans thought of the "new bristol"
Click to expand...
I think I qualify to reply to one. The new Bristol has become just another race. It's a typical example of trying to fix something which wasn't broken in the first place.
 
MRM said:
I totally agree. It goes to show Bristol's popularity was for the crashes, not the racing.
Click to expand...

For me, it was the hard racing preceding the wrecks that appealed to me. You know, the knucklehead trying to bully his way through the field. Drivers using their chrome horn in the winding laps. Someone trying to poke his nose in a place where none would fit just to gain an edge. Beatin' and bangin' down the backstrech. Hard racing. I didn't see a lot of that Sunday. I saw plenty of follow the leader type "racing".

The two big wrecks were caused by a slowing Jeff Burton and a loose Kasey Khane. Not by hard racing.

Rubbin' is racin'. But lately, at Bristol, that hasn't been the case.
 
Of course part of Bristol's lure is the crashes - it's short track racing!
 
#17D500winner said:
Of course part of Bristol's lure is the crashes - it's short track racing!
Click to expand...

Correction. WAS part of ther lure. Hell, there's hardly even any rubbing anymore, no matter how hard the guys in the booth want to make it seem that there is.
 
VaDirt said:
Correction. WAS part of ther lure. Hell, there's hardly even any rubbing anymore, no matter how hard the guys in the booth want to make it seem that there is.
Click to expand...



Exactly, bristol was just a beast that everyone was excited about. It had good racing, paint swapping and lots of angry drivers. Now it's just another race that doesn't stand out and people forget it as soon as it's over.
 
Another deal where a change was made to please the drivers and the fans overwhelmingly hate it.

At first, I thought the change would make it like IRP where you could race side-by-side but that it would frustrate the drivers at the same time. Hasn't happened, the racing at Bristol is more like Michigan, Texas and Fontana. Hell, Fontana puts on better shows than the new Bristol does half the time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom