Significant All-Star Race changes?

ChexOrWrex said:
Whatever happened to the pitcrew challenge?
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It went away a few years ago, I think it had to with Sprint no longer wanting to sponsor it, but I could be wrong.

I really didnt care for the format they were using, and trying to make a big event out of it by holding in it the arena , they should of kept on pit road like how it was done when it was the 76 pit challenge
 
Dale Earnhardt Jr. says new format for Sprint All-Star Race was Brad Keselowski’s idea



In a Twitter chat Friday morning with fans, Dale Earnhardt Jr. said that the yet-to-be released format for the Sprint All-Star Race came from Brad Keselowski.

The non-points race is May 21 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Keselowski responded to Earnhardt on Twitter that the format suggested is something he’d like to see as a fan.
Neither driver revealed the format changes.

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http://nascar.nbcsports.com/2016/05...rint-all-star-race-was-brad-keselowskis-idea/
 
jws926 said:
It went away a few years ago, I think it had to with Sprint no longer wanting to sponsor it, but I could be wrong.

I really didnt care for the format they were using, and trying to make a big event out of it by holding in it the arena , they should of kept on pit road like how it was done when it was the 76 pit challenge
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I sat through many a delightful post-Busch-race 76 Pit Crew Challenge at Rockingham over the years, hearing the raw time announced and anxiously waiting for the words, "No penalties!"
 
I would love to see the pit crew challenge back. Those guys work their butts off and need to be rewarded. Too bad it was at a race nobody cared about. If only there was a way to get them their spotlight during the regular season. IDK, maybe a bonus point for the fastest 4 tire stop or something?
 
Acs said:
I would love to see the pit crew challenge back. Those guys work their butts off and need to be rewarded. Too bad it was at a race nobody cared about. If only there was a way to get them their spotlight during the regular season. IDK, maybe a bonus point for the fastest 4 tire stop or something?
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Is that with the 3 or 5 lug nut stop? ;)
 
Acs said:
I would love to see the pit crew challenge back. Those guys work their butts off and need to be rewarded. Too bad it was at a race nobody cared about. If only there was a way to get them their spotlight during the regular season. IDK, maybe a bonus point for the fastest 4 tire stop or something?
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At the top level, they're rewarded handsomely.

A point? ah ... no. You race for points ... you add fuel and change tires to race.
 
If I had to guess I'd go with some kind of elimination format.
 
Acs said:
I would love to see the pit crew challenge back. Those guys work their butts off and need to be rewarded. Too bad it was at a race nobody cared about. If only there was a way to get them their spotlight during the regular season. IDK, maybe a bonus point for the fastest 4 tire stop or something?
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Me too. I enjoyed it and pulled for my driver's team.
 
Acs said:
If I had to guess I'd go with some kind of elimination format.
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I like the elimination idea. I'll go with ever x number of laps the last place driver is black flagged until it gets down to the final two. A caution is thrown and the final two do a GWC starting side by side. Winner take all.
 
While I am not as overly excited as those announcing these changes, that last part does sound interesting.

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Question becomes how important are new tires for a 13 lap run? A lot of that, of course, could be based on how many cars are still on the lead lap after the 2nd segment.
 
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If you're in the 9th spot, you'll have to pit regardless of draw. Realistically, how many spots can that driver expect to pick up on pit road being the 9th in line to enter pit road? They're almost assuredly going to be starting near the rear for the 3rd segment, even if 2 drivers behind could be forced to pit. Have to think that driver would be better off falling back a few spots.
 
I just figured since it's the last year for Sprint, that they'd keep the same format this year and then introduce a new format next year with the new sponsor. And did I read that correctly? That there could be more than 1 driver voted in to fill in spots if they don't have a minimum 20 car field?
 
Greg said:
Andy one of my favorite Nascar screwing Mark Martin moments happened at the 1993 Winston All Star race.

During the final 10 lap segment Mark seemingly had the race won. Then there was a late race caution and a restart with the evil one hisself, Dale Earnhardt jumping the restart.
But Nascar people are pros and needed it to at least look fair. So they lined them up again for the final two laps.
And Dale and Nascar screwed Martin more gently the 2nd time.

Dale ran him door to door down the backstretch into turn three. That's when it just became to much for Martin. He obviously was remembering how they screwed him out the 1990 championship, and he probably sensed that they wouldn't let him ever win the 500 either.
It must have broke his concentration as Dale drove in deeper.

I was sitting in the grandstands and it was a sweet beautiful thing to watch. An elderly lady was sitting next to me, and she was hating everything about it. She started the night rooting for Bill Elliott, and adopted Martin late in the race, to satisfy her need for Dale not to win.

I could tell that she was really hurt. She looked at me yee-hawing it up, with my Earnhatdt colors, and just calmly said in disbelief that it wasn't right. I just smiled and wished her the best, I certainly wasn't going to disrespect her.

But deep down inside, I was thrilled with her pain. Mark Martin, Bill Elliott people, essentially all Ford racing fans all pissed off and used up by Earnhardt.

Again.

I always loved the way Dale pissed off the Ford people he used. Damn it was great.
Thanks for a reminder of the satisfaction of remembering her and everyone else's scars.
If you have other Martin scars for me to reminiscence over, please share, cause I don't feel your pain.

Yee Haw, Woot or something.... [evil laughter]

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Of course you were thrilled with her pain. Earnhardt was a winner and that's why you latched your ass to him...because it made YOU a winner. Like the majority of losers that followed him and the way he and RCR won races and titles. If he couldn't pass them, he smoked 'em out of the way. Or when the Ford teams got too fast at RP tracks, RC and Earnhardt led the charge of whining about their advantage and got NASCAR to slow them down. Even got NASCAR to let them race a car based on a FWD car with a 6 cylinder engine because the old Monte Carlo couldn't match the T-Bird. THEN, when the Lumina got obsolete they got to run a car based on the new production Monte Carlo with a rear end that didn't fit the production car template. 9 of the 12 to be exact!

Sure, he was great when he had the best team and car. And when he didn't he won some by moving people in front of him. But what was funny.....downright hilarious...was when it happened to HIM! Jeremy Mayfield gave him a dose and he turned into Kyle Busch childishly flipping the bird and crying about it on tv. What goes around comes around apparently didn't apply to Mr. Earnhardt.

But the best, absolute BEST was when that Gordon kid came along and it ENDED for Earnhardt. Wasn't even the man in the Chevy brand anymore. And the funny thing is, it didn't seem to bother him as much as it did his fans. Those were the days....watching all those with a 3 shaved in their back hair and their husbands flipping off the 24 as he beat, time and again, the much vaunted Dale Earnhardt. Even earned 4 titles doing it against the likes of 25+ full time teams as opposed to Earnhardt's 7 titles against what, 10-13 full time teams?
 
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