Because the highlighted sentence above is wrong. NASCAR doesn’t care whos hands the racing is in. The only hands they care about are the ones with money in them, and those hands are calling the shots.
And it’s turned into a mess of trying to create closer racing while following the evolution of auto racing technology.
If they did it right, they’d have the same data they do now but with cars that rely more on mechanical grip than aerodynamic.
This is it.
And there's plenty of evidence to support it with a bit of critical thinking.
1. Look at the entire sports world. It's all geared moreso towards entertainment and money.
The NFL, the MLB all push offense.
The NBA literally created defensive rules that favor offensive perimeter players so we get more scoring.
Nascar creating an aero/money dependent package is just their version of ticky tak fouls and offensive oriented officiating.
I also find it curious that between the years of 2000-2013, we had TWO drivers, Carl Edwards in 08, and Gordon in 07, finish with at least 27 top 10s. Since 2014 (gen 6 car), it's happened every season. And in more recent seasons (aero package), multiple drivers.
We hear drivers complain about air bubbles, how easy it is to drive the car, etc.
And through their ridiculous fan "surveys", try to create biased data that says fans want Daytona at every track.
Unfortunately, they've convinced some naive fans, and plenty of new fans that speedway racing is wide open 180mph. Most of us, or at least I epitomize NASCAR racing as mile and a half to 2 mile speedway racing where the drivers race tirewear and little grip in the corners to make speed in ways that allows good handling to overcome raw speed some times.
To me, THATS the nascar I grew up on. short tracks and super speedways are treats. Nascar has always been about speedway racing with cars that don't want to turn when a driver mashes the gas pedal at apex, or want to turn too much, and NASCAR is doing everything they can to convince fans that this is what they want, when it isn't about the fans or drivers.
NASCAR will always be 850hp. Im rewatching old seasons, recently finished Atlanta 09 (won by Kahne) and watching them rip down the backstretch feels like an entire different series.
It's about commercialism and entertainment. There's no such thing as entirely authentic competition across any discipline on television, other than track and field, imo.
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