Speaking as a RACE fan

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Betsy

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I used to go to the races, both local, in state and national. I now am limited to my TV. Although I have been to Indy...before NASCAR ever thought of going there, I rarely watch any racing except NASCAR. I watch to see the cars vie for position. I watch to see the best car win.

I don't watch to see strategy! I don't watch to see which car has the best fuel mileage. I don't watch to see whose tire changers are the fastest.. I don't watch to see water bottles thrown out the windows to get a yellow flag.

My idea of a change in the format would be competition yellows at every tank of fuel with no fuel permitted between yellows. If the track is such that the tires wear before a tank then competition yellows at tire intervals. In each case the last yellow with GWC included in the fuel or tires.

This scenario would give fans like me a chance to see the best possible racing and would stop the water bottle flags.

It could even be a 2 minute stop with each car resuming his original place in line after the stop.

In short I want to see as much racing between the best cars that is possible.

Betsy :rolleyes:
 
Sure why not?

Stewart Fan said:
So you wanna take the pit crews out of the equation all together?
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No more pit lane crashes, no more crew ran over.. No more speeding penaltys on pit road, no more running out of fuel on the last lap. And with 2 minutes maybe time to change shocks or otherwise adjust for improved racing..
So at the end of the race every car would have had time to catch up and be better for the last 30 or so laps.

Also no more hiring away the fastest tire changers from another team.

Just the bestus, closest racing NASCAR has ever had.

Betsy ;)
 
I understand your points but I'd sure hate to see the pit crew taken out of the competition! I've always looked at it as a team sport, not just the driver. Some drivers are better, some crew chiefs, & some crews. That's all part of it IMO.
 
I understand your point of view, but I don't think this is a good idea.

What this would really be doing would be making the Cup series into something akin to sprint races. Which is something NASCAR is not. Also, I doubt this will promote the "best racing" you seem to think it will. For one thing, this would basically turn NASCAR into the NFL on wheels.

Short bursts of action, with scheduled breaks for you to make a sandwich or releave your bladder. Except that crew chiefs and pit crews would be rendered nearly useless because you're removing all strategy from the sport. NASCAR has always been about going as far and as fast as you can with your tires/fuel/setup.

The NFL can keep their ADD fans. Keep NASCAR the way it is.
 
I think most of us agree

dpkimmel2001 said:
I understand your points but I'd sure hate to see the pit crew taken out of the competition! I've always looked at it as a team sport, not just the driver. Some drivers are better, some crew chiefs, & some crews. That's all part of it IMO.
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We LOVE our local track Saturday night races! Well they race for ONE TANK of gas or less! The pit crew is never needed. Saturday night is all about going as fast as they can.

Five hundred mile races are all about staying alive for four hundred and fifty miles and then racing for the last fifty miles.

So to make NASCAR races similiar to our favorite Saturday night races, make them race for the entire five hundred miles. Coming out of each two minute pit stop would be a new race.

FAKE yellow flags would be unneeded to get the fans interested. The boring parts of our present racing would be thrown out the window with those water bottles.
Betsy;)
 
If NASCAR called them what they were, I wouldn't have an issue with it.

Quit calling them debris cautions when there's no debris on the track.
 
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