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This damage rule is terrible. Not good for the fans to see Trucks that were close to getting back going (Bell & Moffitt) that are now out.
Taught during the first day at Crew Chief University..... exploit the system and use that time.
Are you watching the Truck race? It's demonstrating the stages are far stupider than the 5-minute rule could ever hope to be.Most stupid rule ever initiated...... I'd like to know the daddy of this one.
It really makes you wonder the I.Q. of the folks in charge.....Are you watching the Truck race? It's demonstrating the stages are far stupider than the 5-minute rule could ever hope to be.
I liked the damage rule. Bell and John Hunters teams had no problem with the 5minuteso multiple times so I'd think Cup teams would have no problem. I do agree that the race should be red flagged at the end of the stages. Can't really run caution laps and not count them towards the race distance though so red flag would be my suggestion.
To be fair, judging the stage concept by a truck race - or ANY restrictor plate race - is not a good idea, IMO. Truck races are too short and too chopped up by incidents to be a fair test of the concept. And so are most plate races in the other divisions. This truck race was a clusterf*** but I intend to take a wait-and-see attitude.Are you watching the Truck race? It's demonstrating the stages are far stupider than the 5-minute rule could ever hope to be.
But there was a couple cars according to many people on Twitter that could have ran. Why is that good for the fans?
likes segments but points should only be given at end
Why? In every other sport points are accumulated throughout the entire event. This will reward you on how you run and not only how you finish.
Points for the players are tabulated in stick and ball and a running total is kept but there are no championship implications involved. In other words the player with the most rushing yards for the year may play on a team that doesn't make the playoffs.
The points a team accumulates during a game just go in determining the winner of the game and then are forgotten unless they are needed to be used in tie breaker situations.
There is no stick in soccer, basketball etc and no ball in Hockey. So I think it should be changed to the politically correct "stick and/or ball sports".I liked it when NASCAR was unique. Many don't want the sport to become like every other sport, especially not like stick and ball sports.
Oh my God, WHO CARES about the five-minute clock??? (A column)
Twitter got alllllll pissy Friday night during the Truck Series race at Daytona, acting mad over NASCAR’s new rule that requires crash repairs to be completed in five minutes.
People were legitimately angry over this. For real!
My God, people! If you want to see damaged cars on a track that badly, go check out your local demolition derby.
I care about who battles for the win, not whether the freaking 26th-place driver who wrecked before halfway can ride around long enough to finish 25th. Catch the excitement!
If a vehicle is so damaged it can’t be repaired in five minutes, just go home. Why does it need to be on the track? Just because that’s how it’s always been?
I’m not anti-repairs. Look at Christopher Bell’s example: Contact sent him into a spin at the end of Stage 1, he literally went airborne, landed, fixed the damage and was leading the race by the halfway point. Neat!
But it was neat because his vehicle could continue and didn’t have a bunch of debris-caution-causing crap hanging off it. In the examples people cited on Twitter (“But Tommy Underdog came back from two laps down after hitting the wall at Talladega in ’02!”), did the repairs really take longer than five minutes? Or do you just remember a damaged car having a comeback?
Because in most cases, a repair that takes longer than five minutes is often going to take a car out of contention for a good finish anyway. So it doesn’t matter, right?
Now, some of you are probably thinking: But Jeff, what if a team misses the playoff because of two or three points it could have picked up during a race when repairs took too long?
My answer is: TOO BAD!! Holy crap, are we really worried about this? Maybe try harder at other races next time!
I just can’t get fired up about telling a team to pack up for a night because stuff is so broken that it can’t be fixed quickly.
Look, I hate it just as much as everyone else when NASCAR takes away some long-held traditions — but is this really one to get upset about?
It’s like someone pulling the weeds out of your lawn to make it look better, and you get mad because you preferred it to look how nature intended.
They’re freaking WEEDS! Just look at how nice your lawn looks now and focus on that, OK?
http://jeffgluck.com/five-minute-clock-complaints-please-stop-cant-take-it/
Gluck seems to be part of the problem.Jeff Gluck & Dale Jr have dipped into the brain france koolaid too many times
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The worst situation in any corporate management is to have a bunch of Yes men and women.Some of our best ideas where I work came from people disagreeing with the company's decisions.Gluck seems to be part of the problem.
Still doesn't answer why can't we have points accumulate during the race I see absolutely nothing wrong with that and I think it's great because it rewards performance.
Doesn't matter cream will always rise to the top.
The worst situation in any corporate management is to have a bunch of Yes men and women.Some of our best ideas where I work came from people disagreeing with the company's decisions.
I guess I'm confused here..... Does this mean that Gluck is simply lying about his position on the topic? Gluck is not an employee of anyone.The worst situation in any corporate management is to have a bunch of Yes men and women.Some of our best ideas where I work came from people disagreeing with the company's decisions.
It just means that he, like us, has an opinion.I guess I'm confused here..... Does this mean that Gluck is simply lying about his position on the topic? Gluck is not an employee of anyone.