J Mayfield :
I’m going to say what a lot of people are thinking but are too scared to voice: Last night was a bad look for the sport.
These teams spend tens of millions of dollars on engineering, wind tunnel time, and elite technology. Then we take the "top tier" of racing and put them in a stadium to crawl around at 70mph in the sleet and rain?
It didn’t look like the best drivers in the world. It looked like guys who had no clue how to drive, sliding around in slow motion. When I was out there, the goal was to showcase speed and horsepower. Now, we’re starting the season with million-dollar bumper cars in a parking lot. It makes the "elite" level of our sport look amateur.
Is this really how we want to kick off a season? By throwing away all that engineering just for a "spectacle"?
I’m curious—do you want to see the best of the best actually racing, or do you just want to see million-dollar cars bumping into each other at highway speeds? Let me have it in the comments.