The new 2005 NASCAR rules...

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NASCAR has implemented several new rules this year, the max RPM/gear ratio rule, the qualifying rules (qualify with race trim) and several others. They SAY these rules are deigned to help the smaller teams financially, and make the field "more competitive".

Just wondering what everyone's take is on the new rules. Will it help the smaller teams? Granted, the smaller teams can't afford to pay millions to engineers to come in and tell them how to get 10 more horsepower out of a restrictor plate engines like DEI, Roush, Hendrick, and the other big ones. Will these rules help them or not?

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The impound rule after q'ing has to help, at least some. It was downright ridiculous how much was being changed from q'ing trim to race trim. I mean, some teams were changing everything they could in the engine compartment, brake systems, springs, shocks, special oils & tranny fluids. There has to be some savings, somewhere.
 
i also agree with that, but will the smaller teams be able to do anything in the race. even if the regulars qualify with their race trim and the smaller teams run a qualifying trim and make it in the race, they wont be able to race good at all compared to the regulars with their race trim
 
emon66 said:
i also agree with that, but will the smaller teams be able to do anything in the race. even if the regulars qualify with their race trim and the smaller teams run a qualifying trim and make it in the race, they wont be able to race good at all compared to the regulars with their race trim
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That's a hard question to answer. I guess time will tell if it helps or not. My guess is that will possibly help out in that it could give the smaller, less well funded teams, an opportunity to finish higher at the end of the race on the tracks where track positions is so important (but that's almost every track now days!! :) ). And better finishes usually mean they can come up with more and better sponsorship. Over the long run (a season or two) I can see where it could help.

BTW, I'm mostly referring to the qualifying in race trim...........or impounding the cars after qualifying.
 
With so many fans seemingly so worried about the cost of racing at the top levels of NASCAR, I've got to wonder why?

These teams are not racing on their own money; even the underfunded teams are receiving some sponsor funding, and after a lifetime spent playing this silly game, I think it is safe for me to point out the fact that the guys who spend the most money are the guys who are going to finish best. That will hold true in at least 99 and 99/100ths of the races run in any one season. Not only in the top levels of NASCAR, but at just about any level of the business, right on down to the local bullrings in somebody's back yard.

"Speed cost money, how fast do you want to go?", from a sign my dad had in his shop years ago, and he always told me, "The quickest way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a very big one."
He was right on both counts, too!
 
I like the qualifying/race trim rule from the standpoint of overworking the teams. I don't like the max gear rule.

One thing I learned when they went to the one engine rule, the big budget teams will still spend money as long as they have it. If NASCAR takes it away in one area, they'll concentrate the money used there into another area. The thing about the money is eventually even the big budget teams will price themselves out of getting their sponsorship dollars. If the price keeps going up, very few companies will pony up $20 million+. The higher you go, the harder it is to find companies that are willing and/or able to pay that kind of money for sponsorship.
 
MRM said:
The thing about the money is eventually even the big budget teams will price themselves out of getting their sponsorship dollars. If the price keeps going up, very few companies will pony up $20 million+. The higher you go, the harder it is to find companies that are willing and/or able to pay that kind of money for sponsorship.
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That would be when the teams have reached that magic sum of "what the market will bear". :) It will either level out there for a while or go down a bit and then start all over!! Ain't capitalism great? :D :beerbang:
 
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