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Post by jmardjfan on Feb 27, 2019 11:13:51 GMT -5
Didn't get to watch all of the Atlanta race but from what little I saw the new air package wasn't too bad. Looked like they got pretty racy at times. Maybe they are on to something or maybe I'm an eternal optimist.....Thoughts?
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Post by Fire21 on Feb 27, 2019 23:13:27 GMT -5
Those of us in chat commented several times how boring the race was. I didn't watch it on TV, but instead saw it on nascar.com on their nascar cam. After watching last year's races on nascar cam, I have few expectations to see much action...their camera person is a total jerk.
Anyway, I felt the racing was no better than the past several years. Maybe nascar has the cars too equal. They just run around in circles and someone eventually wins. We'll see what happens at Las Vegas with more new changes...
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Post by diane44fan on Mar 4, 2019 22:23:21 GMT -5
After Atlanta and Vegas, I'm not impressed at all with this new package. Same boring race in Vegas as always. They really need to loosen the grip and let these teams compete. What NASCAR is doing is no different than what society is doing make everyone equal so no ones feelings gets hurt, or in the case of racing, so no one has an advantage at all.
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Post by Fire21 on Mar 5, 2019 11:02:12 GMT -5
What I saw at Vegas was some decent racing for a short time after each restart. There was good side-by-side running for 6, 8, 10 laps, then the faster cars would begin to string out and things got boring. What made it even more so was the absence of REAL cautions, not the contrived stage cautions, such that the faster cars ran away from the rest of the field, lapping many of the cars over and over.
But isn't that what racing is...the faster cars go faster and leave the slower ones behind? Isn't that the point of racing...the fastest car/driver/team wins? We all used to enjoy watching the usual top drivers running at the top every week, and we'd love/hate them like crazy.
Yet that's what's happening nowadays...the top drivers are running at the top every week. How come we're dissatisfied with the product? Is it just that what used to be a fun sport to watch is now so over-regulated that it's lost its appeal?
I think it started when na$car realized some teams had advantages, and they decided to make all the cars more equal, by team and manufacturer. That caused the rule book to get thicker and teams spent more time and effort in overcoming the rules...cheating. Inspections became more important, pushing the envelope became more critical, and inspections led to fines and other punishments.
At the risk of repeating myself, stock car racing is more fun if the cars are stock. There's nothing on the tracks nowadays that anyone can relate to; nothing out there even resembles what we drive on the streets. We can watch Indycar, na$car, Formula 1 or World of Outlaws, and get the same "thrill of speed" and the same result. The faster cars outrun the slower ones and a fast car eventually wins.
Na$car has lived through its heyday, and I don't believe it will ever be what it was. The times, they are a'changin.
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