NEW NASCAR Points System?

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I've watched NASCAR for a very long time. Been to my favorite track (Bristol, TN) several times. Watched the first televised race on CBS and saw the Allison / Yarborough brawl while sitting on a green vinyl couch next to my dad. Met alot of NASCAR drivers over the years. I cried when Dale Sr. passed. I've seen alot of BS changes to this organization. But this takes the cake. As I understand it, after race 26, if my driver is 11th in points and has not won a race in the upcoming season.....he can be bumped by a driver in as low as 20th in points who has won a race? They are calling it the "Wild Card?" I want to bludgeon Brian France and his sister with a baseball bat for screwing up everything his grandfather has worked hard to establish.

On a side note, my favorite driver is not important, but I will cheer for anyone that puts Johnson into the wall!
 
NukeSec1 said:
I've watched NASCAR for a very long time. Been to my favorite track (Bristol, TN) several times. Watched the first televised race on CBS and saw the Allison / Yarborough brawl while sitting on a green vinyl couch next to my dad. Met alot of NASCAR drivers over the years. I cried when Dale Sr. passed. I've seen alot of BS changes to this organization. But this takes the cake. As I understand it, after race 26, if my driver is 11th in points and has not won a race in the upcoming season.....he can be bumped by a driver in as low as 20th in points who has won a race? They are calling it the "Wild Card?" I want to bludgeon Brian France and his sister with a baseball bat for screwing up everything his grandfather has worked hard to establish.

On a side note, my favorite driver is not important, but I will cheer for anyone that puts Johnson into the wall!
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Standing ovation if they take out the Busch brothers doing it.
 
The only reason they expanded the chase drivers to 12 was Tony Stewart didn't make the chase after having one the championship the previous year. I do like the idea of the wild card for drivers that have won races though.

The rest of the points changes are just bogus. What difference is there between the winner getting 280 points vs 44 if there isn't more of an incentive for winning a race?
 
I think that they should make it so that that the first 43 cars that qualify the fastest make the race. Never mind all this crap like top 35 in points make the show and past champions get in also . Tired of seeing cars that went faster go home. JMO. Larry
 
I agree, who the H double hockey sticks came up with such a crazy idea :banghead:

I wish Mark Martin would put a Mopar Team together and put Joey Lagono in it and watch him grow even more... I wounder how Brade K. will do this year and Little Alligator.
Watch out NSCAR, Here comes our Challenger this year full time :toothy2:
 
they messed everything up when they got rid of the original format back around 2002 i think it was. seems like when winston stepped out and dale died (wasnt a fan of him at the time) nascar just started experimenting . it has all been for the worse in my opinion. i have been a die hard fan for many years , but dont really care much about watching it anymore. frees up alot of time to take in a car show or play with the valiant.
 
I will not pay to watch a toyota race ever never. they rammed them down our faces.they need a race series of their own. put toyotas hondas nissons kia ect .call it ricecar or greencar. only problem is nobody would go. thats a tuffy.
 
I'm still that pissed off over restrictor plates. I feel your pain. I stopped watchin altogether when Earnhardt got killed.
 
I stopped watching a couple years after Dale died. I wasn't even a fan of his either but the sport just went downhill after that. I used to tune in to watch real men race, not a bunch of kids that are hand picked by the sponsors to endorse their products. Nascar got too big for its own britches and is starting to pay for it now. Getting rid of exciting tracks for boring ones that have more seats, stupid points systems and cars that cost millions of dollars to build have ruined the sport. They turned everything on its head to make a lot of money for a few years but now they have damaged the long term growth of the sport.
 
NASCAR is just a commercialized advertising oppurtunity for big corporations. I don't even think it's a sport anymore. I like the old days when drivers didn't complain about every little touch or bump they encounter during a race. Bumping and trading paint was a part of racing. Today's drivers are a bunch of wussie yuppies. Unfortunately, NHRA looks at NASCAR as a guide to model themselves after. You can see how it has effected NHRA as well. I don't watch either much anymore. I would rather watch Sportsman racing instead.
 
ESP47 said:
I stopped watching a couple years after Dale died. I wasn't even a fan of his either but the sport just went downhill after that. I used to tune in to watch real men race, not a bunch of kids that are hand picked by the sponsors to endorse their products. Nascar got too big for its own britches and is starting to pay for it now. Getting rid of exciting tracks for boring ones that have more seats, stupid points systems and cars that cost millions of dollars to build have ruined the sport. They turned everything on its head to make a lot of money for a few years but now they have damaged the long term growth of the sport.
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I think that's a dead nuts on synopsis. Yeah, whether you were a fan or not, you had to respect the way he didn't whine. All I ever heard him say was "well that's racin". He was right. That's what the sport WAS all about. A little rubbin and bouncin around is entertainment. Also another interestin point is this. The cars now have gotten so sophistocated that the challenge of driving one is almost gone. I would love to see ....oh I don't know......Jeff Gordon for instance behind the wheel of.....yeah......a 1963 Galaxie with biased ply tires goin 160 plus MPH. These new cars nearbout drive themselves.
 
Hendrick is a convict and belongs in prision. They make him out to be a martyr. I'm done, not even defending my fantasy league championship. Read Arrogance and Accords it shows what a crook he is.
 
Loved it when it was racin'...now its a show...their words,not mine...sometimes I have to agree with them....but I'll take it anyday over watchin' the overpaid thugs that dominate the professional stick and ball sports...my 2cents....1)get rid of the speed limit under green flag pitstops...it's a RACE track...not a school zone 2)no free lunch...the fastest 40 line up...have a 10 lap quailifier(duck race) for the last 3 spots 3)draw for rainout position 4)put a concete barrier one pit space down from the #1 pit so whoever has that pit does not have an advantage over the rest of thefield...thats all
 
Sorry Earnhardt was a cry baby too.

See when Mayfield rattled his cage at Pocono...
Or when the Fords got the roofs lowered at Daytona.

As long as he was on the poking end of the stick he never cried, when he got poked he whined like a byatch.

That whole organization has been a fraud for years. They know whom they want to win the championship every year. Sometimes it doesn't go right... see Kenseth... The "chase" is a joke.
 
I used to watch nascar, started when Dodge came back in 2001. Been going downhill since then, now I think nascar just plain sucks.
 
NukeSec1 said:
I've watched NASCAR for a very long time. Been to my favorite track (Bristol, TN) several times. Watched the first televised race on CBS and saw the Allison / Yarborough brawl while sitting on a green vinyl couch next to my dad. Met alot of NASCAR drivers over the years. I cried when Dale Sr. passed. I've seen alot of BS changes to this organization. But this takes the cake. As I understand it, after race 26, if my driver is 11th in points and has not won a race in the upcoming season.....he can be bumped by a driver in as low as 20th in points who has won a race? They are calling it the "Wild Card?" I want to bludgeon Brian France and his sister with a baseball bat for screwing up everything his grandfather has worked hard to establish.

On a side note, my favorite driver is not important, but I will cheer for anyone that puts Johnson into the wall!
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It's all about winning.
 
Are you listening Mr. France? Several things tork me off about the sport, one of the biggest was when they started taking races away from the "boring" tracks and gave them to tracks owned by Frances sister!
 
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