Let's start the 'Chase' at Daytona.....43rd position 'finisher' at Daytona is out of the Chase. If one didn't qualify for Daytona, they are out of the Chase. Anyone starting their season after Daytona is not eligable for the Chase. Each race on the schedule the next lowest finsher is out and so on. Someone is on the verge of being eliminated from the Chase each race. When you come to the final race of the year (36 race season), you will have 7 drivers in contention....highest finsher takes the Championship!

mmi16 - 10 October 2009 06:54 PM

Let's start the 'Chase' at Daytona.....43rd position 'finisher' at Daytona is out of the Chase. If one didn't qualify for Daytona, they are out of the Chase. Anyone starting their season after Daytona is not eligable for the Chase. Each race on the schedule the next lowest finsher is out and so on. Someone is on the verge of being eliminated from the Chase each race. When you come to the final race of the year (36 race season), you will have 7 drivers in contention....highest finsher takes the Championship!

With a few beers, some cocktail napkins and golf score pencils, we could collaborate and really have something there.

The "chase" is a joke to most of the race fans I know. I don't think NASCAR gets it. The article the other day about Brad K being told to stay out of the way of the chase drivers did it in for me. If there was anything in motorsports that needed changed, it's the chase. Am I the only one seeing Nascar go downhill fast? The money, which is dwindling even faster will cut down fields in the next several years. Nascar must have their heads up their rears.

Why was it necessary to fix something that wasn't broken? I will tell you! The chase was suppose to compete with football. That was never going to happen. People like seeing linebackers bash people, they like 50 yard passes and everything else that goes with football. It has grown and very little has changed except for protecting the QB.

Racing has always been about a whole season, that's the only proper way to do it. Reward the best over many races, not 12.

How can you make all of these special rules that benefit mostly the teams with money?

The fans are catching on quickly. The race tonight was barely 2/3 full and this was a place almost always sold out. I'm sick of the politics in Nascar ruining a sport I once loved. There are people at the top that have no idea what they are doing. The drivers just cower to them, and praise everything they do and get a nice paycheck in return. It's about to start drying up, what will they do?

Speedtv will worship everything Nascar does until the fans tune out.

oops

Civilsavage - 18 October 2009 11:19 PM

wilmywood8455 - 22 September 2009 08:30 PM

hdhar5 - 20 September 2009 01:34 PM

NASCAR...if you are going to continue with "The Chase", why not consider this:

Each week the "Chasers" will be locked into the top 12 starting positions. During qualfying, they would be the last 12 cars to qualify in order of a draw. Fastest of the 12 would, obviously, win the pole. If, for some reason, they have to make a mechanical change such as an engine or even wreck during qualifying the worst they would start is 12th.

It is ridiculous that some of the "filler" teams are higher in the starting grid than the "chasers". Two different agendas. Blaney and Nemechek and others who run for as little as 10 laps should not be a factor in the chase.

Not a terrible idea, but starting position is not as important as finishing position, so I would go one further: award points to the chase drivers according to where they finish among the chase drivers only, and points to the rest of the field according to their finish order at large; in other words, if Gordon is 1st, and Martin 5th, and 3 non-chasers 2nd, 3rd, 4th, award first place points to Gordon, 2nd place points to Martin, and so on for the chase drivers, making how the non-chasers start and finish a non-issue for the chasers.

Maybe give 100 'chase' points for 1st, 90 for second, and so on..........

I think combined as you guys have presented is a hell of an idea and would solve the early elimination of chase drivers. IMHO there should be very few contenders eliminated at this point.

The chase idea seems to have played itself out with a lot of the fans. A lot of excitement watching the 48 do it again.......... zzzzzzzzzzzz............

Seems to me if the only way to make the Chase better is to make it - and the racing - even more artificial, them Maybe it is time to drop the Chase?

Racing Championships are season long accomplishments. The 'chase' is a joke.

The Chase sort of discounts all the other cars that are trying to win each race still.

It devalues all the effort these guys make to show up and race every weekend just for the love of it.

I was never a fan of saying -watch these guys-the rest are losers already.

The championship should be determined by who wins the most races. Every week, the racing would be great with great finishes.