The "agenda" should be to win every week, for every team. Any other agenda is ridiculous, which is why I detest NASCAR's lame point system. It rewards teams which can run well, but not quite win. Bologna!

Apparently the World of Outlaws disagrees with you too...

mmi16 - 19 October 2009 03:42 PM

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

Agreed but apparently NASCAR doesn't quite get the big picture here.

aeros71 - 01 November 2009 02:24 PM

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

I quite agree. I cringe every time a driver says, "We had a good points day" or anything else pertaining to points racing. Johnson doesn't win a lot of races, just enough races to benefit him points-wise. I can guarantee you if they changed the format to award the championship by races won, the level of competition would increase.

I think NASCAR knows there are problems, but it has problems of its own: a combination of ego and inertia, evevn fear.

For so long they have staged-managed the racing, they are afraid to admit they went too far, and they are even more afraid that whatever they do might make even more people angry (justifiably so; if whatever they did did not Immediately result in a few excellent races, they would get nothing but even louder complaining and lower ratings.)

NASCAR, for all its falling ratings and shrinking attendance, is still the only national racing series making money, and that involves an intricate web of sponsors, teams, manufacturers, media, and fans of different persuasions. NASACR doesn't know if one tiny change might unravle the whole thing, leaving them looking like IRL.

Besides, it is the Chase, the Car, the balance between "Beatin' and bangin'" and clean races which alienate a portion of fans (I loved hearing Ryan Newman telling the fans who liked crashes to stay home, but NASCAR won't do that,) the competition with NFL, and the fear that without hype NASCAR will have only racing fans, of which there simply aren't enough.

Imagine if pro wrestling decided, no characters, no costumes, no choreography, just honest Olympic-style wrestling? The sport would cease to exist in two weeks.

NASCAR just doesn't know which part of the hype and the faking is too much, and which part is keeping the non-race NASCAR fans interested.

Hell just let Hendrick put in as many cars as it takes to launder his money and let roush have maybe 2or3 and tell everybody else to stay home?