First of all, to the greatest group of peeps I know, good day, and how
have you been? I notice that Clumpy and Tim P, among a few haven't been
able to be around in their usual ways, but I have missed you all.
I was talking to our newest member, brickyardnut, and something occured
to me that I thought I would make a question for us all.
I know that the Chase for the Sprint Cup isn't a very popular with many,
and many of those absolutely abhor it. I am in that group. It has become
a joke of a bad idea. Actually, it wasn't a really bad idea, but a
really bad application of something designed to increase excitement for
the cup championship. After all, how many of us did tune out for the
last two or three races of the season when it was clear before
Rockingham who the winner was going to be. Wasn't much to watch for.
This year's chase has been a sham from the word go to me, and somehow,
Jaimie McMurray screwed up and won Talladega, thus breaking the mantra
of, "only chasers win" theorem. I digress. Here's what I'm coming to:
Let's say that Nascar asked you how you would construct the chase. Now,
you have to understand that I don't see Nascar ever coming to its
senses, for fear of looking stupid, because after all, they look truly
brilliant right now. So, take it as it is. You have to have the chase. I
know that Tim and some others have said some good things about this
before, such as starting the chasers in the back according to
qualifying, you know, fastest chaser starts 33rd and all, and I believe
that someone suggested starting them midpack... anyway, what format
would you give the chase, and... AND.. what tracks would you choose for
the last ten? The ONLY criteria is that there is a ten race chase, like
there is now. How would you make it more exciting?
I'll be the first penguin in shark infested waters here.
1) Remove the 'top 35' in points, and make everyone qualify on time. No
past champs, no 'I'm a chaser' provisionals.
fact. Qualify, start.
2) Yeah.. start the chasers in back. You can all list this or not if it
is your idiom as well.
3) Open up the plates at Talladega, or if you wanted to put Daytona in
the chase.. put a 1400lb spring on the right front, and let these cars
get back to 200mph. It would force them to lift in the turns, instead of
just runnin round there with it flat on the mat, pack racin, putting
flyin Ryan in a good frame of mind so that he will shut up.
4) Take the strict template measurements, open them up, and amend the
rule to only allow just enough tolerance of mods in order to keep it
safe. My point here is to let these guys do their jobs, and be
innovative.
5)Call Goodyear up, tell them that if they cannot give us a safe tire to
race with, that we will consider them in breach of contract. In other
words, let the owners decide for themselves what tire mfgr they want to
run, just like they let them do with virtually every other part on the
car. I realize that Nascar gives them the chassis and wing/wing mount
assemblies, but you get the point. Competition, yeah, it's good for
business, which would be real good for that crazy notion of these cars
actually racing. Nascar wants to keep that mantra of 'keeping costs
down', then by golly, let tire manufacturers compete for business...
which brings me to...
6) get rid of yellow line rule. quit forcing the drivers to make
decisions that will hurt someone..
my tracks I would choose, in no particular order are, Talladega ,
Atlanta, Richmond, Bristol, Watkins Glen, Martinsville, Dover,
Darlington, Indy, and finish it up at Daytona. Race all disciplines, if
you want to have true parity of skill and luck amongst the chase field.
I would also expand the chase field to 15 cars.. no points. Most wins
wins the cup.. if no one wins, then best average finish. Lastly, I would
allow for practice on Friday and Saturday.
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