NASCAR has done it this time !

RustyRatRod said
I think when they figured out they could bunch the cars up together for a more exciting race, that was the beginning of the end. I don't think anyone in NASCAR wants drivers DEAD, but if they can somehow get a lot of wrecks without people hurt, or hurt badly, that's what they're lookin for. Then, they started doing all the stupid stuff @crackedback Rob talked about. Add all of that up and the sport isn't about actual car racing anymore. Like @CichliDart said, NASCAR is a business. It sure as heck is. Like any big business, you get avarice and greed involved and it all goes to hell in a handbasket.

On a different note, I'd still love to see these new drivers drive some bonified 1960s stock cars. With stock based suspensions and bias ply tires. I'm not saying these newer cars are easy to drive, because Lord knows I ain't no driver, but I'd love to see these boys get behind the wheel of say one of Ned Jarrett's old early 60s Galaxies, for example.

The Indy tire fiasco race was another, play to your favorites from the control tower.

My opinion, you know what you have in the car, if the thing is good for 10 laps, you better be pitting. If it goes 15 laps, then that team should be REWARDED for getting a better set up. Everybody and their dead grandparents knew Johnsons car was a scalded dog for 5-6 laps, after that it faded fast and a tire killer at/after 10. Guys like Edwards didn't have the start pace, but could run consistent for 12-15 laps... He would run down Johnson hard after 6 laps. Tower decides that throwing cautions in the interest of safety was the right thing to do. When did the tower... roughly 10 laps where Johnson was dead meat for Edwards.

Manipulate the results just a little bit. SOS That was it for me after all the stuff I've known and seen from the "management" over the years around the "sport".

This "heat" racing is stupid as **** too. A race shouldn't be 3 or 4 heats unless it's local short track or sprint cars, to get to the main.