this had adjustable aero, and it sucked.

The most basic problem here is that if you tried to explain the new format to someone who hadn’t watched NASCAR before—forget about the rules on the race track, on pit road, in the garage and everywhere else, which, like many sports, are overwhelming enough on their own—they’d stare at you, mouth agape, wondering why…

Right. The Chase has put all of the attention on the back end of the season. Why not do more work promoting the races in the earlier part of the season, when you’re not competing with football?

I’ve been lobbying for years for them to try a standard dirt track format (heats, feature) for the All Star Race. That seems like the best testbed for this type of racing.

What’s funny is if you look at the standings at the end of the year WITHOUT the Chase factored in, there is better parity in champions. Jeff Gordon gets 7, Johnson has 3, and several others (Joey Logano, Carl Edwards) get a championship.

Exactly. Road Course ringers in the Cup Series are a thing of the past. Today’s drivers are good enough to compete at all tracks.

Off topic (but kinda on topic because of earplugs, Andrew when are you going to go to an NHRA event and do a story on it???? If you haven’t been you NEED to go.

Also over 25 million dollars in real estate.

He’s always been one of the classiest guys in the sport. Going to the pit box of the guy who you just had a wreck with while racing for a championships shows the caliber of person he is. However, as all of the reports have said, he’s a private person and the grind of a 38 week season can get to you after awhile. He…

That I’m not entirely sure of. I’m sure it’s “up to the discretion of NASCAR” or something stupid. Regardless, Manufacturers do manner in NASCAR.

Then why keep a “retro” brand like Indian and ax your forward thinking and modern brand?

Because the nose and tail come directly from the manufacturer and vary between the brands. Those pieces must have a resemblance to the road car. The nose piece is obviously the most important because it is what is being presented to the air first. Therefore, JGR and Toyota working together on the design of the road…

But first, a helmet.

Watching it again you’re 100% right. That race was a grudge race (heads up) which I missed. And you are correct, the S10 is a stick (odd choice for a drag car?).

Bracket racing. They were in an 11.0 index. If they run faster than an 11.000 they “break out” are disqualified. I’m guessing he saw how far out front he was and tapped the brakes to make sure he didn’t run faster than 11.0.

These are like the only two possibilities for this movie.

Great point. They couldn’t deviate too much at the start for fear of rattling the core audience. They have three years to steer the ship in whichever direction they want.

NHRA now regulates the angle of the headers. Cruz said in his interview that they didn’t even have their most laid back set on the car. Regardless, it’s still much more angle then they used to run.

The headers certainly didn’t help, but the main cause of this was the clutch grabbing all at once at 330 ft. The clutch shouldn’t be fully locked up that early in the run. The result was waaay too much power at that point of the run.

Ahhh yes that’s right. I had forgotten about that. That thing is insane.