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And they call this a shootout???

Submitted by drflavio309, 2009

Changes to the shootout, when I read this I almost got excited, til I read the first line. Then it started to sink in, gone are the days of real competition where drivers show up and really race, if this keeps up like it is going now we are going to see the shootout become a group singing with all drivers in the series showing up to cross the line arm in arm singing kum-bi-ya.Look at what FRANCECAR has done since Brian France took over,Top 35 rule, this is for the sponsors so the top 35 teams dont get sent home for not being fast enough to make the field put it back to if you cant go fast you go home!C.O.T. FRANCECAR says this is to even out the field and make the drivers safer,. ok I am all for safer car, but do you have to make them all the same, like the IROC cars of old? The C.O.T. Cars suck!!!The last bastion of real racing was the Bud shootout, where drivers who won a race or sat on a pole during the previous season got to go at it for a big chunk of change. now it has turned into more of that make all cars equal crap.I really hate to say it I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but now he has shot himself in the foot. Brian France needs to go away, dont care where he goes but he needs to leave and let the drivers get back to real racing. Brian France has taken a good sport and killed it with rules and changes that only serve to line his pockets.Like I have said be fore..The more I learn about NASCAR the better I like dirt.the dr.

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Jeff Gilder ·
If you want a dose of how misguided some of the fans ar….I heard a radio personality interviewing a fan at Daytona for…. whatever pre-season Thunder is now…the lady said she applauded Jeff Gordon and all the other drivers who have taken pay cuts to make the sport more affordable to the fans. I think I missed something here. I think she thought that was why some of the tickets at Daytona are half -price now.I heard all this recent stuff about making this race a “manufacturer’s shootout”…and your right doc…I think the singing has begun…or perhaps the the fat lady I hear in the background.
Rob Amos2 ·
Hopefully Nascar will listen to the Fans. But I think it will take the Fans to let Nascar know that soon, we will all go back to the short tracks that we grew up with to get our racing fix.Nascar needs to lower costs all the way around,Team owner costs, and lower sponsor costs. Lower the Camping Fees, and Rv fees. We all need to call the Tracks and tell them how we feel. Email Nascar tell them they will lose their fans. And if they see it enough they will have to do something about it. BUT WE HAVE TO DO MORE THAN JUST TALK ABOUT IT. Lets TAKE BACK OUR SPORT. OR better yet lets start our own. Now that sounds like a plan.
Jeff Gilder ·
I’m liking that plan, Rob!
Mike Sykes ·
Kudos to all the above. If Big Bill was around he would put Brian back in the hotdog stand where he belongs and the sport would benifit from that move alone. Then he would take some of the drivers behind the wood shed for a good pow-wow and bring the STOCK cars back and drop the top 35 deal in lake Lloyd and if you cant run fast enough to stay with the big dogs then stay on the porch attitude and run the race as a sport as it should be then you would see some racing. This political crap they call racing today just makes me sick. I will not buy a ticket a shirt or hat or any souviener. I do however by some of the sponsors products because they are the one that is being taken to the cleaners by drivers and Nasscar. Opps I just cant seem to spell that name right. or maybe I did.
drflavio309 ·
I would love to see brian in the hotdog stand…but then again.. I like hot dogs and I wouldn’t want to mess that upl…the dr.
Rob Amos2 ·
Oh MY God Its a 7.000.00 dollar Hot Dog Nascar approved of course.
Mike Sykes ·
They would not let him prepare the hot dogs! It wouldnt look good to have mustard and ketchup on that $5,000.00 wall street suit but there again who would teach him to make a hotdog. It takes common sence to do that job.

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