The right direction ?

Mrclause , a R/R member made a statement in a post ,''What do you people want''. Got me to thinking ,,what do i really wanna see in a Nascar race? It has been so long that i have seen a good Nascar race IMO,that i no longer know what i want.This i do know, after the passing of Big E,,it has not been the same,no matter how hard i try.Maybe someone can give some ideas of what we are wanting to see..I know i don't have no answers.

updated by @max-plummer: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM

pkl - your right that was the best race all year - you hit the nail on the head !!!

Yeah, that was one of the best races I have seen all year. And, of course, it's good to see Marcos in Victory Lane as well

I see glimmers of hope...like Watkins Glen. And I try to come to grips with the fact that racing will never be again the sport I grew up loving. I look for things to like....notfinding that many. I loved seeing Bowyer run through the pits in Phoenix to engage Gordon. What does that tell you?

I would love to see top level NASCAR (any of the top three) back on the dirt tracks. There is hope there. I would love to see the Nationwideseriesreturn to the smaller venues and become more accessible by start-up teams rather than being dominated by big money....an extension of the cup teams. Don'tknowif there is much hope there...but I keep hoping.

I've given up on the cup series...it will run its course..almost complete now.

I suppose that is a lot to hope for...but that is what I'm wanting to see.

Good topic, Max!

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What PKL described is an excellent example of the racing that I'd like to see. Her point about pulling back to show the action is also valid.Additionally, I'd like the announcers to call the race that's happening, not the one they want to see. They have about 40 cameras at each race, why do I only see close-ups of the sponsor logo on the leader's hood?Reduce the in-car shots to a maximum of five minutes per race. There's nothing to see there. Even when used to show how a driver avoided an accident there's more smoke than revelation. Reduce the bumper and roof cams to zero minutes.Reduce on-air staff to one announcer, one color man and four pit reporters. Reduce all pre-race shows to just Kyle Petty and Ken Schrader sittin' in a booth telling us the straight truth. Cut all of the post-race interviews. They rarely serve as anything more than sponsor call-outs. Bring back race queens in Victory Lane. Have them kiss the pit crew if the driver's wives are jealous.But the needed fixes go beyond the race and how it's broadcast. There's more that must change.If there's gonna be a fight, fines should be reduced for each actual punch that connects. All we see know is a bunch of guys standing chest-to-chest and yelling. Sometimes the smallest guy on the team will hold back the gas man while he waves his arms around like the robot in a bad science fiction movie. The 1979 Daytona 500 would have been nothing if Cale had his guys go see Donnie's guys to tell them he was perturbed.I want the nascar rule book published and all fines, and penalties determined by a six person panel consisting of three former champion drivers, and three retired championship-winning crew chiefs from any of the three major nascar series. They should preside over all three series and be chosen by the car owners for a one year term.I want to see cars with stock sheetmetal, running engines available in my street car, driving the same wheels as my street car.I want more types of tracks. Short tracks, dirt tracks, road courses, superspeedways. Run green-white-checker laps in reverse. They couldn't possibly run into each other more than they do now.I want teams and sponsors to loosen up their contracts so that drivers can freely move between F1, Indycar, sportscars and nascar.I want a two car maximum for all nascar teams. Holman-Moody and Petty Enterprises furnished a lot of cars and parts for teams in an earlier era but it didn't seem like only two teams were running everything. I'd like to see whatever we have now be more like what we had then.I want Dodge back. Unlike seemingly every other fan, I also want to see Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz.