For so many years of my life, this is the time of year that would rival the anticipation of a 6 year old at Christmas time as I looked forward to the annual trek to Daytona for the 500. I always wanted to attend the Twins on Thursday but work always prevented that. I usually got to the track very early on the Saturday morning after driving all night and staked out my place in the infield. At first, Saturday was the Modified-Sportsman race which became the Busch, which became the Nationwide and is now close to the spectical of the 500 itself. I think this year will be a little more special on Saturday because the guys who run the series as regulars will sort of have their interests protected to an extent by the new NASCAR rules.
As for the 500, that is my urgent request to NASCAR. Please, pretty please, give us something to enjoy on Sunday. I am hoping the racing will be close, safe,and exciting. The constant tinkering with the rules going on since this past Saturday night indicates, at least to my untrained mind, that NASCAR is clueless in the area of managing this race. Did not these cars and drivers test there in January? Was it not possible to know then about the two car breakaway drafting? Was it not possible to anticipate what would happen this month? Where are the "experts"? Now, we are a few days away from what should be the biggest spectical in stock car racing and the rules are being changed to the extent, as I understand them, to cause cars to overheat if they draft closely for more than a couple laps. What is it about this that I'm missing? NASCAR is attempting to regulate competition by subjection $100,000.00 engines to overheat and blow? I'm really outdated on this one.
It would seem, after the debacle of the pothole red flags last year, and all the expense of repaving that track, that NASCAR would want the best possible presentation on Sunday. These last minute changes seem to me to be a desparate attempt to do something, but I don't even understand what that something is.
So, please, pretty please, NASCAR, put some control back in the hands of the teams to compete for the win. There are drivers capable of racing for the win, teams very capable of managing their own fortune in the race. Please try to refrain from having last minute changes complicate this race. It is the ONE race I will definitely watch this season. Whether or not there will be others I sit down for depends on how you handle this scenario.
Tim
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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.
updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM