2 car push racing

is it just me...or does this 2 car pushing racing suck ?? unless you like waiting for the inevitable

BIG ONE ...

at least i didnt have to watch it on mrn...lol..been painting the basement foundation walls today...

took a break to watch the last 40 laps of pushing to the end...

The primary, basic, and fundamental cause of the problem is the race tracks...Daytona and Talladega were built before any of these aerodynamic/safety issues were understood. Big Bill's design criteria for Daytona: same size as Indianapolis (2.5 miles) only faster....a lot faster. Ten years later, 1969, the criteria for Talladega: create the next generation of Daytona. The aero/safety problems at 'Dega began immediately, with the driver boycott, etc. etc. and continues to the present. However, ISC is not going to change the track design, and admit a fundamental design flaw.

With the body-induced aero-profile being exactly the same foreach car, changing any body parameter, fuel cell size, pop-off-valve pressure yields an overall net effect of zero. The 35-car- pack returns or the tandem racing remains.Speed still being the problem, and with very little options left, NASCAR should havemandated drastically smaller and unrestricted engines for the super-speedways years ago....it would have proven cheaper than the route they taken. Who needs 900 horsepower anyway? 305 CI engines powering the speedway racers may look slow, but that's about the only solution left.

I have been a longtime fan of Jeff Burton and here's his take on two-car tandems, which I will continue to oppose.

Jeff Burton says keep the two-car tandem at Talladega
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011, 10:40 AM
By Doug Demmons - The Birmingham News al.com

TALLADEGA, Alabama -- Count Jeff Burton as a big advocate of two-car tandem racing at Talladega.

The driver known as the Mayor of the Garage for his thoughtful views said he thinks tandem racing is safer than the old days of big drafting packs and the Big One.

"I personally think that there is an advantage to the tandem thing," Burton said. "There's some disadvantages to it. The one thing it does do is it does separate the field a little bit."

He said tandem racing creates wrecks but "there's less cars wrecked because of the tandem thing versus not having it."

"To me this accomplishes a little bit of spreading the pack out without making the racing boring," he said. "Because of that I think they ought to keep it the way it is and not hamper our ability to tandem draft because it doesn't hurt the quality of racing."

maybe he should watch an afternoon of it and see if he feels the same way ???

opinions are like other body parts...everybody has one...lol

The pack racing was much worst than the tandem racing to me.I was at Talladega in April and it's hard to question the results when you have 8 cars fighting for the win and they all finish in less than a half second of each other. 4 rows of two was exciting.