Anytime a jap car wins.
updated by @eric-cardona: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
TODAY'S NATIONWIDE RACES THAT HAS 1/2 EMPTY STANDS AND SPRINT CUP DRIVERS WINNING ALL THE NATIONWIDE RACES !!
Thanks for any information or photos posted.
Dennis Garrett
Richmond,Va.USA
great answer Dennis, I totally agree.....
Every NASCAR race since they allowed Toyota to enter them!
I've never been to a bad race anywhere at any track in any division. As soon as the engines cranked and the ground rumbled and my heart pounded and the smell of burning rubber and fuel was in the air, it was a very good afternoon or evening.
However, these last ten years, I've been bored to tears trying to watch any NASCAR division races on television with the follow-the-leader, no passing, no side-by-side competition and the stupid lucky dog and wave around rules that negate great drivers making up laps.
When I see a driver like Danica Patrick passed by the leaders dozens of times, never make up a lap racing to get back by the leader, yet finish on the lead lap, I might as well play a spin the arrow stock car racing game as attend or watch on television. They've turned the events into pure contrived exhibitions, not races anymore.
One of the most thrilling things in racing was to watch a driver start on the tail end of the lead lap and try to maintain the position. Now that's all gone. Somehow, NASCAR has managed to turn just about every race into a fuel mileage bore. Next year we'll be subjected to the announcers guessing if the drivers are changing their track bars. We'll probably have different colored lights on the screen to tell us when it happens.
Just bring back the racing and cut the crud. All of today's NASCAR races suck.
"contrived exhibitions, not races"
Just can't say it any better than that. Amen Dave,
The 2005 Formula 1 US Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Basically, it was a situation similar to the first Talladega race except in this case, only the Michelin tyres were affected. So all the Michelin teams pulled in to the pits, leaving only the 6 Bridgestone shod cars to run the 'race'. It was a huge blow to F1's popularity in the US.
I remember the buildup to that race and didn't watch because it seemed like it would be a poor race. Three years later, Goodyear and NASCAR nearly replicated the story and cars were forced to pit every ten laps. The prestige of the Brickyard 400 has been sinking ever since.
Funny how Indy was the common denominator in both races, despite being words apart. Almost like the track itself doesn't want anything except Indycars to race on it.
What's worse is those cautions every 10 laps probably put on better racing than a typical Brickyard 400 green flag run.
That Indy F-1 was indeed a stinker, Sandeep, along with the NASCAR Indy race cited by Andy.
12 Hours of Sebring last year where most of the race was under full course yellow.
I would say the year they started puting fake head lights on race cars man that SUCKS
I hate to break this to you, but that was this year. Some of those yellows lasted for almost an hour...
Oh, Leon, my man.... you have hit on a pet peeve of mine. I just hate those silly fake headlight and tail light decals. This is NASCAR, not sporty car racing where the cars kept their headlights and tail lights. I always appreciated the workmanship of the headlight covers devised by the fabricators that made the cars look like "real" race cars.
You have made me remember a story Bud Moore told me about sporty car driver George Follmer driving 11 Cup races for Bud in 1974, including the Daytona 500. Bud said he just knew Follmer was braking going into the Dayton turns, but swore he wasn't. Bud finally rigged up a brake light on his #15 during 500 practice and watched as it came on every time George drove down into turn 1 at Daytona, proving what Bud thought and Follmer had denied.
One day, looking at a close up shot of a Kawasaki during a World Superbike broadcast, I noticed fake headlight decals on it too. Manufacturers just can't pass up an opportunity to gain brand identity these days I guess.
I bet dem sammiches would have tasted a darned sight better if it had been the #43 pinning the field a lap down! A money saving reminder here, too, for the younger fans, Chase... don't spend the extra money on "crunchy" peanut butter when sitting in the first ten rows!
