My take on the COT...
NASCAR and the teams have had time to work on this thing and it shows, they need more time. I'm puzzled by something, as time goes by and advancements are made in this sport you would think that the car would improve at a steady pace. I don't see this happening.The COT, now, is basicly a Indy car with a body on it, a full on race car with some of the best engineers in the country working on it. Seems that NASCAR has taken the best teams in all of auto racing and given them a peice of equipment that can't run consistantly in it's present form and not allow them to make any changes to it. The racing is suffering, the teams are hand cuffed and the ratings are on a steady decline. Hey NASCAR, hows that COT working out?Bumpertag in S. Carolina
Biggest thing I hate is nobody has choices anymore. They dictate gears, tire pressures, heck you're not even allowed to start a race with less than a full tank of fuel. The Junior Johnsons and Smokey Yunicks have been forced out, and with them half the excitement of the race.
If there were room for adjustments on the car of tin you would see improvements,this last week i think there was a big discussion over another car not meeting the template,no it wasnt a roush or hendrick car--it was what used to be called a backmarker back in the day--but this deviation from the template was due to a mechanic setting on car while in line to inspected--now thats just to close what do you do?? suggestions anyone??
Robbie I respectfully disagree with you on a couple of things here but I don't want to get too far away from the main topic of the column. I will say that NASCAR's biggest blunder was turning it's back on it's own past, which owes a great deal to mechanical ingenuity, and that's what the COT destroys.