WHAT I HEARD ON THE LOCAL NEWS THIS MORNING

I heard, twice this morning, that one of the announcements the most excellent Brian France will announce in his upcoming press conference concerns a change in the awarding of points in the 2011 season. It seems the plan is to award 43 points to the winner, then drop one point per position to last place. There is no mention for bonus points for leading a lap, leading the most laps, winning the pole,winning the race, or kissing D.W.'s rear end.

I outlined this very plan in one of the Forums I either posted or responded to months ago. And, being one of limited imagination and intelligence, I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands others out there who came up with the same thing. Is NASCAR actually listening to fans? Reading post on Racers Reunion? Pulling their heads out of the beach sand? Who knows?

I will look forward, with dread for the most part, to hearing other announcements to come from the most excellent BZF.

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: 03/10/17 09:18:24AM

You will get bonus points when you say BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY!!!

They are doing this because Fryin Brian was never good at math ....

Looks like a good idea

I am in favor of anything that kills that joke called the "Chase". However, as you, and many others have said, it only makes sense to give bonus points forspecific achievements such as winning, most laps led, pole positions, etc. After all, isn't racing supposed to be about performance? I particularly liked Pkl's suggestion about 0 points for positions 36-43 and 0 points for running less than 2/3 of a race (excepting mechanical failure & wrecks). If taken out by mechanical failure or wreck before the 2/3 point, the driver could receive the finishing position points plus whatever other performance points he/she may have earned. This might require a little tweeking, but the idea is to eliminate the "start & parkers".

There are no extra points for running over diggers camera??? If you put that structure in play then those little runs to the front for the 5 points will be useless------------ but then you can conserve the car(and driver) till the end then make a mad dash to the front on the last lap and win-------------------or cause another BIG ONE

Gotta be a bonus for winning. I, for one, am totally sick of "points racing" - I'm old enough to remember the pre-Winston years when drivers actually tried to win races.


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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"

Richard Guido said:

They are doing this because Fryin Brian was never good at math ....

Looks like a good idea

Can anyone tell meANYTHING that BZF was good at????

I have to believe that BZF and friends have really had their heads in the sand for the last several years. As PattyKay alluded to, if Bill France, Jr. had set out to pick one person with the specific instruction to "do everything you can do to destroy NASCAR", he could not have made a better pick than Brian France. Unless this upcoming press conference specifically addresses the real problems which Brian & his merry men have created in the past several years, i.e., the "Chase", the top 35, the "lucky dog", the "start & parkers", etc., then I fear that good NASCAR racing (as Bill, Sr. & Bill, Jr. envisioned) will become a distant memory & will continue to travel down that "declining interest" road which we have seenduring the BZF era.

You will never hear me say those words....guess I'll be at the rear of the pack for the rest of my days...lol

Frank Craig said:

You will get bonus points when you say BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY!!!