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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Okay seriously... some of the teams, like Hendrick, can't figure out how to keep a stock car off the bumpstops? They aren't making it easy to give Nascar any credit for knowing a damn thing about "real" racing, are they? Heaven forbid they ever try to go to fuel injection...
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I bet the car is faster on the bump stops than off. It just doesn't last the race distance.
Remember, this is the sport where the teams would run unsafely soft rear spring to get the mandated rear spoilers out of the airstream until NASCAR mandated the rear springs at restrictor races too. Now Hendrick Motorsports is gonna bitch that the COT isn't safe as designed, and force NASCAR to redesign the front suspension rather than just raise their front ride-height to keep it off the stops, or better yet, be allowed to innovate and design their own car.
NASCAR might as well just become a spec series. It would go along with the "debris" cautions and coin flip finishes. Really, after watching today's race, I think NASCAR has lots its soul... they showed all those fantastic racing moments over the years back when the sport was a real sport and could be dominated by great drivers and teams. Then I watched a race where there was so much parity that cars could go last to first then back to last in 30 laps.
I know the NASCAR fans love the passing, but it's so manufactured by ridiculous rules, forced cautions, mandated equipment... I won't say that it's "fixed" like wrestling, but it might as well be, since on any day, anyone can win the Daytona 500, regardless of team preparation or driver talent. All you gotta do is get in the race (which is hard to do because of the retarded "past champion's provision" bullshit). I'm not saying that
Newman didn't deserve the win, but he didn't really earn it more than by just being in the right place at the right time.
Give my Sato making a late race pass over Alonso for points any day. That one pass was more exciting than the sum of all the passes in this year's Daytona 500.