NASCAR racing is designed to make its fans crazy. The suits that run the place can be equal parts smart and stupid. Permit me to explain. NASCAR, yeah, NASCAR was the first professional sports group to get back to work after the nationwide lockdown. I was shocked and better still, they did the job so well that most other sporting groups stole their approach, little matter. The main thing was NASCAR did it. Equal credit goes to the teams and drivers. Race fans now had something to watch on TV. How NASCAR convinced teams and drivers to race without one lap of practice is a conference call I would have paid to listen in on.
No matter the method, they talked drivers into racing into turn one at the start without so much as even a fast pace lap. Certainly put a high price on last season’s set-up notebook. Even more amazing, nobody crashed. Teams, crews, drivers, and officials all wore their masks, kept their local distance, and the world saw a professional sport pull it all together to present a series of great races. Well done NASCAR, and thank you.
Now, should you start to believe that this blog was going to be all praise, you’d be wrong — sorry. The same NASCAR suits that were smart enough to bring professional sports back to TV before anybody else were stupid enough to believe the it’s okay to force fans to give up most of a Sunday watching 400 miles of fairly boring racing, investing in the final 100, 50 and 25-miles of all out war only to ruin it by putting most the races in a two lap race under a “Green, White, Yellow" finish. In short, fans are robbed of the race they’ve been waiting all day to see. For fans, a yellow flag with 20 laps to go is heart-sinking. We all know that NASCAR will burn down 18 laps of prep to go “Green, White, Yellow”. True B.S. for the fans. That’s when "we-the-fans" would like to chock a NASCAR suit. Suggestion: any yellow of red flag under ten laps to go should pull the count back to ten. Yeah, some were tight on fuel...so what? Let them pit as required; the fans deserve ten laps of real racing after investing their entire day waiting for a real race to the finish.
Thoughts?
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