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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 654205" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>dead wrong! (not a pun) A good percentage of NASCAR drivers that have died from wrecks did so by their own actions. You simply can't go bumping into every tom, dick & harry without it catching upto you sooner or later (and you know who they are). Their sty;e of crash and burn has run it's course and now the crowds are tired of seeing it in every race. A Cup Race is third rate on a good day compaired to an average Sprint Car race, and fifth rate compaired to the samething on asphalt. But of course if you like watching 25 cars following each other in single file for two hundred laps then so be it. What they should do is simply run a twenty lap race without restrictor plates and factory shaped steel bodies. Let the owners decide whatkind of a car they want to race and race with an engine that came in the car. Then just maybe that 33% of the audience might come back (I doubt it). </p><p> </p><p>NHRA and IRL did exactly the samething that Nascar is doing, and untill recently one looked to be a dying sport. The other is dead. IRL has now decided that they must have more than one chassis and more than one engine. But another problem with IRL cars is that they are so fast they are hard to watch up close (about 40mph faster than a Cup Car on anyday of the week). Believe it was no other than Smokey Yunick himself that told the NASCAR folks they were not ready for the big time when it came to open wheel racing (Penske was the exception)</p><p> </p><p>Now we look at Bonneville and the dry lakes kinda thing. Looks easy till you try it. 99.99& of NASCAR cars wouldn't pass a saftey tech inspection alone (mostly minor issues). The bodies are not factory shaped no matter what year they came from, so that puts them in either a streamliner class or a run for time and speed only thing. They usually run on the short course, but more than one has tried the long course. The fastest car from the NASCAR stables has been about 238 mph. The old hands there could probably wring out another 10mph, but it won't happen. </p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 654205, member: 25383"] dead wrong! (not a pun) A good percentage of NASCAR drivers that have died from wrecks did so by their own actions. You simply can't go bumping into every tom, dick & harry without it catching upto you sooner or later (and you know who they are). Their sty;e of crash and burn has run it's course and now the crowds are tired of seeing it in every race. A Cup Race is third rate on a good day compaired to an average Sprint Car race, and fifth rate compaired to the samething on asphalt. But of course if you like watching 25 cars following each other in single file for two hundred laps then so be it. What they should do is simply run a twenty lap race without restrictor plates and factory shaped steel bodies. Let the owners decide whatkind of a car they want to race and race with an engine that came in the car. Then just maybe that 33% of the audience might come back (I doubt it). NHRA and IRL did exactly the samething that Nascar is doing, and untill recently one looked to be a dying sport. The other is dead. IRL has now decided that they must have more than one chassis and more than one engine. But another problem with IRL cars is that they are so fast they are hard to watch up close (about 40mph faster than a Cup Car on anyday of the week). Believe it was no other than Smokey Yunick himself that told the NASCAR folks they were not ready for the big time when it came to open wheel racing (Penske was the exception) Now we look at Bonneville and the dry lakes kinda thing. Looks easy till you try it. 99.99& of NASCAR cars wouldn't pass a saftey tech inspection alone (mostly minor issues). The bodies are not factory shaped no matter what year they came from, so that puts them in either a streamliner class or a run for time and speed only thing. They usually run on the short course, but more than one has tried the long course. The fastest car from the NASCAR stables has been about 238 mph. The old hands there could probably wring out another 10mph, but it won't happen. gary [/QUOTE]
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