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Is anyone really interested in the Nascar deal? Honestly. Pretty much the off season for sprint cars, so as race fans, does this Chase deal gain or lose interest? Something that should be looked into or avoided?

Savage

I'll admit that I watch NASCAR when the real racing season is over in the midwest, but not so much for the Chase. I don't watch for the wrecks either. I'm a geek, so I like the engineering (chassis changes, engines, tire pressures, aerodynamics, etc) and the strategy. I've found that I tend to follow teams with really smart crew chiefs even if I don't particularly like the driver. Although, since ESPN/ABC has taken over the broadcasts, I've found it to be a bit like listening to Forrest Gump describe astrophysics. Thank God for SIRIUS Satellilte radio and a television mute button.

The Mermaid

NAPCAR=Watching paint dry!

I watch it and I have interest, to a point. To me, it isn't REAL racing...it is more of a show. When I want to experience real racing, I will go to one of my local tracks. While I will turn the race on TV, I always turn on the Sirius Radio. At least the announcers follow the race in lieu of just the front running car or Chase drivers. There are times that they are excitedly announcing the action at the back of the pack while the TV guys are showing the front three cars running around the track in a line, two car lengths apart for hours. Are the TV guys even at the same race? Do they know anything about racing?

It has been even more of a yawn this year watching the Hendrick Cup and the COT. The car does not race well, and tuning in to watch a race where you already know the outcome, down to being able to call the cautions is just plain boring.

Only one month and ten days to the Rumble in Fort Wayne and then only a couple of weeks till the Chili Bowl!! Then we will see some real racing!

t_warrior

last time I looked the sprints and NAPCAR run from feb to Nov and that alot of current nascar shoes came from open wheel,,plus isnt there a bunch of them that jump into sprints and midgets to have fun and they proove they still can get it done,,,,ie..smoke Johnson at the chili bowl...for one,,

get balls and run the top!!!

I'm talkin points structure, not which is better. WoO, local, etc.

Savage

Smoke Johnson?

Fenders are like vacuums... they both suck.

Gosh, Savage! When you put it THAT way, I guess I'm old fashioned. I still live in that backward world where the guy that runs the best the whole season with all things being equal should win the points championship. I don't like people working with kid gloves around the contenders either. Do you think Billy Alley would lay back in the pack and not try to win the race if he knew he had the points deal locked up? Do you think Brian Brown would avoid a stupid slide job on someone trying to win if he knew he couldn't possibly take the championship? It's more exciting when people race for the win every time. Let's stick with full season consistency and not the "last 10 races" consistency. I don't want to watch a guy who has been mediocre for the first 26 races shine in the last 10 and take it all. Why can't we have someone who consistently shined all season and had 1 bad race at the end? Speaking in complete generalities, of course.

The Mermaid

Racing is different from the stick & ball sports. I think it is foolish to try to make it more like them by trying to have a "playoff". Plus attendance and tv ratings are both down even for the Chase races, so I guess it ain't working anyhow.

Just another way to screw Jeff Gordon out of a Championship

Smoke Johnson was the name Tony Stewart entered the chili bowl as a few years back. Nobody knew it was him. The announcers were like, "Man, that Smoke Johnson can drive."

Yep.....twice now. NASCAR doesn't want J.G. equaling or eclipsing Richard Petty or Earnhardt, Sr.'s seven championships. So they invented this Mickey Mouse Chase thing.

Fenders ? We don't need no stinking fenders !!!

TV coverage - Rusty Wallace is the dumbest most annoying commentator on TV. yesterday the cars were coming in for the final pit stops "everybody is pitting but Keneseth is staying out there" then the camera goes to Kenseth coming into the pits. As tho he is not even watching the cars!

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

Naw - I disagree -- Rusty is way, WAY worse than DW. Darrell makes me laugh - Rusty makes me laugh at him. Damn he says some ignorant shit...

Phil Taylor

home-theater-systems-advice.com

personally not a jeff gordon fan,great driver,jus not in to root for rainbow warriors..if jeff gordon is gonna win a championship in the chase format i think its gonna need a road course in it,,they go short trackin,,speedway and super speedway in the chase but they dont do anything to see if the chasers can hang on the road course good enuf to help them in the chase,,

can't wait to drink budwieser next season.

get balls and run the top!!!