It sure beats watching one guy lap the field ’cause they pushed enough gray areas within micrometers of being “red-flagged” on them that he lapped the field ’cause the blind guy (i.e. the guy with “Tech Inspector” on his shirt) with the tape measure and templates couldn’t put 2 and 2 together. I loved the old NASCAR races as much as the last person, and I do think NASCAR has made some poor choices in various capacities with their regulations… but I can frankly say that the CoT car sans aero push is a definite superior car to watch than the offset mongoloids in drag they run on the other weekends. Both are ugly but at least one of them is genuinely race-worthy.

Granted… I’d still prefer a good, old-fashioned, body in white homologation stock car series like what NASCAR was during the 60’s. Y’know, when like WRC, they used the actual body panels and general dimensions of the street cars? At the very least with all of the cost-containment efforts (good) they could take a composite mold off of a street car and slap a splitter on the front and a wing on the back. They could define a set of body constraints that all manufacturers have to build around, call it the 3 box effect (max dimensions for the nose from tip of nose to windshield edge, the windshield header height and rake, and the decklid length from tail of rear windshield to trailing edge of the deck, and let them design the street car within the constraints) They’ve already tested these waters with BGN E/W so I don’t doubt it’s headed for Cup eventually in some capacity.

I’ve no fault of rules and regulations however… if NASCAR had actually done a better job regulating the cars years ago the cars wouldn’t have become as overly expensive and difficult to pass with as they have today. It seems the more blog sites you get on the more you see people ranting and raving about this and that with some element of personal bias involved. As long as NASCAR is consistent with their penalties, then they’re everything anyone and everyone wants them to be. With that said, I think they were consistent for the CoT penalties they’ve set out… but I do believe as others have pointed out that Chad Knaus deserves a substantially larger penalty for the repeated acts.

They did the right thing in this case. They’re doing what they said they would do with the COT coming into effect. I congratulate them. Now, if they can just keep it up.

I like racing even if I don’t like the companies who produce it. The only other thing I could do would be to pick races on the street all weekend and get more speeding tickets. I’m not talented enough and cannot afford to have my own team on the track. Gotta have an outlet somewhere.

screw nascar… i’m goin to Lancaster… its non-sanctioned so the Street stock cars can do mostly whatever they want. ANY nascar track is being killed with rules

And gkirb
IRL lets the racers race, NASCAR is a big politics game which completley defeats the purpose of racing. IRL is real racing, even if their is only 19 cars. Its still 2 times better than DRAMA filled nASCAr

And they are frontstretch towards turn 1 on the outside of the track.

????? Did you have your coffee yet?

In the sport I love, dirt track racing, (yes, it has become a different sport now), rules anywhere you go in the country state that the driver is responsible for any and all actions of their crew.

Make the driver accountable too. I like the idea of the car sitting out a race or two as well. Again, if a team is punished in DTR, the car sits out.

If you want to make a statement, make one.

Paul

Thanks for the info Mike!!!