No big changes expected in Chase format
Quote selected text Published December 1st, 2006 in NASCAR News
NASCAR has all but ruled out major changes to the point system or Chase for the Championship format, three of the sanctioning body’s top officials said Thursday.
President Mike Helton, vice president for competition Robin Pemberton and Nextel Cup series director John Darby said if there are any changes, they’ll be minor. Helton said there is no need “to fix what isn’t broken,” and Darby said the most likely adjustment will be a few more points for wins.
An announcement, he said, probably would come in January. Darby said NASCAR executives favor keeping the Chase field at 10 drivers, but he wouldn’t rule out changing the format to make it slightly easier for someone below 10th place to qualify. Currently, any driver below 10th place who is within 400 points of the leader would qualify, and that hasn’t happened yet. Pemberton said NASCAR won’t drastically alter the existing formula, partly because of the risk of having someone who wins a few times during the Chase running away with it.
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THANK GOODNESS!!! Enough with the constant changes, so glad it’s at a stand still but knowing NASCAR they’ll change something else up to alter how the guys recieve points, etc. Some changes have exhaulted them where they are today, but so many things I feel NEVER should’ve been changed. What was wrong with things the way they were to begin with? “Don’t Fix What Isn’t Broke?” Then why the changes? Call me old fashioned, or biased to the way things were, but when you go changing things too much, you KILL what many of us who were born into this sport or grew up on it, our outlooks. I understand NASCAR is always looking for that next marketing ploy, but what about all us “OLD WAY” race fans. Just gonna keep pushin’ till we’re ALL out in the cold…Don’t get me wrong I love how they’ve upped the way the driver is safer and all that. But the other constant rule changes and ploy’s to bring in the “younger crowd” is getting old. If they were REAL fans, they’d be into this for the sport. Not the sparkle and glitter of it all. So on other terms, what wasn’t broke to begin with, didn’t need fixing…or am I just too as the “NEWER” In crowd call it, outdated and too hick. I don’t know, but as I stand and continue to breath this sport I will forever want things the way the WERE, when stock cars were stock cars and race car drivers..were one of the same!!