Nascar Wishlist

[Dr. Kstar]

What do you guys think is something this sport needs? There has been a lot of people complaining this season, so use this thread to explain the things you want to see to make Nascar more entertaining. Answers don't need to be likely, but they must be possible.
Mine:
- Make the Nationwide series and the Truck series have completely different schedules then cup.
- Allow a Cup racer to only race in one lower division race.
- Make Rookie's a bigger part of the sport. The rookie of the year award hasn't had any competition in the past years.
- Tracks smaller then 1 mile shouldn't need Safer Barriers. If they want them, widen the the track out a bit so they have the space they originally had.
- Find a system to eliminate start and parking. Even if this means banning cars that can't fund the whole race, it could improve things because there are cars that plan to run the whole race that miss the field because of s&p teams on occasion.
- Have Fox take over half the Cup and Nationwide season, and let Tnt hold the other half. Bring Allen Bestwick to Tnt, and have him, Wally, and Kyle Petty in the booth.
- The Truck Series can stay on speed all year, although Arca & the West and East series should also be televised full time.
- Bring back the Iroc Series. Have TNT or NBC cover it all season.

 

[David24]

So Bristol shouldn't have safer barriers? That doesn't make any sense.

I'd like to see a wider variety of Cup tracks.

 

[Dr. Kstar]

Bristol doesn't absolutely need it. Same for Darlington. They are way too narrow for that. The only thing is Darlington is way to high speed for no Safer Barriers.

 

[Carl Robinson]

What do you guys think is something this sport needs? There has been a lot of people complaining this season, so use this thread to explain the things you want to see to make Nascar more entertaining. Answers don't need to be likely, but they must be possible.
Mine:
- Make the Nationwide series and the Truck series have completely different schedules then cup.
- Allow a Cup racer to only race in one lower division race.
- Make Rookie's a bigger part of the sport. The rookie of the year award hasn't had any competition in the past years.
- Tracks smaller then 1 mile shouldn't need Safer Barriers. If they want them, widen the the track out a bit so they have the space they originally had.
- Find a system to eliminate start and parking. Even if this means banning cars that can't fund the whole race, it could improve things because there are cars that plan to run the whole race that miss the field because of s&p teams on occasion.
- Have Fox take over half the Cup and Nationwide season, and let Tnt hold the other half. Bring Allen Bestwick to Tnt, and have him, Wally, and Kyle Petty in the booth.
- The Truck Series can stay on speed all year, although Arca & the West and East series should also be televised full time.
- Bring back the Iroc Series. Have TNT or NBC cover it all season.

All these,
Bad Ideas.

 

[David24]

Bristol doesn't absolutely need it. Same for Darlington. They are way too narrow for that. The only thing is Darlington is way to high speed for no Safer Barriers.

Yes they do. Look up some Bristol crashes. Some of the hardest hits have taken place at Bristol. Like Kyle Petty's crash in '03 I think it was. And Yes Darlington needs them too. The width of the track doesn't determine if a car can have a hard hit or not.

 

[The Captain]

The Kyle Petty/Wally Dallenbach booth is one of the main reasons I can't stand TNT. They crap their pants and "ooooo oooo oh no!" anytime two cars so much as race each other. Keep Bestwick in the ESPN booth and let the TNT contract expire.

 

[Markfan]

I'm not going to talk about the other ideas, but IROC wasn't part of NASCAR. It was, however, dominated by NASCAR drivers. The series collapsed due to a lack of sponsorship, and as amazing as it was, I don't think that it will ever be coming back.

 

[K.Chuck]

What do you guys think is something this sport needs?

To go a few seasons with no changes, get some consistency back in the sport. After last seasons championship battle i think we have a good system. There has been so many changes over the last decade it would be nice to see some average to compare seasons and champions against.

 

[FloridaFan88]

1. Eliminate the Chase and give the drivers who truly won those championships on pre-Chase points their trophies retroactively.
OR If that doesn't happen, give the points leader a nice points bonus heading into the Chase
2. Eliminate the top-35 rule.
3. Have Fox/ESPN split the season with TNT covering the Coke Zero 400 only.
4. Bring back the Southern 500 to its former glory, by racing on Labor Day weekend.
5. Restore Atlanta's spring race and remove a race from New Hampshire.

 

[Dr. Kstar]

To go a few seasons with no changes, get some consistency back in the sport. After last seasons championship battle i think we have a good system. There has been so many changes over the last decade it would be nice to see some average to compare seasons and champions against.

No point starting that now, we have a brand new car coming out next year. I believe this is the best point system they have ever used, though.

 

[K.Chuck]

I dont see the 2013 car as being as big of a change to the racing as when they first went to the cot. It is a change i think necessary for better brand identity, and if there ever was a constant element of change throughout NASCAR it is that the cars have always evolved.

 

[LarryFoyt50]

Money dominates who gets how many races. You knows how much money does the channels pay for races. Millions. With the races like Arca and K&N series, they don't have the money to be all televise. If the run out of money, they just come like IROC. IROC was instering because champions would race and can save a car (most of the time.) Even though it paid points, it was treated like an All-Star race every time.

Besides with the start and park, they are making money. Look at the 30 car. They were going to run Kansas for the full race but missed Texas. Another example is the 66 from 2009. Dave Blaney ran really well at the Showdown with sponsorship from Red Rock Cafe. Dave had the talent to bring sponsorship like Aaron's for the 600.

I think the experience factor is what keeps drivers learning from veterans like Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, and Kasey Kahne to name a few. If they are all rookies in one series, they aren't going to fair well in Cup.

Honestly, what were you thinking of getting rid of the safer barriers. There has to be. They don't need room. If I add 20 more feet to the track at Bristol to the outside lane, they will still run into the wall. I have seen cars pretty torn up cars at short tracks. (Michael Waltrip 1990, Mike Harmon 2002, Kyle Petty 2003, Martin Truex Jr., 2011 shall I go on.)

Long story short, Money ran dry and isn't going to appear in other places magically. Nascar needs to get rid of the Chase. (Most of the time the Chase and the points champion are completely different.)

Also get rid of the wave around and bring the lap down cars up front. You got many battles and great racing. And the drivers haven't been really trying to push themselves. Texas had two cautions (One for a ball cap.) and the reason you didn't see caution is because the drivers have got smarter. How many rookies are out. 0-maybe 2. They know what boundaries are and don't push them too hard so they don't end up in 37th place with a lot less money than 11th when you are trying to get 10th. Money is a big factor.

-LF50

 

[Cheeze]

- Less cookie-cutter tracks and more short tracks and roadies. Let the tracks age and become slippery too. The worse the conditions, the better the driver has to be to win. (Don't blow the "worse conditions" out of proportion please)

- The same car (bodies) for Sprint Cup and Nationwide. It would eliminate some of the learning curb jumping from Nationwide to Cup, not to mention it could save the Nationwide Only teams some cash.

- A professional broadcast from from FOX. Mike, Larry, and Chris are fine but the Waltrips have to go (Maybe just keep DW for during the race). They make FOX look like a bunch of tasteless hicks, IMO.

- Less pre-race junk. Yes, junk. Have 10 minutes of "Booth" stuff, 10 minutes of driver interviews and then go racing. And if you are gonna have 30 minute - 1 hour pre-race shows, just eliminate Raceday, because it just gets redundant.

-No Chase. See Jeff Gordon's 2007 season for my argument.

 

[Markfan]

The only thing on my wishlist:

-Provide us with a service so that we can see every bit of footage in the NASCAR vault. I'd pay for a subscription of that.

 

[Cheeze]

The only thing on my wishlist:

-Provide us with a service so that we can see every bit of footage in the NASCAR vault. I'd pay for a subscription of that.

Yes! ^This.

Imagine the raw satellite feeds. Every race (From about 1980 on up, that is), Every lap, Every corner. If they released that somehow I would be forced to spend hours upon hours in front of my TV.

 

[Lauter]

Only 2 things:

-More Dodge´s on Nascar

-Wish to add another North American make such as Buick, Lincoln, etc.

 

[Dr. Kstar]

Also, why is there so much Tnt hate? I actually think at times they are better then Fox. When BP was still here, they for sure were better.

 

[RP Motorsports]

Allow a Cup racer to only race in one lower division race.

As much as people dont like seeing the Cup drivers dominate the lower series (me included), they are the ones selling tickets, bringing exposure, and bringing in money that keeps the series going.

Make Rookie's a bigger part of the sport. The rookie of the year award hasn't had any competition in the past years.

Problem is there havnt been rookies running the full schedule to compete for it. You know its bad when someone like Kevin Conway wins it by default.

Tracks smaller then 1 mile shouldn't need Safer Barriers. If they want them, widen the the track out a bit so they have the space they originally had.

I dont think theres any justifiable reason to run without Safer Barrier. We should be counting our blessings to be able to have that innovation in the sport to begin with. Bad things can happen at any track, reguardless of size or layout. Racing is extremely dangerous. The minute you start getting complacent is the minute you'll get a cold hard dose of reality.

Find a system to eliminate start and parking. Even if this means banning cars that can't fund the whole race, it could improve things because there are cars that plan to run the whole race that miss the field because of s&p teams on occasion.

Without it, people like Tommy Baldwin wouldve never even had a chance to start a team, let alone grow and progress. It provides an opportunity to start a team without any major investors or sponsors, especially in this economy. By eliminating it, you'd essentially be eliminating an avenue for new teams to come into the sport. I personally dont think we should ever be trying to turn away new teams.

I do understand that people dont like seeing a start & park team beat out another team that was planning on running the full race. However, this is racing. And part of racing is qualifying. If you get beat out by a start & park team, you really dont have anyone to blame but yourself. You need to go back to the drawing board and bring a better car next time.

Have Fox take over half the Cup and Nationwide season, and let Tnt hold the other half. Bring Allen Bestwick to Tnt, and have him, Wally, and Kyle Petty in the booth.

If it were up to me, I'd have Fox broadcast the whole season. I personally think the other channels dont even come close.

The Truck Series can stay on speed all year, although Arca & the West and East series should also be televised full time.

They need to broadcast the modified tours too. Best racing there is.

 

[labontefanboy]

Get rid of the top 35 rule. Make the drivers who qualify the fastest make the race. If Jooonyurrrrr crashes in qualifying, too damn bad. And it's not like somebody won't drop their S&P driver if Jr. brought sponsorship with him. I know that one time Richard Petty DNQ'd for a race (sometime in the '80s), D.K. Ulrich gave him his car cause Petty brought sponsorship with him. I'm sure that Joe Nemechek would gladly give up his ride for one race or two if it gave somebody else a better opportunity as well as getting Joe some cash.

Less cookie-cutters. I'm sorry if I seem like a crash-hungry 9 year old, but isn't there the whole saying that "rubbin's racin"? Where did that go this season? Even the traditional tracks like Bristol and Martinsville that you could count on haven't been there with as much beatin' and bangin'. The racing at the 1.5 milers hasn't been bad, but there are too many of those aerodynamic cookie-cutters on the schedule and it's turning into who has their chassis best setup that particular day, not about who has the most talent and can wheel a racecar really well. Let's take Dave Blaney for instance. His equipment-not so good. His ability to drive a racecar?-phenomenal. Last year, he obviously struggled on most 1.5 mile cookie cutters, but I specifically remember that he had an awesome run in last year's spring Richmond race, finishing 13th after running solidly all day. For an underfunded team with lackluster equipment, that's a great accomplishment, and it shows how the best racing comes when the tracks are harder. More short tracks, and even one or two more road courses need to be on the schedule. That, and more unique medium-length tracks like Darlington. *cough* The Rock *cough*

 

[Relly]

Sorry if some of these have been repeated but here we go...

1. Less companion races between Cup and NNS/CWTS. I can tolerate it every once and a while but I miss the days of the NNS being at tracks like Nashville (both tracks), Pikes Peak, Milwaukee, Memphis, Gateway IRP, Mytle Beach, SoBo, even though some of these tracks are out dated I'd like to see NASCAR have the lower divisions go back to these places.

2. More diversity of tracks. Lets stop going to Michigan, Pocono, Dover and Kansas twice a year, I know the owners of these tracks would never let go of a race at these places, but it's my wishlist and I'm putting what ever I want.

3. More road courses. Move Sears Point to the Chase and add Road America and Montreal to the regular season schedule.

4. Begin the season with the Daytona 500 and end the season with the 400 miler, move Homestead elsewhere. This is another that will probably never happen, but I can wish.

5. Change the qualifying format. I'd like to see qualifying in a practice format where they get an hour or hour and a half to make as many laps as they want and adjust the car (w/some restrictions)...so basically qualifying would be in the format of practice, this would add some excitement to qualifying IMO. Except Daytona & Talladega, leave quals. alone there so no cars can draft.

6. Get rid of the top 35 rule. Go back to the old days where the top 37 got in on time and the rest was set by provisionals and if you were out of provisionals the you're out of luck, and ditch the past champions rule, its sad for me to see Terry Labonte whore himself out to FAS Lane Racing 4 times a year just b/c he's gaurenteed a spot.

7. Go back to a few years ago to where whoever was carrying the Sprint Cup races also does the NNS races.

8. If the top 35 rule is not changed and my "practice style qualifying" is not implemented, in the event of a rain-out carve out a half hour or so for the guy's outside the top 35 to go out and get a qualifying run in, and ditch this "most attempts" bs.