Nascar Wishlist

[celticfang]

Mine is simple really

1. Different series run on different tracks at the same weekend.

E.g. Trucks in Vegas

N'Wide in Kentucky

Cup in Darlington

This would stop N'widewhackers from filling up the series.

Also for the point about cigarette/alcohol advertizing, F1 may have banned it in the EU, however Ferrari (for instance) still gets a ton of money off of Phillip Morris for branding. Somehow I can't see NASCAR or society kicking junk food out just yet, sixty years ago smoking was not just socially acceptable, it was promoted as healthy.

EDIT: Okay a few more

First off, As has been said many times over, NO top 35 rule at all, bring back the two days of qualifying but have it like so:

Day 1: Spots 1-20
Day 2: Spots 21-40
41-43 reserved for provisionals.

Bring back IROC but have it visit each type of track (road course, short track, speedway, superspeedway at Daytona obviously) and get drivers from every discipline, Indycar, NASCAR, off road, ALMS, Grand Am (I remember in 1998 Vasser and Little Al ran for CART while Buddy Lazier raced for the IRL so it can be done)

Bring back announcers who know what they are on about.

 

[Markfan]

Have a night time road course race.

Unless the road course in question is a new one that is smaller than Watkins Glen, a nighttime road course race would be both dangerous and ridiculously expensive to add lights to.

 

[tipptruck]

Unless the road course in question is a new one that is smaller than Watkins Glen, a nighttime road course race would be both dangerous and ridiculously expensive to add lights to.

Well other then cost it is a really bad idea. The only courses that can handle night races are in the middle east and a temp street course in Asia. Daytona would be the only one that could work. They would have to bring in lights for the road course. As the oval has plenty of lights. It would still cost a lot to light up the 1.5 mile or so road course.

 

[tmohoffmann09]

talladega in night that would be the best race of the season

 

[Cheeze]

Bring back announcers who know what they are on about.

^ More of this.

Benny Parsons, Ned Jarrett, and Ken Squire were all very knowledgeable and could keep the broadcast interesting and informative, even if the racing was not so exciting.

They also weren't corny as hell.

 

[Cynon]

I know there's already a team car limit, but Stewart's bunch is basically another Hendrick team (ditto Baldwin and Phoenix) and Petty is another de facto Roush team.

How I'd fix this may be a bit confusing if you're not much of a math person.

Car count for Cup should be

C = 3((E[1]) + (E[2]) + ... + (E[N-1]) + (E[N]))

Where:
3 = Limit of cars per team, which I set to 3.
C = Cars on the grid
N = Number of manufacturers.
E[X] = Number of engine suppliers for a manufacturer (Ex. Chevy has Hendrick, Childress... probably a more... Ford only has Roush... Dodge would have Penske and Ernie Elliott, Toyota only TRD as far as I know). The value of X differentiates each manufacturer. For anyone who knows a thing or two about math, treat E[X] as EsubX.

Say you have four manufacturers, A, B, C, and D. A has engine suppliers 1 2 and 3. B only has 4, C has 5 and 6, and D has 7, 8, 9, and 10.

You get...

3(3 + 1 + 2 + 4)

Which results in...

9 + 3 + 6 + 12 = 30.

I chose 3 cars per team instead of 4 to sort of get rid of one thing I hate; underachieving at the top level.

 

[tipptruck]

So you would want a 30 car grid right. I do not thank NASCAR could last long with that theory. They need the field fillers to help with the purse and other stuff. Even though you think that petty shr mean nothing. They mean a lot to NASCAR. They also mean a lot of jobs for people. Just think about a big wreck at tally on lap 20. You would have to watch a race with about 10 cars left for 160 or so laps. Now that would be a boring race.

 

[K.Chuck]

You might be over thinking that one just a bit.

 

[tipptruck]

You might be over thinking that one just a bit.

who me or the guy above.

 

[K.Chuck]

I should of quoted him. I ment cynon not you tipptruck.

 

[celticfang]

^ More of this.

Benny Parsons, Ned Jarrett, and Ken Squire were all very knowledgeable and could keep the broadcast interesting and informative, even if the racing was not so exciting.

They also weren't corny as hell.

Sam Posey, extremely knowledgable, it's sad to see his health decline, he's pretty much a walking encyclopedia on racing (as is Chris Economacki another fave of mine), both did NASCAR in the 70s-late 80s

Also Benny/Ned/Ken as you said (also it is Squier).

I don't think there's announcers like that employed any more though.

 

[Cynon]

I should of quoted him. I ment cynon not you tipptruck.

I thought of that in about 5 minutes. It took longer to type than it did to devise.

So you would want a 30 car grid right. I do not thank NASCAR could last long with that theory. They need the field fillers to help with the purse and other stuff. Even though you think that petty shr mean nothing. They mean a lot to NASCAR. They also mean a lot of jobs for people. Just think about a big wreck at tally on lap 20. You would have to watch a race with about 10 cars left for 160 or so laps. Now that would be a boring race.

The grid is overflowing with cars as it is, and you have too many cars that are essentially the same. Stewart-Haas and Phoenix are essentially Hendrick Motorsports teams, and all of the Fords are essentially one giant team of approximately 10 cars. That's two organizations that make up roughly half the field. That's pitiful. Not even the IRL in 1996 was that bad.

As it stands, NASCAR races are filled with spec cars, what I have proposed will discourage people from using the exact same cars that other teams are using. It will benefit people like Robby Gordon, who didn't use the same engines as Penske, and teams that try to make more things in-house or secure deals with new manufacturers.

Talladega races are boring as hell anyway, a big wreck early on that would leave 10 cars left might be interesting for its own sake. The Busch race in 2002 where Shane Hmiel wrecked the whole field was interesting because of who was left in the race. Three good cars (that put on an ACTUAL RACE until Herman blew up) and a few of the trashmobiles... hell, Tim Fedewa was running a start and park car, ran it to the finish and came home in the top 5!