From
where I sit it looks like NASCAR is getting desperate...
The
latest changes to the championship are pathetic. It's only cheapening the sport. It
now means one driver can win every race on the schedule, but if he
has a poor showing at Miami in November he doesn't win the title.
That's just dumb. Is this a race or not? The point of having races
on different courses picking up points is to find out who the best
driver is over the year, not just who gets all the breaks in the last
race. What happens if there's a massive wreck and the 4 drivers are
unable to continue? Or the teams have to work to get the cars back
on the track? We could end up having 4 beat up cars limping around
the edge of the track engaging in a battle for 35th, all
to win the championship. The point of car racing isn't to crate a
'game 7' style finish to the season. Each race is it's own 'game 7'.
That's the point. It's a winner-take-all event, following a weekend
of battle. If there's a tight case to the championship, great. If
there's not, so be it. If it wasn't like that, there wouldn't be the
celebration you see after every race at any level. This is just a
stupid gimmick and cheapens the entire sport.
At
least that's how I see it...and I sit in the cheap seats.
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