... Tony Stewart and Chevrolet are meant to be together and Ryan Newman is way better than he ever showed at Penske
... Yes, Kyle Busch CAN put a race car pretty much he darn well wants to and where few would think about doing it first
... Pre-Determined segment lengths where 'position counts' in each one really do make for some great racing
... Integrating the pit crews into the competition adds another level of excitement
... The Speed Channel does racing REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY well
... Seeing 20 cars MISS Jeff Gordon within about 1.3 seconds at well over 150 mph prooves that these guys are absolutely incredible drivers
YEAH, those were some of the positive things that I saw... but there were some negative ones as well.. or actually 1 REALLY negative one that scares me about next week's 600...
In Segment #3, with just 20 laps of racing, by the end of the segment the field was separated by almost a half a track.... And this SCARES THE HECK OUT OF ME that the follow-up to an incredible weekend of racing that probably made lots of highlight reels and could actually attract NEW EYES to the sport will probably end up being a race that is more like a lot of long drawn out parade laps.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NASCAR... do something to figure out how to make the racing as exciting at D-Shaped Ovals as it was at Richmond and Darlington (on shorter tracks) and at the All Star Race last night... This may be my opinion only, but the answer to increasing excitement at those cookie cutters may indeed be more segmented racing.... but I'm just a 'Fan of Fast'... what do I know!
Feel free to leave your comments below on what you liked and didn't like about the AllStar Race and what you think the 600 will end up being.
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I am also worried that the 600 will become a race of 180mph parade laps with very few on the lead lap. Let’s just hope that those few who stay up front will mix it up all night, or this could be one large snoozefest.
ReplyDeleteI have to be careful what I say about the “D” shape ovals, Kansas Speedway is the track I go to the most. It may be interesting to segment out a few of the cookie cutter races to see what happens. Give the teams a format something like the All-Star race with a few breaks in between to work on the cars. Better yet, that would give the networks 10 whole min. that they could run commercials and we would never see one during the race. :)
-Taglia
Love the idea of TV timeouts Taglia!!!
ReplyDeleteI just hope and pray this edition of the 600 miler doesn't come down to fuel mileage.....
*fingers crossed*