COMPETITION... TO THE VERY LAST FOOT OF THE RACE! Even better, it wasn't just competition for the win, it was competition among EVERYONE on the lead lap!
When a race is won by 8/1,000ths of a second, that's something to see.... unless you blink of course.
Chicagoland Speedway has hosted several finishes that have been measured in thousandths of seconds and I hope NASCAR is taking a look.
Don't get me wrong.. I KNOW there are MAJOR DIFFERENCES between the cars.. and the audiences for that fact, but here are the other facts.
On the final 8 laps, there were several cars fighting it out out for the first few spots... AND there were twice as many cars fighting it out for twice as may spots just behind the lead pack.
They drove 3-wide around the track for MANY laps at a time...
They have a button they can push in the IRL called an 'overtake' button that gives them an extra boost of power... Everybody gets the same number of pushes per race and it's as integral to strategy as winning pit strategy!
Again.... Technically, VERY DIFFERENT cars.... but for all the knocks that the IRL has taken over the years for 'the split', it seems that the reunion (at least at this race) is giving a lot of competitive racing for the fans of MANY racers to be excited about.
Can you imagine a 10 lap, end of race green flag run in NASCAR (at any track other than Daytona and Talladega) and ending up with 16 cars within a second of each other, fighting up to 3 wide ALL THE WAY AROUND THE TRACK?
Now THAT would be a sight to see! It'd be a heck of a lot more exciting for a lot more people whose drivers would have a greater chance at something more than a few more parade laps in a car that sometimes seems to stick to the track as good as a used post-it note.
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