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That about sums it up Redneck.
In the 25+ years since I started watching televised races I've seen things change so dramatically.At the two big tracks its gone from wideopen full speed racing,then to the freight-train racing in the early days of plate racing and now to Nascar micro-managing everything the teams can and can't do so that now 43 cars run around a 2.5(.66) mile tracks in a tight little pack awaiting the "big one".
Talledega was specifically built for these guys to turn 200+mph laps. Most of today's fans have never seen a stock car turn a 200+mph lap and for that matter probably didn't even know these cars are capable of those speeds.
That being said if these cars were allowed to run as they did before in the pre-plate days they would go so fast as to be undrivable simply because of the aerodynamics of today's modern body designs.
I too would love to see the restrictor plate go.There must be some type of package that would allow this to happen.There's always been talk of a smaller carb in combination with an aero package/handling setup that would allow these cars to stick to the track and still allow everyone to be competative.
One thing I miss from the old days about racing in general is that some of what is considered cheating today was smart thinking back in the day.When a crew chief could figure out something the other couldn't it was the differance between winning and not winning.
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