NASCAR Testing?

[redneck24]

Originally Posted by striperman36

Take a look at the car of the future on the site! 1.25" plate
I really don't like plate racing, even with the aero package it just is too restricting

absolutely, it is also very dangerous, regardless of what nascar says. in my opinion, they should let them go, it would be a far better race, just ask bill elliot they say it is for the safety of the fans, one accident back in the day, and now they think everyone that is in the stands is at risk. that stays true at all tracks, anything can happen at any track at any speed! nascar has catered itself to all the jr. loving newbies for the past few years ( not knocking jr., just making a point) and has started the sport into a drain-like whirlpool decline with all these rule changes, and taking racing out of racing if dale sr. was still around, half of this crap wouldnt be happening. i wish the veterans would stand up instead of rolling with this crap, and try to make a change. i know nothing is going to change, nascar has become a huge business just like any other sport, they dont care about the sport anymore, only money. i guess we older fans just have to suck it up and enjoy what it is.

[basswipe]

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.

[Clogston29]

As someone who's only been following NASCAR for about 4 years, I can tell you that even in that amount of time I have seen a lot of changes that, to me, don't seam to be for the better. They're trying to hard to make a prim and propper, sponsor appealing, non threatening sport out of it in the name of money. Most drivers today are nothing but sponsor suck ups and its gotten to point that it seams more important to have the image that a sponsor wants than being able to drive (Stremme in the Coors Light car for example ). We need some drivers that go against the grain alittle (a few more hillbillies and rednecks woudn't hurt either) and have some personality (I miss Jimmie Spensor) or the sport will continue to get more and more boring until it goes the way of Indy cars. When it gets to the point that there are 43 brian vickers and jimmie johnson types (sorry luds48 but if I hear him thank the employee owners at Lowes one more time . . . ) on the track, I'm done watching. As far as restrictor plates go, why not just make less aerodynamic cars with smaller engines or heavier cars for the current plate races - the trucks don't use plates and they're races are usually good. OK, thats my rant for today.