yeah it does. You just didn't read it (or want to admit it)
Video one. Is of a crash AFTER the field fell behind the pace car, and has nothing to do with racing back to the caution. Emergency personnel are never on the track during a race back to the caution.
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How is that working out? Yes NASCAR did everything but put up signs reading "Your kind not welcome" towards it traditional fan base. And picked up, well, nobody else.
Answer this... why doesn't Indycar race at Daytona? That is why there are the HP limits on NASCAR now. There are limits. When AJ Foyt says 'no way!' you know there are issues.
You know the best part of about the Indycar Texas race was how the racing was so tight, so close... and there was no need to race to the checker as half the field crashed out behind them. It was racing first, not bumper car.
But it isn't the 1990s anymore. There are more options to watch than stock cars running in ovals/triovals. It is what makes Indy interesting though, because the low-banked curves and the squared oval make things different. Of course, assuming the tires aren't shredding to pieces because of the pavement.
It is all of it. e.
Because IndyCar cars would go too fast. This has NOTHING to do with NASCAR cars being "functionally obsolete".
Because IndyCar doesn't have the G-W-C gimmick, because racing back to the caution has never been a part of American Open Wheel Championship racing. Unlike NASCAR, where it was the essence of what American stock car racing is all about.
That is the lead excuse that all of the France family's enablers use. Pretty much "it was a fad". Nope. While, yes, there are more choices today, and thus the audience (for anything) is going to be less (unless its spelled NFL) every sport, sans the new sport of MMA, is about where it was relative to all the others, in 1995, or 2005, or 2015. ONE exception. ONE sport has declined relative to all the others. ONE has driven off two of three people who formerly watched it closely. NASCAR. This sport is in trouble. Mainly because the Frances will not admit their mistakes.
Or in light of that, they'd need to restrict the engines... making the race utterly stupid (which is what I mean by obsolete). Which is what NASCAR has been for a while. When cars can't be competitive, it gets real stupid, race car driving wise of course. I realize many NASCAR fans aren't race car fans.
What? I thought the essence of NASCAR was about driving modified vehicles real fast around a track, which used to be real cool. It was loud and exciting. These days, they aren't "stock" cars. And the differences between the cars are too small... relative to the size of the car, which leads to so many ridiculous crashes, because cars need to drive so close to the car in front of them, they can scratch the nose of the driver two cars up!
Stock cars should be able to race without crashing repeatedly at the end of races.
Indycar finished under Yellow at Texas, and that race had segments that consisted of intense racing, close passing... and most of all... competent driving.
Well, there is Daytona, maybe Talladega... if it would ever finish clean. What other races are "marquee"?
None of them, any more. Another function of the idiotic "playoffs". Before the idiocy that is the "playoffs", NASCAR has multiple measures of having a good year. The Winston Cup was certainly one, but also the most wins, and wins in the historic and/or important races, like Daytona, Talladega, Indy, Bristol night, Southern 500 at Darlington, Coca-Cola World 600 at Charlotte.
