It has to be this ^^^way..or NASCAR would have never stuck around this long.
If I owned Nascar, I'd could only dream of growing it as big as it is...The France family built this monster, it's their baby. I say good job!
In the last four years, the races have gotten boring thanks to a fat, poorly handling universal car. The TV coverage is unwatchable, especially Fox's portion of the season. I don't give two fawks about their gopher, and the shine is completely off DW's shtick.
And that doesn't even touch on the bullshit capricious calls they make. Case in point: this Clint Bowyer mess. Bowyer's car doesn't meet post-race specs. The team says it's probably because the tow truck bent the rear sheetmetal pushing the car into victory lane, or maybe from one of the other cars bumping him during or after the race. Two sides to every story, two plausible explanations.
But NASCAR has a problem -- Bowyer's putting JJ's fourth-straight championship on the line. NASCAR's ratings are down, race attendance is down, they need something exciting to get people in. So they penalize the shit out of Bowyer and his team, taking away enough points to make it unlikely if not impossible to win the championship. NASCAR says Bowyer can appeal the call, but at this point in the season, a setback like that is terminal, whether you get the decision reversed or not.
Well, we can ask ourselves, maybe it would be the same if JJ was in the same boat that Bowyer's in now. But we already know the answer to that, because JJ got a slap on the wrist two years ago for the same problem -- right rear sheetmetal out of spec.
If NASCAR was serious about having a level playing field, they'd inspect the cars before and after the race. Before to check for possible violations, then after to make sure everything stayed where it was supposed to be.
But NASCAR's no better than WWE. It's a soap opera for guys. There's some great racing from time to time, but it's overshadowed by all the bullshit drama and story lines they invent to suck people in every week.
