Talladega Disappointment
Nov. 2nd, 2009 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryThere's so much blame to be placed with the racing at Talladega. I'll try to keep this brief.
1. NASCAR - Switch to engines small enough that you will remove the restrictor plate. All the power in the world is moot when you have to have your pedal to the floor for a lap and a half to get to full speed and there's nothing you can do to pass because everyone always has their pedals to the floor. I would also like to see some of the aerodynamics fucked with so cars don't cut through the air quite as well. No, it is harder to get more exiting than seeing 40 cars in a 3-wide pack. HOWEVER, a whole race like that is freakin' dangerous! Allow the cars to get some space between them. I miss a trend from the mid 90's where there was a good-sized front pack, a large middle pack, and then a straggler pack. NASCAR will have to give up the ghost on packing everyone together or they're going to see most of the field continue to be knocked out in more than one wreck per race or drivers will just give up and line up in a train.
2. Mike Helton - WTF with morning announcements that basically completely screw over what people can do on the track? Decide on these rules before final practice, you idiot!
3. Drivers - Not all of them fit into one or more of these categories, but many folks do: A) Don't pitch a fit and say "I'm just going to stay in line all day," B) stop bumping folks in the corners, C) don't let you crew chief talk you into a fuel strategy at Talladega; there WILL be a wreck near the end of the race to use up the last of your fuel before the checkered flag waves.
4. Talladega - It's probably worthwhile paving over most of the grass in the infield. Make it possible for cars to escape wrecks by driving through there. Also, invest in a study to see if graduated banking can be incorporated to smooth out the transition from the corner banking to the apron. Too many times, a car at the bottom has bumped against the apron and been bounced up the track to the outside wall.
1. NASCAR - Switch to engines small enough that you will remove the restrictor plate. All the power in the world is moot when you have to have your pedal to the floor for a lap and a half to get to full speed and there's nothing you can do to pass because everyone always has their pedals to the floor. I would also like to see some of the aerodynamics fucked with so cars don't cut through the air quite as well. No, it is harder to get more exiting than seeing 40 cars in a 3-wide pack. HOWEVER, a whole race like that is freakin' dangerous! Allow the cars to get some space between them. I miss a trend from the mid 90's where there was a good-sized front pack, a large middle pack, and then a straggler pack. NASCAR will have to give up the ghost on packing everyone together or they're going to see most of the field continue to be knocked out in more than one wreck per race or drivers will just give up and line up in a train.
2. Mike Helton - WTF with morning announcements that basically completely screw over what people can do on the track? Decide on these rules before final practice, you idiot!
3. Drivers - Not all of them fit into one or more of these categories, but many folks do: A) Don't pitch a fit and say "I'm just going to stay in line all day," B) stop bumping folks in the corners, C) don't let you crew chief talk you into a fuel strategy at Talladega; there WILL be a wreck near the end of the race to use up the last of your fuel before the checkered flag waves.
4. Talladega - It's probably worthwhile paving over most of the grass in the infield. Make it possible for cars to escape wrecks by driving through there. Also, invest in a study to see if graduated banking can be incorporated to smooth out the transition from the corner banking to the apron. Too many times, a car at the bottom has bumped against the apron and been bounced up the track to the outside wall.
