Anybody have any thoughts on the Sprint Cup-Daytona " "warm up" race last night? My 2cents... NASCAR will continue the spiral downward if that's the best "racing" that can be gotten from the new (wait for it... the media termed) 6th-Gen car. Not the sport I grew up watching.

Nascar is finished, they are on the same level as WWF pro wrestling lets make the rules up as we go.

Cannot believe the current champion did not have a guaranteed spot in the field???

9Steelman wrote:Cannot believe the current champion did not have a guaranteed spot in the field???

I had the same thought last night when the champ had to sit it out. The term "brain trust" is an oxymoron in NASCAR!

mountaineerman wrote:Nascar is finished, they are on the same level as WWF pro wrestling lets make the rules up as we go.

I have never watched either to any great extent, though one picks up names and such, especially living in the south. When WWE came out admitting to their wrestling being faked they did so knowing they would lose a few fans, but most would not care, or even hear the announcement. To them not being regulated as boxing is in most states was far more important than being a "real" sport. I think NASCAR may be thinking the same. Changing rules mid-year is not how sports work in most folk's view. And NASCAR loses some fans I am sure when they do stuff like that, but I doubt most of their base cares as much or more about wrecks and such and not so much the rules, and for NASCAR their money is not in being a "real" sport, but providing entertainment wrapped in a few layers of sportsmanship so one can cover NASCAR on the sports page for the free publicity. Both of your examples are following the money, even if that means moving away from being a sport, if they ever were.