After watching the multi-groove Bristol race Saturday night, I couldn't be more dissappointed with the new configuration. It's not that I want to see wrecks, it's far from that; However, I do like to see tough racing like we all grew up with in Saturday night specials at your local bull ring. Bristol was the one track that always had those beginning traits of NASCAR built into it's personality.
The track looks like a shorter Dover and might even be worse than that. The long green runs made Bristol look like a cookie cutter mile and half track. In this age when they have made most of the tracks look the same, they have vanillafied the circuit. Long gone are the great side by side races at Rockingham, Bristol, and even Darlington has only one date.
This week coming up should be the Southern 500, but instead we'll get a three-quarters full California Speedway that seats 80,000 on a nice wide open cookie cutter track. For some reason that is the price we all pay as the sport grows huge Nationally.
I'm sure the drivers all like the new tracks because they aren't as demanding, but at some point NASCAR/ISC and SMI should get together with some fans and find out what they like. Apparently, the fact that the fans spend millions upon millions on their sponsors products like no other sport and hundreds for a single ticket doesn't grasp their attention as it once did 20 years ago.
Well put!I do however think the racing could be more exciting at Bristol if we we werent chasing the chase.Chase time rolls around and the racing gets boring, everones happy with a top ten finish
and frankly that puts me to sleep!
I didn't think this race was that bad. There was some action on the track through out the pack when ESPN would show it between the commercials. Sadly the coverage was certainly lame by ESPN.
Photo, True, it wasn't all that bad, But it surely wasn't a night Bristol race. It wasn't the race I look forward to once a year. It wasn't the race worthy of fetching top dollar as the greatest NASCAR experience on the circuit.
It was a watered down version of Bristol in my opinion.
I just don't get the attraction of Bristol. Too many cars on too small of a track. I think I understand the spectacle of 160,000 fans in a stadium, surrounding a small track on which 43 stock cars attempt to race. But as far as the racing itself, ... I just don't get it.
If you want to get the same thrills you get out of a Bristol type "race" in far shorter a period of time, with little loss in total entertainment value, check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm32 G_jbQlI&NR=1
I just watched it three times in a row, and have three more hours in my life to do other equally enjoyable things than I would have had I watched another Bristol race.
It was long green flag racing due to the Goodyear tire, They brought a very hard tire due to new track and not knowing how the tires will hold up. They made sure at least the winner of the race was good driving and not because of tires blowing.
Now they know and can bring a softer trie next time, and we will see even better racing.
