As a response to Forensic's blog about the new car looking eerily similar to the cars used in the Australian V8 Supercar series, I thought I might share with you guys (and girls) another idea NASCAR might want to consider borrowing from us; a new rule.

Now I know what you're thinking, "there's too many freaking rules and no consistancy...the last thing we need is another rule, Tez!" and, ordinarily, you'd be spot on.

However, this ain't no ordinary rule that got introduced at the last round held in Darwin. No, this rule put the V8 Supercar series on the map as the only sport where the competitors are allowed to criticise the officials (and fellow competitors) without getting a fine or a points deduction.

Oh, so you're interested now are you? Think that sounds pretty good huh?

Well, allow me to clarify it then.

Before the first race on the Saturday (the V8's have rounds, consisting of 2 or 3 races as opposed to a single race on the Sunday), the head honchos of the series dragged all the teams behind semi-closed doors (some of the media were allowed in) and told everyone that they were going to drop the shackles they had felt for years, namely fear of being charged with bringing the sport into disrepute, and that they were allowed to speak their minds freely and frequently.

It took all of four corners into the first race before we got the pleasure of seeing this rule come into effect.

Mark Winterbottom got turned around by Will Davison and collected Russell Ingall (the 2005 series Champion. His nickname is 'The Enforcer' and he's never been backwards in coming forwards...Tony Stewart reminds me a lot of him actually) in the process. Ingall slammed both drivers, saying things like; "They can't drive, what are they thinking on lap one?" and "If this is where the sport's future is, we're all in deep trouble."

Suddenly, we had a completely new angle to look at the V8's from and the headlines became; "The Gloves Come Off!" and "The Old Guard verses the Young Guns!"

We had fresh excitement back in the series...and it added a whole new (and ####y) dimension to the racing since you knew that the drivers weren't going to hold back anymore when a microphone got shoved in their face after crashing out.

Now, let's compare that to NASCAR. All the talk about how boring the drivers are starting to become and how refreshing it is whenever Tony (or Kyle Busch) say what's on their minds...and they usually wind up apologising to everyone and being fined, all for saying the things that we, the fans, were probably shouting at the TV (and at the track) not a few minutes earlier.

If you have doubts, just imagine what Denny Hamlin might have said had he been given free reign after being wrecked by Tony at Daytona a couple races ago...mmm, I thought you'd see things my way.

So I'm telling you, if NASCAR want to copy the Aussie V8's, go ahead...just make sure you take this rule too as I reckon it'll win a truckload of points with the fans.