http://www.thesportsguru.com/Blog/2007/02/16/as-popularity-rises-nascar-needs-to-be-careful/ Random Thoughts of a Sports Junkee Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:41:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.thesportsguru.com/Blog/2007/02/16/as-popularity-rises-nascar-needs-to-be-careful/#comment-11061 gurusmom Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:32:43 +0000 http://www.thesportsguru.com/Blog/2007/02/16/as-popularity-rises-nascar-needs-to-be-careful/#comment-11061 As for the cheating, beginning at Bristol and some other tracks, including Taladaga, the "Car of Tomorrow" will hit the track. The specs do not have the "gray areas" that the cars of today have. Fixed wing instead of the spoilers, front air dams, and rigid specs on the building of the frame, firewall location and many other Gray areas that exist today will not exist. The problem for the fans is that when the cars all become "equal".........we as fans will be watching an "IROC Race". Racing was much better in the 60's, 70's and 80's without restrictor plates and all the regulations they have today. Drivers won races by laps...not 100ths of a second and the fans loved it! Yes the cheating happened....thats engineering! As for the cheating, beginning at Bristol and some other tracks, including Taladaga, the “Car of Tomorrow” will hit the track. The specs do not have the “gray areas” that the cars of today have. Fixed wing instead of the spoilers, front air dams, and rigid specs on the building of the frame, firewall location and many other Gray areas that exist today will not exist. The problem for the fans is that when the cars all become “equal”………we as fans will be watching an “IROC Race”. Racing was much better in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s without restrictor plates and all the regulations they have today. Drivers won races by laps…not 100ths of a second and the fans loved it! Yes the cheating happened….thats engineering!

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