Nascar needs better playoffs?

Question

How about two 30 car circuits! Thats 60 drivers racing every Sunday! Busch series should be Busch drivers only and the minor league for Nascar. At the end of the year you take the top 15 from each circuit and let them race for the championship! Will this work?

Answer 1

Good for you for thinking outside the box, but I see a few things wrong with that proposal. First of all, people want to see all their favorite drivers race against each other. If, say, Tony Stewart was racing in one division, and Jeff Gordon in another, people wouldn't be interested. Secondly, if the Busch series were for Busch drivers only, and the minor league for NASCAR, there would be no way to size the drivers up against Cup drivers, and they would stay in Busch (Nationwide) forever, which is against the original intent of the Busch series. Plus, that way, there would be no differentiating between Busch and ARCA, and both series would lose. But, please, keep on thinking like you are, and come up with some good proposals. These are always great conversation starters!

Answer 2

I agree with the Busch series. It's hurting that series having "ringers" from the NASCAR series racing down there. Everybody makes comparisons to other sports vs. NASCAR. How about this comparison? There is no other sport that allows players to play in both the "minor leagues" and the "major leagues" simultaneously, why allow it in NASCAR?

If a driver is good enough to race in the cup series, he shouldn't be allowed to race in any of the other series, period. If he proves he's not good enough for the cup series, he could race in the other series until he's "ready", and then removed from the other series to race NASCAR.

As for the 30 car circuits... I'm not for it, but then again, I kind of like the chase.

Answer 3

The old saying "if it aint broke, don't fix it" is real shallow thinking, that I never understood. When it comes to building a race car, how can you even make it a race car if you don't modify it? How can you improve on anything if you don't modify it? People who seriously think that's a motto to live by, turn me off, because I just figure they're not intelligent enough to make something better, or are afraid of change. As far as NASCAR needing better "playoffs", NASCAR doesn't even have playoffs. It's an accumulation of points between several races, to determine who is the better driver/team for the season. The system works good enough for me. They race enough races to prove who is the strongest competitor for the season. Obviously the person asking this question just wants people to agree with his statement, but I don't think they realize the scope of racing as a sport. In old school street racing one race could determine the new champion. NASCAR is way more civil giving the driver/team multiple chances to accumulate his championship. So I don't think NASCAR needs any type of playoff situation, and keep it basically the way it is. If anyone doesn't make the chase, or win the championship. They have a whole new season to prove their abilities. Either they're for real or they just fall in behind the leader.

Answer 4

Anything could work!!!--But is just like everything else your not going to please everyone. I say go back to the Old Points system In Cup and limit the amount of races cup drivers can run in Busch Series--Kinda like the testing Limits--All the cup drivers are doing by running in the Busch series is practice for the Sunday Cup Race!!!!

Answer 5

The problem with two circuts is this: the top owners and drivers are making too much money for things to change.

For the sake of argument, lets say that Hendrick, RCR, DEI, and Gibbs are the best teams in NASCAR. Now, you take those teams, and split them up. Hendrick and RCR goes to one series, and DEI and Gibbs goes to another. This would mean half the vewing audience for the sponcers.

Budweiser pays 24 million dollars to have their name on a car, but they would not pay that money if they knew only half the people were watching. Without sponcer money, races would be boring. It's a good idea on paper, but ultimately, it would fail.

Answer 6

If you pulled all the Busch Wackers out of Busch.... You probably wouldn't have enough car's to fill the rest of the field..
The top 35 in owner pts. and sponcership is preventing that !!
What sponcer,in their right mind,is going to give a driver / owner $150,000.00 to go to Talladega,to qualify 8th !! and NOT make the race !!! IT'S BS..

Answer 7

that is completely a good question. the perfect answer is that NASCAR isn't a good in good structure for a unmarried eliminating format. Do you extremely choose a guy to get eradicated from the championship because of an engine failure, or because between the bozos motives a damage he occurs to get stuck up in in the course of the first race of the Chase? that is the reason baseball, basketball and hockey do no longer use a unmarried eliminating format, yet a extra robust of 5 or seven. It facilitates the perfect motive force as an instance his skills over a sufficient era of time, and eliminates a freak twist of destiny or decrease tire from determining the champion.

Answer 8

That wouldn't work because how would you determine who would race against who? I think that the current chase system makes the last few races more exciting. However, the old system worked OK, and am still trying to figure out why NASCAR changed it. Their motto used to be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", I guess they no longer feel that way.

Answer 9

its a racing series not a ball game. Understand the two are freaking different

Answer 10

I say that they also race dirt tracks again...Thats were it all started...May be a beach cruise at daytona!!!!Yeah right...I like your idea...Can we throw away the chase and restricter plates also!!!!!!!!