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Ron,
We watch Nascar all year long and they ran that car at Talladega in the fall. The whole race was pretty much everybody staying in line and no passing going on. Whenever someone tried something it resulted in failure/wreck. The winner was the one who made the least mistakes. Not really racing to me. It was more of a parade than before. I like what they are trying to do with the car and safety, but Nascar is not doing it the right way IMO. There was an obvious problem with the foam in the door catching fire. Nascar denied the problem and blamed it on the teams until it got to a point where the fire was so bad that "non-flammable" foam was completely burnt up to do something about it. Every time a team tries to find something to improve the car, they are slapped with fines and penalties. What you are left with is a whole field of cars that go the same speed and don't handle very well (comparatively speaking). They really need to either allow the teams to make changes to the car, that still fit within the templates, or they need to open up the restricter plates to allow the cars to use the power plant differences from team to team.
That being said, I will still watch, but a few years ago, I did not miss a race and was bummed if I had to. Now I have gotten to the point of "oh well" if I miss one.
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