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Boomer The Cannon posted:NASCAR 2017: Grab 'Em By The Plates Nailed it.
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L_Harrison posted:We're gonna have the best racing, just the best racing. You're gonna be tired of all our racing. No one will have better racing than us. Tremendous racing. All stadiums will be packed bigly.
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Jan 13, 2017 04:26
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How big are Jimmie Johnson's hands?
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I'm curious to see what exactly they roll out, especially if it's beyond (educated guess) heat races, a regular season champion with a first-round bye, and maybe double-points races. It could be good if they execute it righahahahahahahahahaha, I almost got through that. Maybe they'll add ramps for the TOTALLY FUCKIN' GNARLY, BRO dynamic? Peanut President posted:Somehow I never knew that Rico Abreu was a little person. I saw a cardboard cutout of him at Eldora and I swore for a moment it was really him. It was really well done and I'd never seen a cutout of a little person.
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I have no faith they'll implement anything worthwhile, but I'll probably still watch though instead of bitching about safety now I'll probably root for someone to get killed instead
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Whatever the changes are. Hope you guys are ready to see Jimmy Win another new format.
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He's gonna go on a tear and get the first round bye and then people will bitch about how they rigged the format, completely missing the point that the 48 team races in such a way as to provide the maximum chance to win the Cup
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Seizure Meat posted:I have no faith they'll implement anything worthwhile, but I'll probably still watch Who are you and what have you done with Viking Skull
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In one of the NASCAR Facebook groups found a screencap of some of 2017 rule changes with nascars logo on it. 48 total races, 24 are regular distance races, and 24 doubleheaders at the other remaining 12 weekends. Daytona 500, Coke 600, Brickyard 400, Southern 500, and Homestead count for double points. I'd like to know why homestead would count for double points when the championship is decided on where they finish, besides the point for the 30 others racing for points if there is one. I'm fine with it though wonder if tracks and NASCAR have planned accordingly with cup races with the rest of the weekends races such as tickets and so forth.
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... does that mean the Chase is gone? It's dumb, but not as dumb as the Chase, and lol at double points races since that was received so well in Indycar and F1. Some people are calling the leak fake, so whatever.
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It's tough to say if it's real or not. As for the chase, that's what I was thinking but couldn't see them giving it up so easily. E: Gluck got word it's fake. So probably something real stupid is coming instead. BMB5150 fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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BMB5150 posted:In one of the NASCAR Facebook groups found a screencap of some of 2017 rule changes with nascars logo on it. I hope that's real. Maybe if the races are only ~250 miles each it could help deal with the main problem of the racing, which is everyone just hangs out for the middle 80% of the race waiting for the finish.
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I hope one of the new rules is the drivers have to spin around a baseball bat until they get dizzy whenever they pit.
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Peanut President posted:I hope that's real. Maybe if the races are only ~250 miles each it could help deal with the main problem of the racing, which is everyone just hangs out for the middle 80% of the race waiting for the finish. yeah agreed
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L_Harrison posted:... does that mean the Chase is gone? It's dumb, but not as dumb as the Chase, and lol at double points races since that was received so well in Indycar and F1. NASCAR abandoning the Chase would perhaps be the most stunning and improbable thing to happen under Brian France's leadership, but the rest of the now-debunked graphic is sort of what I was expecting out of this.
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Watch the reaction be so overwhelmingly popular that NASCAR pulls a Springtime for Hitler and implements some random fake rule changes someone found on the reverse side of some piss-fetish short story on the Internet.
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BMB5150 posted:In one of the NASCAR Facebook groups found a screencap of some of 2017 rule changes with nascars logo on it. This makes too much sense to be real.
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Thought about that too and here's my guess: the graphic's real. I'd also add to the Facebook group's thoughts this way: First, the double points thing really feels like getting rid of the Chase, especially by including the finale. I can't think of another way that would make sense (assuming it's real). Second, by my count, 12 tracks last year had two Cup dates. Thus, I predict the second date at those tracks will be converted to dual races so it's not the same event over again. The tracks with 1 date and the one race at the two-date tracks will still have the same format (24 races). This is all Monster can do because the schedule is already set; they can only change what fans will see. I think Monster will try this in 2017 in preparation for re-organizing the schedule and/or trying new race formats in 2018. Again, they're restricted by NASCAR to what tracks they can use, but I would think they would at least attempt to push the boundaries of their new power, perhaps shortening the schedule (like Winston did when they signed in 1972). I also think this sea-change in the sport was anticipated by Brian Scott and especially Carl, which is why they retired.
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LASTCAR posted:I also think this sea-change in the sport was anticipated by Brian Scott and especially Carl, which is why they retired. Carl perhaps, but I don't think Brian could spell cat if you spotted him the C and the A.
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The Brickyard 400 counting for double points is so absolutely dumb that I'm assuming its real
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NASCAR is never going to stop trying to make the final race always be the title decider. If it's between double points and the Chase, I'd take double points every time.
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CactusWeasle posted:The Brickyard 400 counting for double points is so absolutely dumb that I'm assuming its real More points than people in the stands
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LASTCAR posted:Thought about that too and here's my guess: the graphic's real. I'd also add to the Facebook group's thoughts this way: The more I think about it, the more I feel like it's the attitude so commonly seen in NASCAR, whether it be from the sanctioning body, a driver, or team: "No, no, that's not true at all! Where did you hear such a thing, we never said anything like that Greg Biffle may have factored this in, too. I can't believe he'd rather have no ride than a ride at Roush unless the winds of change were quietly known.
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*Bitches about too many races and gimmicky schedules* *Goes to watch Tony Stewart run 90-100 dirt races across various sanctioning bodies*
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Boomer The Cannon posted:*Bitches about too many races and gimmicky schedules* please dont doxx me
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CactusWeasle posted:The Brickyard 400 counting for double points is so absolutely dumb that I'm assuming its real It used to be an awesome event. Historic track, an embrace of short track heroes like Gordon, Stewart, mixed in with the popularity of the sport from the 80's until about 2008. Plus you had IRP mix in some short track events during the week AND an IROC race with the stars of auto racing in one of the best markets for auto racing. Then NASCAR hosed with this. Put races in Chicago, Kentucky/Cincy, and then just turned the thing into a watered down event. It's just another event now. Like pretty much every other race on the Cup schedule. Even Bristol, Daytona and Talladega have devolved into "meh" events because winning those doesn't mean near as much as winning a race at Kansas for "The Chase". The idea of doing "double points" isn't a horrible idea, but it's one I feel is almost too late to implement in some ways. NASCAR would have benefited from doing this with "The Winston Million"/"No Bull 5" races plus Old Atlanta (for the title) back in the day to make those events "must watch". Kinda in the same manner that Golf makes it's various "opens" must watches even to people who don't regularly follow golf.
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This all sounds very interesting except we should all know by now that points don't matter. We should really be concentrating on double wins.
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FuzzySkinner posted:It used to be an awesome event. They started running Indy in like 199x which is when NASCAR started getting dumb.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Please make the NASCAR 2017 thread with just this as the OP, in fact I will do that if nobody else will NASCAR 2017 - This is fine.
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Peanut President posted:They started running Indy in like 199x which is when NASCAR started getting dumb. 1992 they announced they were doing it, and all the "Robin Miller" types" were throwing shade at CART for not running more  s1994.was the first year, and it was a success up until 2008. The aforementioned Miller has a good piece on it: http://www.indianapolismonthly.com/features/running-on-empty-the-brickyard-400-problems/
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NASCAR 2017 - Who stole my dip can
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If there are doubleheaders, they sure as poo poo better offer some sort of combo pack or make it one ticket. Charge people $280 for two 200 milers at Daytona in July and the stands are going to be even emptier than they were last year.
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Norns posted:Whatever the changes are. Hope you guys are ready to see Jimmy Win another new format. kidcoelacanth posted:If that format gets rid of the Chase then I am 1000% behind it If the rumored championship format is in any way a reflection of NASCAR taking the Chase out back and shooting it to make it more difficult for Jimmie Johnson to win a title, I applaud NASCAR AND Jimmie for it. NASCAR giving Labor Day back to Darlington and reverting to a championship determined over 36 races with Brian France at the helm is just  Jimmie having to win a championship over 36 races for once will actually be entertaining.
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wicka posted:Can't wait until Jimmie clinches the title with three races left. Literally fine with this if it's not with the chase Boy I hate the chase
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