Atlanta

I missed it but glad to hear this.

I still miss the old Atlanta track.  It was so unique, what was it, 2/3 of it was curve?  Demanding, a challenge, different!  Now another Speedway Motorsports Cookie Cutter.  Oh well.

Not sure about what races you been watching.  Seems like Toyota has been right up there in the domination department!

I remember late 90's.....Rusty Wallace had changed from Pontiac to Ford.  Which left Pontiac with a bunch of also rans.  After a couple of years, Pontiac hadn't won a race.  Now if you like or hate Rusty is irrelevant, fact is he won races.  So going into The Winston All Star weekend, Pontiac had cried so hard about the rules, they got a big rule change that could be practiced for 2 weeks since the Coke 600 was at Charlotte the weekend following The Winston.  Rusty rankled a lot of feathers when he called the rule change ridiculous and stated he would lap the field if he got to drive a car with those rules.  Everybody cried BS, so his team built a Lincoln Mark VIII that resembled the rules a Pontiac could be built to, and he was tearing up the track pretty much proving his claim.  He did not race the car obviously, as it was not Nascar licensed/ sanctioned whatever. 

Ya Hud, there's that.  I guess it isn't so bad when they change rules from year to year.  It's when they change rules mid season that ticks me off.  Obviously, someone can take the rules package and be fast, so get to work and come up with a way to beat them rather than crying about it.  This doesn't happen so much anymore, with the pretty much "everyone-drives-the-same-car" chassis and body rules there are now. Er.....as I understand it.  Been out of interest of it form over 10 years now.

jaybmiller wrote: re: you still have to be the best to win not really.. according to the 'math' you can take the crown and not ever win one race. I don't watch anymore cept the last 10 laps,cause the 'stage ' racing ,is, well, silly and childish, probably 'sponser' driven. As far as I'm concerned ,drop the green,race 200-250 laps, and see who grabs the checkered flag.

Edited by Tbone95 - 25 Feb 2019 at 12:14pm

I know that.  That's not what I asked.

I don’t think the France family likes Ford much. I really think they don’t like Jack Roush oh oh and I don’t think they like Jeremy Mayfield. That stunk up nascar more to me than anything.
As far as being good to win well I ain’t buying that. Michael Waltrip could win in a DEI car and run 37th in anything else.
I was a dirt tracker for years. In 2012 I was racing for a points championship at NWA Speedway. The other guy and I were neck and neck all season. He drew a smaller number than I 12 weeks in a row. I got a good idea how racing works.

   Pretty sure NASCAR is anti Ford, pro Chevy. They banned big blocks after the hemi Fords and Dodges were killing the chevies. When the T-bird arrived and became the most dominant car ever, the only reason chevy won is because nascar handicapped the Fords. I remember mid season one race the chevies got to lower their cars one inch Ford had to raise theirs one inch and the next race Ford finished first, second, third, Hotrod had the article about the race on the second to last page. After that they started messing with the spoilers till chevie caught up.

The whole restrictor plate deal was to keep the superior high flowing boss Ford heads from reaching their potential. With no restrictors at full rpm and bigger cams the chevies couldn't compete. Did you notice Dodge dropped out because their small block head wasn't that good and nascar could care less. As Engine Masters magazine and their engine competition have written the hemi and the boss heads are the best ever designed for a passenger car.
The new chevie and Toyota heads are excellent heads but they are race inspired.
Toyota never made a pushrod engine till they designed one entirely for NASCAR,baffeled by that one. Stock car,yep.

Yep the old run what ya brung days. I remember an interview with Lee Petty years ago. He said, they would drive their race car to Sears, buy 4 tires on Friday, race Sat or Sunday and go back to Sears next Friday and get new set of tires free, under the milage warentee. Sure don't do that today.

any one think they can drive a foot from each other at 200 mph for 3 or 4 hours in a 100 degree car and not crash or just get lapped ?