Thread: Throwin' a race?

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I'm thinking the same thing! But now no-one will be so obvious or mention it over the radio when it happens.

So does this mean anytime we have a single car spinout, NASCAR is gonna watch the replay and rule weather it's intentional? What happens when a guy simply overdrives the car into the corner? Or a car is crazy loose and snaps out from under a driver?? How are they gonna police this mess?!?!

Mike, I threw a race one time and burnt up the bearings too !

Well, that's 'cause you didn't throw it hard enough!!! Or maybe it was to hard??? I don't remember!

Originally Posted by 34_40

I'm thinking the same thing! But now no-one will be so obvious or mention it over the radio when it happens.

So does this mean anytime we have a single car spinout, NASCAR is gonna watch the replay and rule weather it's intentional? What happens when a guy simply overdrives the car into the corner? Or a car is crazy loose and snaps out from under a driver?? How are they gonna police this mess?!?!

I think NASCAR might have opened a can of worms that they'll soon wish they would have just left alone!!! In their efforts to improve racing, they've become a bit too heavy handed and continually try to make objective decisions about subjective actions!!!! Dang, what's next??? They'll decide one of the over the wall guys intentionally dropped a lug nut and allowed a car to gain a position on them?? IMO, Mike Hilton is trying to micro manage every aspect of a race! So they go on making all these decisions about what a driver did and why he did it, and meanwhile you can go out on the track and do a bump and run on another car and they call that good racing???

Racing is racing, it's time to let the driver's drive the car, and let the Crew Chief's and Engineers do their creative engineering! It shouldn't be the job of the sanctioning body to control every aspect of a race, and because of this determine the race's outcome!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I think NASCAR might have opened a can of worms that they'll soon wish they would have just left alone!!! IMO, Mike Hilton is trying to micro manage every aspect of a race! So they go on making all these decisions about what a driver did and why he did it, and meanwhile you can go out on the track and do a bump and run on another car and they call that good racing???

I couldn't have said it any better!!

Bump and run, yes, as long as they do not wreck. Helton said in one of the meetings that intentionally wrecking someone will not be allowed.

So maybe just go up and "rattle their cages"?

Yeah, and that's my point!!! A bump and run affects the outcome of a race much more then a one car intentional spinout! Usually a bump and run involves two or three other cars that weren't even part of the bump!!!! If NASCAR would back off and let the driver's police themselves the dirty driving would be far less then it is now! No big deal to pay a fine and lose a few points, but when half a dozen other driver's are going to make sure the "favors" are returned in kind a driver gets the message quickly! Being an ex-circle burner, a bump and run is nothing more then a case of the bumper getting up to the next car and running out of talent in how to make a clean pass! This weeks bump and run guy would probably be next weeks bumpee, and possibly a bump right out of the ballpark!!!! Never took more then one or two payback bumps to teach the offender that clean passes are the preferred method to get around another car! Helton's bs of NASCAR deciding what's intentional and what's not is just more bs----if you're not the one in the car you will never know if it was intentional or not! The view from the stands is a whole lot different then the view from the driver's seat!