Hasn't Bri-Bri tweaked enough already? There have been so many changes since 2003 that its impossible to make any sort of historical comparisons anymore.

I just don't understand this instant gratification world we live in any more, I guess.

Where is it written that we must be blessed with a thrilling down to the wire Championship fight every year? What made 1992 so special was that it occurred naturally, it wasn't manufactured.

Every year since 2004 the Chase was shown to be the joke that it is, so instead of admitting their mistake, NASCAR tweaked it further, and turned it to even more of joke, which brought further tweaks which brought us to where we are. A winner take the whole season in the last race scenario, but only, they don't have to win, just finish better than the 3 other drivers they are up against in that 1 race. Several times in the Chase era, the season long points battle ended up being more interesting than the Chase points battle, really with 2011 being the only outlier

NASCAR has lost sight of the fact that racing is NOT a stick and ball sport. In stick and ball sports Team A plays Team B, Team C plays Team D (etc) for however many games their regular season is, then based on their seeding in the conference, league (etc), play each other again,winner goes on, loser goes home not to be seen again until next year.

Racing is about (insert relevant field size here) drivers getting together and racing each and every round from the season opener until the last race, wherever that may be. The Championship is just one very large race in and of itself, each individual race figuratively being a single "lap" in that very long race. Whoever has the most points at the end of that very long race, wins. That's the way it should be-every race is important in and of itself.



People who love to argue against me like to say "Well I guess you don't like football very much then, do you?"

They couldn't be any more wrong, I love NFL football, for different reasons. Their road to the championship fits their game. This whole Chase concept, including its latest iteration which is truly a farce, just doesn't fit what racing is.

Case in point-I just finished a Chase "simulation" for this year,something I have done every year since 2008 and it usually comes close if not spot on every year. My simulation is very simplistic. I take the spring race at all the chase tracks and use the finishing order and just plug them in to the 8 tracks that the chase race will be the second race of the year. For Chicago and Homestead I use the finishing order from last years races there. Once the 10,12,now 16 Chase drivers are finalized at Richmond I just plug in their finishes and voila, simulation complete.


Have you watched TV lately and seen how every major outlet is wringing their hands about how Jimmie Johnson is toast and what's wrong with him? The simulation shows he will EASILY make the final 4. Jeff Gordon will be there,and so will Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch. I hate to base a whole championship sim on LAST years race, but a 7th place finish by Kyle Busch wins him the 2014 Farce according to it. It was ok to do when it was just one of the 10 Chase races for using as part of the sim so I'm not predicting that he wins the whole thing, but I do stand by the sims prediction of the Final 4...so what does that mean? You decide that.

What tweak would I like to see? I'd like them to tweak the whole Chase concept into the nearest garbage can and make each race 1/36th of the season, and then implement a points system similar to the FIA 25 down to 1 for the top 10 which makes winning more important, and makes an 11th place finish just as irrelevant as a 43rd place finish. Then, if someone is running away with it, too bad, the other teams will have to man up and claw to make it better next year. Put it back on the teams to make us happy with a close finish, and stop trying to manufacture excitement. Every attempt NASCAR has made at manufacturing that excitement so far has had that WWE feel to it.