NASCAR (over) Rules...

[Brett Barrow]

You weren't even two years old at that time.

We've already established that fact. Still, if anyone remembers that as the day 5 Oldsmobiles lapped the field, please speak up!

[Harry P.]

And all baseball players have to use a bat of a single basic design. The particulars are left up to the individual. They can't go up there with a cricket bat or a tennis racket!

The baseball analogy might not be a good apples-to-apples analogy, but it wasn't me that brought up the example of baseball bats.

You get my point regarding NASCAR. I know you do.

[Brett Barrow]

The baseball analogy might not be a good apples-to-apples analogy, but you get my point regarding NASCAR. I know you do.

I do. NASCAR is for all intents and purposes a spec-class series. For better or for worse, they want it that way. My point is that it's been that way for longer than most would think, and it was that way at the height of its popularity.

[johnbuzzed]

The first NASCAR race broadcast live flag-to-flag was the 1979 Daytona 500. Everybody remembers that Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison got together on the last lap and Richard Petty beat Darrell Waltrip and AJ Foyt back to the line and the Allisons and Yarborough got into a fist fight. I can close my eyes and see it. I can remember the sponsors on the cars. I can't for the life of me remember what make of car any of them were driving, I had to look it up. Oldsmobiles. All 5 of them, the only 5 cars on the lead lap at the time of the crash. Olds had the superior car that day, but does anybody say "Hey remember 1979 when those 5 Olds lapped the field at Daytona?".

Not many people discuss the fact that Hudson was the car of champions back in the '50s, either. It's rather ironic how some of the championship manufacturers have disppeared from the market.

It would be nice if spectators would be able to determine what kind of car was being driven by whom without consulting a reference guide. Remember when you could actually recognize the Mercurys, Plymouths, Dodges, etc? Today, without the banner or logo on the front of the car, who knows what it is?

[bbowser]

I do. NASCAR is for all intents and purposes a spec-class series. For better or for worse, they want it that way. My point is that it's been that way for longer than most would think, and it was that way at the height of its popularity.

Brett is correct, it's been moving in that direction since the 60's. Basically IROC now with faux headlight and grill stickers. I still like it though. For me it's much more interesting than F1 where the winner is basically decided in the first turn of the first lap, barring a pit disaster.

[Harry P.]

Not many people discuss the fact that Hudson was the car of champions back in the '50s, either. It's rather ironic how some of the championship manufacturers have disppeared from the market.

It would be nice if spectators would be able to determine what kind of car was being driven by whom without consulting a reference guide. Remember when you could actually recognize the Mercurys, Plymouths, Dodges, etc? Today, without the banner or logo on the front of the car, who knows what it is?

Yep, that's what I've been talking about!

But unfortunately, those days are gone.