Re: bigger fields in cup?
- From: "John&Michelle" <jcreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:21:48 CST
Bring back the "consi", aka the "hooligan" or "last chance" race.
Give the tail-enders and part-timers a chance to get some TV time - 'cuz
there'll be highlights!
And would'nt you rather watch "Highlights from this morning's wild last
chance race! Morgan Shepard trades paint by the gallon with Johnny Sauter
for the final spot!" It'd sure beat another learned discussion of the
provisional system..........
"John McCoy" <igopogo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No articles for a couple of days, which either means we're all
tired or the mod-bot is borked. Anyway, in the spirit of providing
a subject for discussion...
Should the starting field be increased in Cup racing? This year
there are 38 teams running the entire season, and 10 or 12 part
time (intentionally or otherwise) teams. With the entry of the
Toyota teams next year, there quite likely could be 42 to 46
serious full-season teams. Throw in the usual collection of
decent part-timers and there's a pretty good likelyhood of one
or more teams with major sponsorship going home each week.
One solution to that would be to increase the starting field
from 43 to something like 46 or 48. That way there's enough
room that the "good" cars should be able to time in each week,
and the Copes, Chaffins, and Skinners would still have a spot
or two to fight over.
Most of the tracks have enough room for this (in the early
days they started 70+ at Darlington, and more than 60 at
Daytona for the first couple of speedway races). But fitting
that many cars into Bristol or Martinsville could be a problem,
and some of the bigger tracks (Dover, the road courses, maybe
Loudon) don't have the pit road space for that many cars.
My thinking is increasing the field size would be a mistake.
What I would do, if it were my choice to make, is have a 44
car field at the bigger tracks (because I prefer the symmetry
of 2 car rows), and 38 at the shorter tracks (any track that
can't provide 44 full-sized pit stalls). That would send
good cars home, but that's the risk you take in motor racing;
if the sponsor's unhappy tell them to pony up the dollars for
a better driver or a better race team.
John
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