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Reduce the banking! Of course, you can't do that, so we'll just have to live with the restrictor plates.
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Of course they can do that. It isn't going to be cheap, but nor were the 51 cars talladega gobbled up in under 24 hours. Can you put a price on a life as well? NASCAR has the money.
"I hope that's a wake-up call for someone. It scares everybody. We've warned them that they were going to kill somebody ... and then they did. And we're still doing the same thing." Crew Chief Jimmy Makar
Talladega and Daytona pull in the highest ratings. Talladega this past weekend pulled in a 7. Second highest only to Daytona. Who owns those tracks... Bill France (NASCAR). The same people that make the rules are the wons reaping the windfall of money every time someone sneezes and takes out half the field. NASCAR has the $$$ to make that sort of change, they just don't want to ruin a good thing for their wallets.
If it's so good for TV ratings, then NASCAR should just cut the spoilers off all the cars so we can have a big wreck every week," Bobby Hamilton
The plates make all the cars so equal and dependant on each other they travel in massive packs. So you say take the plates off right? Sure they will have to slow going into the turns, but I am guessing they will be pulling 230-235 down the straights. Sound a bit high? Remember that Elliot ran a lap of 212 MPH before they plated the cars. Also remember that Bobby Allisons career was ended when he blew a rear tire all alone on the track and his car turned into an airplane. Imagine what would happen should one of those cars get sideways at 230.
So yeah, tear the banks down, make it a handling track, leave the plates on if you have to. But without the banks, cars will spread out by nature of how well they make it through the turns.
They need to do something before someone or some group of people are killed. Again, and again and again.
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