Nascar just doesn't seem the same this season.

utfantilidie · 04-11-2008, 08:21 PM

This season just seems weird to me. All the top drivers are struggling (sorta) and Edwards just keeps on winning.He's not a bad driver but there are several better.

doozer · 04-11-2008, 08:23 PM

things will pick up after Talladega. after next weekend, the next off week i believe is either before or after the Brickyard.

volfanbill · 04-11-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by doozer

things will pick up after Talladega. after next weekend, the next off week i believe is either before or after the Brickyard.

yet another reason i'm upset with NASCAR. Laugh at me if you want, but at heart I'm a momma's boy and Momma's day is supposed to be spent with momma. Not driving around in circles.

doozer · 04-11-2008, 08:30 PM

that's why they made Darlington a night race.

but i'm with you. bump the schedule up a weekend and take Mother's Day weekend off.

volfanbill · 04-11-2008, 08:39 PM

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that's why they made Darlington a night race.

but i'm with you. bump the schedule up a weekend and take Mother's Day weekend off.

didn't realize it was now a sat night race. Shows how little I've paid attention. At least they can make it wherever Sunday to see mom then.

Why do they get next weekend off? I don't understand getting Easter weekend off now this weekend and not another for so long? Why not stretch it out, Easter, Mother's Day, Sometime in June/July, the one final week off in Septemeber or something like that?

doozer · 04-11-2008, 08:41 PM

honestly, i have no answer.

the NASCAR schedule has baffled me for years.

rbroyles · 04-11-2008, 08:59 PM

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honestly, i have no answer.

the NASCAR schedule has baffled me for years.

Like Bristol in early March? Also why have so many long hauls together, i.e. Vegas, Texas, Phoenix, California. It is not like they can stay out there, they have to drive back & forth each time, plus the time spent flying the team members. I would think it would be better to spread the long hauls through out the schedule.

McLovin · 04-11-2008, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by utfantilidie

This season just seems weird to me. All the top drivers are struggling (sorta) and Edwards just keeps on winning.He's not a bad driver but there are several better.

You must be a Jeff Gordon fan. This year is great for me.
We have competition and some parity.
Last season was the worst Nascar season ever for me.

rbroyles · 04-11-2008, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by utfantilidie

This season just seems weird to me. All the top drivers are struggling (sorta) and Edwards just keeps on winning.He's not a bad driver but there are several better.

He isn't winning because he is a so-so driver either. There are not too many with more talent IMO. He has four teamates with equal equipment (supposedly), and they're not winning yet. One of the measuring sticks of talent is how a driver fares in comparison with his own team drivers. Just as Kyle Busch is the faster of JGR cars.

doozer · 04-11-2008, 09:12 PM

Edwards has won at least 4 COT races i can think of off the top of my head. he's doing something right.

doozer · 04-11-2008, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by rbroyles

Like Bristol in early March? Also why have so many long hauls together, i.e. Vegas, Texas, Phoenix, California. It is not like they can stay out there, they have to drive back & forth each time, plus the time spent flying the team members. I would think it would be better to spread the long hauls through out the schedule.

that has got to be a logistical nightmare. i couldn't even begin to describe all the issues i could think of for making that work.

**la.lovesorange** · 04-11-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by volfanbill

yet another reason i'm upset with NASCAR. Laugh at me if you want, but at heart I'm a momma's boy and Momma's day is supposed to be spent with momma. Not driving around in circles.

Well, I am a momma and my birthday is on the 7th of May so going to Darlington is my mothers day/bday present!! LOL I spend it with my hubby and my 2 little girls and we have a great Mothers Day weekend.

rbroyles · 04-11-2008, 09:30 PM

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Edwards has won at least 4 COT races i can think of off the top of my head. he's doing something right.

He has won 3 this year already, out of 7! At that rate he would win 15.43 races this year if he maintains the avg. How you win .43 of a race is beyond me.

doozer · 04-11-2008, 09:42 PM

15 races would be ridiculously impressive.

volfanbill · 04-11-2008, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by rbroyles

Like Bristol in early March? Also why have so many long hauls together, i.e. Vegas, Texas, Phoenix, California. It is not like they can stay out there, they have to drive back & forth each time, plus the time spent flying the team members. I would think it would be better to spread the long hauls through out the schedule.

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that has got to be a logistical nightmare. i couldn't even begin to describe all the issues i could think of for making that work.

I'm not sure it's all that tough. At least before the COT is wasn't. They used to have different cars at all the tracks and I remember hearing Benny Parsons talk about how the hauler would be on it's way to Vegas on Sunday during the California race and what not. I'm sure the driver and crew just hop on a plane and fly into Charlotte (or wherever their homebase is) Sunday night/Monday morning and then back out wherever they need to get. Sucks for the haulers as I guess they only get to see the race the drive in the car for, but I'm sure the money balances it all out.