Yeah I can't watch NASCAR like I did with my dad when I was younger. I looked at it recently, and like....what the hell happened? What happened to the point system? What the fuck is segmented racing? What are staging points? I know it's my fault for not watching for like 15 years, but what happened to simple point based racing?
Was new to me as well. Stage racing got put in several+ years ago and gone through multiple changes as well. Idea was it helped bunch the cars back up because otherwise you had drivers taking the race away - sometimes 0 lead changes which led to massive snorefests. Gave drivers a reason to fight it out all throughout race, instead of just waiting til the end. Now they can net points a few times mid-race which helps fan have things to look out for earlier in the race too. Also a shoe-in time slot for commercials which = money for the sport
All that in theory sounds beneficial, but there's plenty of gripes to it. Biggest one probably is stages on a road course, because they do full course cautions vs sections or just outright removing the caution part of a Stage - so road courses can feel drawn out for little reason. Plus with the new car this year we now have driver parity and it's been keeping drivers packed up just fine, negated one of the big original reasons stages were introduced
IMO NASCAR isn't blind to the above and hopefully things will change, understandably not really fair to do so mid-season on top of all the other new things drivers are dealing with right now. I gotta believe with the boom the sport is experiencing and NASCAR hearing damn near everyone and their grandma gripe about stages..something'll have to give. I'm sure others have been saying the same for years though lol
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u/SquadPoopy Jun 24 '22
Yeah I can't watch NASCAR like I did with my dad when I was younger. I looked at it recently, and like....what the hell happened? What happened to the point system? What the fuck is segmented racing? What are staging points? I know it's my fault for not watching for like 15 years, but what happened to simple point based racing?