I've seen a lot of these posts, but let's keep it clear. This flawed and gimmicky points system has existed for 20+ years, and even if the most illegitimate driver like Joey Logano wins the championship, but no matter if we even try brainwashing the executives in NASCAR, the playoffs won't go away.

My petition is for the mods in this subreddit to delete any posts about playoff fixes, because they're getting too overused and they won't help with anything

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Call me a cynic, but given how plate tracks (I still call Daytona and Talladega that - sue me) have gone these past few years, I was genuinely expecting this race to have at least 3 attempts at a green-white-checkered in order to stir up some drama, but instead we got a genuinely exciting finish where the drivers finally found the balance between aggression and discipline that guys like Jeff, Jimmie, Junior, and Smoke had back in the glory days. I'd love it if more races end up like this going forwards because if they do, there might just be hope for all the rich, entitled little brats coming into the sport yet.

HYAK looked very impressive for the first half of the season, with RSJ having some fast cars. Since Michigan however, they’ve only mustered one top 20 finish, that being their sixth place finish at Atlanta.

What does the future of HYAK and Ricky Stenhouse Jr look like?

Photos from my adventure at Daytona, since I was six coming here as far back as 2008 when I was kid I’ve absolutely love this place and look forward to many many more years of jointing everyone for races.

For those who don’t know whether or not to go to Daytona, I promise you it’s worth every single moment

The only major move was Buescher moving into the top ten due to Bowman and Wallace's early bad luck in terms of season long driver average.

And now some quick stats for the regular season:

Top Five Driver Averages Compared to Team Average:

Tyler Reddick +16.6

William Byron +10.16

Bubba Wallace +8.87

Ryan Blaney +8.82

Ross Chastain +7.77

Bottom Five Driver Averages Compared to Team Average:

Justin Haley -7.98

Josh Berry -8.01

Alex Bowman -9.17

Ty Gibbs -10.75

Riley Herbst -25.47

Top Five Driver Averages Compared to Manufacturer Average:

William Byron +28.4

Ryan Blaney +25.11

Kyle Larson +19.57

Joey Logano +18.74

Chris Buescher +16.01

Bottom Five Driver Averages Compared to Manufacturer Average:

Cole Custer -17.3

Ricky Stenhouse Jr -17.98

Ty Dillon -18.44

Riley Herbst -29.56

Cody Ware -30.25

I can’t help but feel like the truly talented drivers get ignored these days. NASCAR has turned into nothing but corporations looking for moving billboards. They don’t care about the guys with raw skill, scraping together every dime just to run a stock car at the local short track.

Instead, they sign the mid-skill rich kids. Why? Because it’s cheaper. Sponsors don’t want to risk funding someone who could lose everything after one bad wreck. A rich kid doesn’t have that problem—their family bankrolls it, and the sponsor still gets their advertising space without footing the bill.

It’s sad to watch what the sport has become. Maybe it sounds cliché, but honestly… NASCAR died with Dale Earnhardt.

What do you all think? Has NASCAR lost its heart, or is this just the reality of modern motorsports?

After an touch with Thiago Camilo in lap 1, Rubens leaded the whole race and was crowned Nascar Brasil "Brazilian Champion", now he leads the standings to the Overall Championship with 3 rounds left, one of them being race in Curvelo Oval.

This year has been a strange year to watch Kyle Larson's overall season, with how much he has struggled on road courses this year, yet how much he has improved at superspeedways, given his reputation of never finishing well there.

Getting three stage wins, two top 5's, three top 10 tens, and a worst finish of only 20th at the Daytona 500 and averaging 35 points scored per race, while on the road courses he's averaged less then 10 points a race and has an average finish of 31th, all despite winning 2 of the 5 road courses last year.

What are your thoughts? Will he ever will a superspeedway, for some reason he has improved vastly in being able to give good pushes and save fuel for pit strategy.

Everyone’s been very cool so far. Can’t wait for the race.

I think NBC is doing a great job at putting emphasis on the spotters. From showing TJ Majors spotting, to Coleman Presleys spotting. Its great detail and thoughts put into it

They were anticipating it on air and it happened. I'm not sure why his lane in particular but it left him out to dry and he fell all the way back. I don't know if the other lanes were faster but I did hear something about if Larson took the risk to move over he had his teammates behind him to help.

Would he advance?

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