NASCAR finally embracing changes in its flawed system
Finally, NASCAR has also decided to grow up and change some of its flawed rules. After following these erroneous rules in the championship and being insisted by all the race fans time and again, the series’ organizers are expected to announce some major
changes in its championship system later today (Thursday).
In 2009, Kyle Busch, one of the best racers in the series ever, bagged victory in four of the first 26 races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup division. However, owing to the season's championship criteria he wasn't able to compete in it. Similarly, Jamie McMurray,
the winner of the two most demanding and popular races of the season, Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400, last year also did not get a chance to compete for the season's final championship owing to lesser points.
In 2009 and 2010, when the list of eligible drivers was revealed, it was sad to see many of the drivers who won lesser races than Busch and McMurray in the respective seasons were there in it, while winners like these two were missed out. The list is currently
designed on the basis of aggregate points of the early races rather than the number of victories.
As the world sees it, racing is all about winning. When a race fan comes to see an event he comes to see a winner. For the race lovers, the winner is the hero and everyone else on the track is a loser. At the end of the day, it is sad to see a winner out
of the final championship while many losers still having place in it.
However, NASCAR has finally decided to move forward for the next season with reforms in its old flawed system. Some reports say that rather than taking the top 12 drivers to the championship round for the final chase of the title, NASCAR will be taking the
top 10 drivers from the standings, while two will be picked on the basis of the most victories.
The NASCAR management is scheduled to hold an important meeting today, where the change is expected to be announced. However, at the same time some are not very happy with this ‘yet to be announced change’. They believe that a driver, who has performed consistently
all through the first 26 races, has more right to enter in the final championship than someone who impressed everyone in a round or two and then disappeared.
All this really shows that NASCAR still has a long way to go and it needs to move the wheel of change as fast as the wheel of its cars move.
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