well I am NOT a fan of Jimminy Johnson nor Chad , however, they are doing what racers do, exploiting the rule book to their advantage,, its RACING , thats what you do..
However, if the points chase was as it was, Jiminy cricket and his band of sanitized do gooders would not have 7 championships,, and Jeff Gordon would have 6 or more,,
alas, it is what it is and NASCAR believes they are doing what they need to promote the sport. I do find it very sad though to see all the empty seats.. and I dont mean a few, you look in the background at most of the races and you see areas of grandstands covered with big banners pretending to be advertising and what they are really doing is covering empty seats....
I hate to say but live attendance is dwindling,, well maybe dwindling is to strong a word, but its sure past its prime. Now that all the cars look the same, they have sanitized the drivers behavior to a point that no one is a bad boy anymore, hell they even got Kyle Busch to behave,, Smoke is retiring,, its all a bunch of pretty boys now and I miss the rough and tumble of what it used to be. The last cars I really liked were prior to the Lumina bodies coming in. But then what is NASCAR supposed to do , there are no cars that fit the rules anymore,,
I am glad they protect the drivers as well as they do,,, well mostly,, lol