If it's anything like the oval racing scene in the UK, it's better to own a track and run it down (maybe even let it run minor events that draw no spectators of note but keep the big crowd draws away from it) than sell it and have someone else buy it, make a success of it and potentially become a rival to you in the long term

We are witnessing the pussification of NASCAR

We are witnessing the pussification of NASCAR

You know the only way to make plate racing safer?

Not saying NASCAR is ever going to do this, or even should do it, but it feels like if they took the plates off, they'd have a few more single car blowovers where the car dissapates energy by barrel rolling down the backstraight (or in this zero grass era, just blowing over onto its roof and staying there) and a hell of a lot less big ones

They put on the plates to slow the cars down to prevent blowovers. I get that, a barrell roll in a 80s/90s car must've been a scary prospect.
But now the cars are freaking tanks, a flip isn't gonna do anything to a car with a strong roll bar and the earnheardt bar and all that safety stuff
The only risk these days is getting twatted when upside down.

And it's not like pack racing and pack crashing doesn't send cars upside down in other ways too, so if they stopped pack racing, there'd be no chance of Newman style crashes where cars get hit in the air.

But NASCAR is long past its addiction to pack racing these days. Weaning it off of it is impossible, there'd be no other racing left.

Oh, and fucking penalise blocking already.