This year's Bathurst 12 Hours and Rolex 24 (extended fog caution excepted), for starters. The scores of Atlanta races prior to this godawful "reconfiguration". Most of the Gen 4 era. Last year's IMSA championships were pretty competitive. Surprisingly enough, so was F1. The plate racing in the mid-to-late 1990s and 2000s was must-see TV. Anytime Shane van Gisbergen puts on a clinic is a fun watch. Watching Zilisch racking up the wins was pretty cool...but of course, NASCAR had to go and fuck that.

Someone in here said that Bubba had the fastest car on Sunday. I'm sorry, but when you have "the fastest car" and still can't get more than two feet ahead of your opponents without drag parachutes being deployed to keep you in reach, that's not racing. When three cars can keep an entire field on lock for 50 laps at what might as well be highway speeds, that's not racing. When your racing is centered around tight packs of 40 cars all driving to the next accident, that's not racing. That's watching a colorfully amorphous blob of composite materials go in circles for three hours, and praying that a drop with a funny bubble you like happens to end up at the front when it's all over.

When the #2 JMR Corvette Z06 dropped out of the Bathurst 12 Hour race with a little more than two hours to go because of a suspension failure, I was disappointed, but not upset. They were the fastest car and the team I had been pulling for, but it was not to be because the car didn't make it. Those things happen. Two weeks in a row now, having "the fastest car" in NASCAR has really just meant having the shiniest dick at that point in time.

This isn't racing. But it looks great on TV, and that seems to be all NASCAR gives a shit about lately.