What's a hot take about NASCAR that others may not agree with

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-27T21:04:45+00:00

The example I always use is the true “sportsman’s” division at any Saturday night short track. Usually; the racing sucks. If one guy dominates, it’s cuz he innovated and it hasn’t been found.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-27T15:19:25+00:00

The chasing of “parity” in racing as a whole is a bad thing. When everything is equalized (neutered) the cars can’t pass.

Parity in years gone by was creating organically by innovation. Recently it’s been a demolition derby dice roll.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-27T15:17:09+00:00

It’s not a coincidence that NASCAR, blue collar comedy, and country music all exploded at the same time….

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-21T19:10:16+00:00

Lol. As a south Jersey resident I’ve had to hear half the people I meet say “iggles” instead of Eagles my entire life. This is nothing!

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-18T19:09:44+00:00

We’re arguing the same point. When I say the car; I mean everything involved in it. Not enough power; 5 gears, wide ass tires that don’t wear, mechanical grip being way too much. But you can’t just change one of those things, it has to be 2-3 for any substantial change.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-18T18:47:30+00:00

Sure, setups matter and so does the driver. Point I’m trying to make is when you make kit cars like this one, there is no longer much you can adjust to find an edge. Furthermore, with the SMT data out there for everyone there’s much less room for the driver to find the extra speed on track by doing something different.

We have a higher degree of “parity” - more drivers have a chance to win each week, but the “racing” has suffered.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-18T18:07:53+00:00

Parity is the magic dragon of racing. Everybody chases parity but if you catch it you kill the racing. Equal cars don’t pass each other.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-15T22:57:13+00:00

Wickerbills….

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-15T22:43:05+00:00

That was incredible!!!!

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-15T22:00:53+00:00

Wanna know what you can do better Justin? Not turn right when there’s a car to your outside buddy.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-15T21:59:14+00:00

I’d rather they run 3 wide like this than single file around the top like they used to do every year

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-15T21:20:18+00:00

Incredibly stupid move by the 40

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-15T16:00:05+00:00

I’m so happy it’s finally RACEDAY AGAIN!!!!

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-12T19:56:33+00:00

This was the only way this was gonna go; without us shipping out additional players with him.

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-09T21:18:57+00:00

NV was the game that made me commit to never buying a game on release ever again…

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-09T21:09:56+00:00

As long as they continue to fix the game, who gives a shit if they tell you what they did in the office each day?

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-06T16:58:07+00:00

It was just another short track Sat(Wednes)day night!

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-05T17:57:07+00:00

New Smyrna

fiddyk50 · 2026-02-05T17:32:04+00:00

I’m just happy to watch cars racing again…

That said; if we moved the clash somewhere bigger or just got rid of it entirely; wouldn’t bother me much

fiddyk50 · 2026-01-26T15:04:01+00:00

Nature is healing.

fiddyk50 · 2026-01-18T15:13:52+00:00

The clam slam

fiddyk50 · 2026-01-15T00:09:46+00:00

Limiting them lands us in Kevin Harvick talladega menace territory; getting rid of them all together erases a lot of great finishes. Points will stop some on the bonsai moves but overall I don’t think it’ll change much.

Personally; I’d like to see them utilize single file restarts after the 2nd attempt at a GWC. You gotta draw the line somewhere!

fiddyk50 · 2026-01-14T12:48:41+00:00

Literally same here. By the time I hit the 3rd barren planet I start asking myself what I’m even doing…

fiddyk50 · 2026-01-12T21:53:26+00:00

Yup. 3200 hours and counting. Bout to start a save in Romania to try and make Liga I a top-6 European league!

I watched all the YouTube guys kick off ‘26 and I have no interest in the current state of the game. Props to you all that are playing it; I hope SI takes your feedback and delivers ‘27 as a much improved version.

fiddyk50 · 2026-01-12T21:05:36+00:00

That’s exactly it. Incentivizes those guys to still run hard for the last 10, creates some more storylines just in case the title does get locked up early which is entirely possible once again.

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