The Nascar Thread (6 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Yep - I thought Phoenix was pretty good. The option tires were definitely interesting. I think the yellows fell just right to pretty much take most of the alt strategies out. With 35 to go when they went back green, the reds were just going to kill any other plan.

But if the thing had gone green for another 30 laps with only a late race shootout G/W/C, that would have been interesting.

Yeah, that caution was annoying. I wanted a green final stage and see the pit and tire strategies.

 

[superchuck500]

Yeah, that caution was annoying. I wanted a green final stage and see the pit and tire strategies.

I think had it gone green to finish or even to a very late caution, the good cars on long-runs with the primaries would have been in great shape. I think Larson, Blaney, Denny, and Buescher all had good long-run cars, but I think the 20 may have still had them covered. The 45 and 24 were really good too before their issues.

Would one of the long run cars gotten to the front on the primaries? Maybe. Or at least challenged the 20. But if a very late caution came out, you could have had a situation where the leaders had reds to put on but would have had to give up the lead to pit. That could have been a great - and a mess with some cars on old yellows and some cars on new reds. Yikes.

 

[DaveXA]

I think had it gone green to finish or even to a very late caution, the good cars on long-runs with the primaries would have been in great shape. I think Larson, Blaney, Denny, and Buescher all had good long-run cars, but I think the 20 may have still had them covered. The 45 and 24 were really good too before their issues.

Would one of the long run cars gotten to the front on the primaries? Maybe. Or at least challenged the 20. But if a very late caution came out, you could have had a situation where the leaders had reds to put on but would have had to give up the lead to pit. That could have been a great - and a mess with some cars on old yellows and some cars on new reds. Yikes.

I hope they keep experimenting. I like the concept. I do think in a lot of cases the tires have become almost irrelevant at some tracks because they run out of fuel long before there's a large enough fall-off to really matter. With the option tires, there's another layer of strategy and definitely adds to the viewer experience.

I want to see lots of falloff and really set the drivers apart.

 

[superchuck500]

I hope they keep experimenting. I like the concept. I do think in a lot of cases the tires have become almost irrelevant at some tracks because they run out of fuel long before there's a large enough fall-off to really matter. With the option tires, there's another layer of strategy and definitely adds to the viewer experience.

I want to see lots of falloff and really set the drivers apart.

Yeah - there used to be a thing called a "tire run" at some tracks - where the tire falloff was the key factor for the pit schedule, not fuel. Every now and then we get that when they mess with it but it doesn't always go to plan it seems.