For those who do not know what happened, yesterday was the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway, which was one of the most blatantly corrupt races I've ever seen, but to give a TL;DR of the situation:
Chevrolet told several of the teams that drive its cars to make a blockade in order to guarantee that at least one of its drivers, this time William Byron, would be able to make the Championship 4 race happening this Sunday. This blatant collusion was recorded on several drivers' radios being communicated by their spotters and crew chiefs, which is bringing into question the validity of the current 'playoff' format.
It sucks, and god I wish we went back to the full season format, or at max, the 10 race Chase, because the 'playoffs' don't even boost ratings, which I'd imagine is NASCAR's goal.
Exactly. Anyone who is interested in NASCAR can watch. They fell into the trap we’ve seen in comics or other nerd stuff where they see it as a problem that a lot of guys enjoy something so they seek to “fix” it. Glad NASCAR understands their audience.
When I was in the Air Force there was a master sergeant from Alabama who would always cookout and have beer for every race and he’d invite me over. Him and his wife gave me the rundown for each driver. He gave me a Jeff Gordon hat when I got out of the Air Force