[mitchntx]

After watching a some of the coverage of the Daytona 500 this weekend and hearing a lot of discussion about the costs associated with feilding a competitive team and hearing the gnashing of teeth surrounding the dwindling sponsorships and hearing the concerns about enough cars to field a full grid and seeing Waltrip's wild tumble and seeing that tumble re-played on network after network after network ....

I began to wonder ....

Because it's all about the number of minutes a specific sponsor get's it's name on TV, when will a driver, who is an "also ran", purposely wreck his car, just get gleen a few extra minutes of sponsor coverage?

Is it cost effective to spend a $100,000 race car in order to keep a $10 million sponsor?

NAPA received tons of exposure from networks to local TV stations replaying his wreck. I would hate to see that happen on purpose, but ... it has to be there in someone's mind ...

[AllZWay]

I would absolutely love to see IROC ran at several venues... ie... Dirt, ovals, drag strip, & road courses...and maybe even a rally. I have begged for that for years.

I really like the Speed World challenge since it the closest to good American road racing exept for the Runoffs... which I thoroughly enjoy, but I prefer to watch the Australian Supercars. It is fender on fender racing on road courses.

Ultimately, I prefer some type of control on cars....maybe not exactly spec, but at least some constraints. Otherwise it turns into F1... 200 million dollar budgets just to be competitive.

And while all racing always revolves around money.... it is nice to see racing that money isn't always King and actual DRIVING talents play a role in the outcome.

I guilty of watching any form of racing.... Australian Jet boats, lawnmowers, Florida swamp buggies.....etc. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)