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A New Directive

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Now that the dust has settled on the whole Carl-Brad altercation, here's what we know.

At least for now, NASCAR is going to stick with "have at it boys". That is the new prime directive.

When NASCAR will let Carl Edward go unpunished for his tanking of Brad Keslowski, we realize that NASCAR is serious about letting the drivers police themselves. This fits with the whole retro movement that NASCAR has made the past season in their attempt to capture the magic of yesteryear.

This is a logical progression of NASCAR's recent tweaking of the rules: the dual file restarts, and multiple green white checkered restarts, standardized starting times, and now taking the handcuffs off. It's really a journey to the past for the most part.

You can fully expect to see more of what we saw in Atlanta because NASCAR has shown that you almost have to be caught with a hood mounted uzi before you're punished.

A lot of folks are going to like that...until it bites their favorite driver.

I must admit part of me is excited about the new NASCAR attitude. I'm also looking forward to the moment when a driver finds the new ceiling tolerance.

I just hope there isn't a sad to story to go along with that discovery.

Comments (2)

MAURASchneider24

10:45pm on 3/25/2010

Various people all over the world receive the loan in various creditors, just because it is easy.

Ric Fowler

4:26pm on 3/21/2010

I wish all announcers would stop saying,RACE CAR,RACE CAR DRIVER,RACE TRACK,CAUTIONS OUT ON THE RACE TRACK and LOOK AT THIS RIGHT HERE RIGHT HERE.I know NASCAR is a southern thing but come on already.We know its a RACE CAR with a RACE CAR DRIVER on a RACE TRACK and its nice to know the CAUTIONS not in the PARKING LOT.It should be CAR,DRIVER,TRACK and CAUTIONS OUT, very simple. Thank you very much for your time and I hope you pass this on to all the announcers!