So NASCAR thinks changing the points system they had used since 1975 will now fix everything? Simplifying the points system should make the racing closer and more exciting, at least hopefully it will. NASCAR has deemed that drivers must now choose which championship (Cup,Trucks,or Nationwide) they want. This should end the practice of full-time Cup drivers winning the Nationwide championship. It is another welcome change that should have been made long ago. Despite these positive changes, there are still other things NASCAR should and must do to keep their fans and win back the fans they have lost.
Getting rid of the Chase would be an excellent start, along with getting rid of the "Car Of Tomorrow", both of which have given a questionable advantage to the #48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team of driver Jimmie Johnson and his crew chief Chad Knaus, who has been caught cheating on numerous occasions.
Also,scrap political correctness and start racing again. The "Drive For Diversity" program violates the principle of drivers having to earn their positions in NASCAR races by giving preferential treatment to women and non-whites. It is discriminatory against white males. NASCAR's embrace of radical environmentalism is also putting many fans off. Even if it is well-intentioned,it's still evidence of NASCAR's surge to the far left. So-called bio fuels will end up hurting more than helping as stock car engines are not compatible with water-based "bio fuels". "Renewable energy" is a phrase the left uses to attack the American way of life and is code for wanting a bigger government and poorer people,which is what environmental radicals and others on the far left ultimately want in the United States.
I support using renewable energy sources, but this is something that should be left only to the private sector. I also support more drilling for our own oil, even more after the recent upheaval in Egypt, with U.S. reserves richer than Saudi Arabia. Despite the Climate Gate scandal of 2009, which proved even more that human-caused "global warming" is a lie,a myth,and a fraud, most media outlets (showing their leftist bias) have either censored the story or only mentioned it in bits and pieces. NASCAR under Brian France marches in lock-step with the environmental fraud artists. The building of solar panels at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania, no matter how well-intentioned it might be, wreaks of NASCAR's embrace of the radical environmental agenda.
As long as NASCAR continues its slide to the political and social left, the sport's decline will continue and its demise likely.
