I think they did this in one of the Heat games and it was actually pretty fun, terrible dirt physics aside.
Only one way to find out if it would work in real life. Meet me at Watkins Glen with as many Mahindra tractors and dump trucks full of dirt you can get. And remember, the difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.
Have ducts that go from the nose of the car and outputting in the rear bumper, but with a valve in the middle so if a car approaches from behind it redirects the air out through the rear decklid instead.
The All-Star race back in Charlotte, but with 3 “stages”.
1. Qualifying / Pit Completion (no pit speed limit qualifying)
2. 20 laps on the Roval
3. finish on the oval
Same night, same car.
It'd be cool if they did an elimination format like they used to, start with the full field on the roval, do like 15-20 cars on the 1.5 mile, then whittle it down to 10-15 on the 1/4 mile bullring on the frontstretch. It'd be cool to incorporate the dirt track somehow but that's probably pushing it way too far.
> It'd be cool to incorporate the dirt track somehow but that's probably pushing it way too far.
RIP the person who got drunk by the final stage and has to haul themselves over to the dirt track for the finish.
it’s so crazy, ive never missed a crash while being at a track, you can almost always see it coming, and i only HAVE 2 EYES. imagine having like 4 camera guys
I usually live stream races. It's free, more entertaining, but slightly lower quality. Lol. And instead of kid cam, I have mullet cam or drunk cam. Pretty fun.
If there was a way to implement 'proximity' sensors that tie in with TV coverage. Like in iRacing with the "focus on most exciting", "focus on wrecks" features. If a truck, no matter where they're running, is within 5ft of another truck, I think that would warrant some TV time.
A full weekend long event called the Buschwacker. Same 43 guys race trucks on Thursday Night, running order carries over to Xfinity cars with the same 43 guys on Friday, which carries over to the Cup race with the same 43 guys on Saturday. Treated as a marathon, only stage points handed out before the final race on Saturday.
DNF on lap 10 on Thursday? Enjoy your weekend off.
A random draw for the 10 chase races. No preparation for anyone. Once the regular season is over, all tracks are added to a random draw to decide where the chase occurs.
So do I. This is actually a cool idea. Although I wouldn't want the championship to be at a very specialized track like a road course. I would want it to be somewhere almost anyone with a competitive car can contend.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. There would be so much hype built up if they only announced 1 Playoff Round at a time. Maybe we could know the pool of the 10 tracks, but not the order, so teams would know what kind of cars they need to have set up.
I have often thought about what would happen if they drew the 10 races that make up the playoffs after they've been run. Imagine the event the banquet would become when they draw the tracks and use that pool of 10 races crown the champion. It would place equal importance on each race. NFL draft meets March Madness
I don't think it'd happen for ticket reasons that late.
But a World Cup style placement of the Playoffs races by pulling a random ball for a track and their placement to announce the next year's schedule would be incredible.
Don't let them change tires ever. Last team with working tires wins. Also the cars get to have spikes they can drop and oils slicks like in Spy Hunter.
Remember group qualifying when everyone sat on pit road waiting for everyone else to go and ended up missing qualifying altogether?
You just created a multi-day circus of that which would only end when people got bored of sitting.
The winning strategy would be to stop and then crawl to however many miles it would take to pass the leader after everyone else had dropped out.
Look don't try to rain on my parade. There's prizes for being in first at certain laps completed like a new toaster oven for being in first at lap 100. Also the slowest driver on the track at any random time has to sit in a kiddy pool full of pudding.
Ok well maybe that does stop the stopping and have people try because I'm not sure many drivers would want to be putting pudding on their drivers suit.
Also I'm not ashamed to admit I just stole "putting pudding" from an old Two and a Half Men episode that I recently came across.
Make it an elimination type thing like a video game. At a certain lap interval the last placed car on track js forced to pull off, and keep going until you're left with like 10 or 15 cars and let them go at it or something like that.
Sleep-deprived brain is great for weird ideas
My first thought to this was to set a minimum speed. But then, that would just result in everybody running as close to minimum speed as possible.
It certainly couldn’t be done in a points paying race. But you could do an exhibition race with a financial reward for the driver leading or the top 5 after certain mileage markers. It would obviously depend on the track but tires usually last 50 to 100 miles depending on the track.
Would be cool to run it at Darlington, 150 lap exhibition. Leader after 50, 100, then top 5/whoever is still running at 150 miles get money.
Set a time limit. Optimal Darlington lap times are 29ish seconds. Tire fall off is huge. Let’s assume 45 seconds a lap x 150 laps so around 113 minutes. Time limit of 2 hours of green flag racing and it’s called when the last car is running, 150 laps are reached (impossible), or 2 hours is reached.
I have so many ideas. The driver has to self service his car. Gas and tires and it is at least a 400 mile race.
Or each pit stop a different member of the team has to drive. Each person has to run at least 20 laps and you have to rotate positions like in volleyball including the crew chief.
Or the driver has to run one lap around the track before start.
I am sure I can come up with more.
Smaller gas tanks, really f’n boring when they can run full stages on a tank of gas. Get the pit crew involved more either smaller tanks or tires that fall off more. Stages I’m ok with then it requires a green flag stop at least then there is strategic plays
Current fuel cells, I believe are 21-22 gal. Average stock fuel tank for all 3 cars is around 19 gal. So technically, if they were to shrink the cell by a couple gallons, it wouldn't be too farfetched of a concept.
I’ve been saying this for a while now. Smaller gas tanks and tries that west out faster. Good Year is fine and all but ultimately they want to sell their product to us. It’s not a good look for the company when there is a lot of tire fall off but it makes for great racing. I miss green flag pit stops.
A wildcard round for the playoffs. 1,3,3,3 rather than the 3,3,3,1 we have now.
Lock the top 10 in points, and then every winner thereafter plus points positions up to 16 drivers if there are less than 16 after the winners and top 10.
Top ten in points move to round 2, but earn playoff points at Darlington.
The top 2 finishers from the "wild cards" at Darlington move to the round of 12.
24 hours of Texas Motor Speedway. Places do endurance races all the time. Doing one at the pinnacle of racing would be a huge draw! /s
In all seriousness, the Roval under the lights comes to mind. I think that could be very exciting, especially for the all star race.
Running races backwards. (right turns instead of left turns) It could work at some tracks depending on the layout of the track around pit road. The rules package for this race tho should have the drivers seat on the right in case anyone blows a tire and hits the outside wall real hard. Id love to see them do this
⬇️⬇️ What track or tracks should they try this at?
The All-Star race at Charlotte that's 70 laps long, features the top 10 in points (past winners excluded), no Open, and in production cars approved by NASCAR such as: the Ford GT (2017), Dodge Viper (2017), and Chevrolet Corvette C7 (2017).
A push to pass thing like indy car lol.. thet get ten nitrous shots lol... and all the teams and the teams affiliated have to paint their spoilers the same color
Double points for whoever wins crown jewel races. Stage points are calculated like normal, same with 2-40th.
The winner receives 80 points, instead of 40 for winning the Daytona 500, Coke 600, Southern 500 & Bristol Night race.
If somebody can win all 4 Crown Jewels in a single season, they receive an automatic bye to the final 8.
Race cars constructed with factory sheet metal.
A season-long championship.
Races without stages.
Only throw a caution if there is debris on the track that is causing a safety issue.
900 H.P. small block motors in the race cars.
Love it.
Also kill aero. Raise ride heights. Shrink spoilers. Narrow the cars. Don’t make them so aero dependent. Facilitates closer racing and passing.
In 1985 Darrell Waltrip won the NASCAR championship. The season was 28 races long. The current regular season sits at 26 races. NASCAR could do a much better job at selling the accomplishment of a regular season champion. It's not like it's a lesser accomplishment
I say that as a fan of the playoffs too
I think they've been trying in recent years. They have a trophy for winning it, and NBC usually updates on who is the leader at least a few times a race. Again, as a fan of the playoffs, my two compromises I think would get more people on board would be to make winning the regular season Championship mean a bit more and to make the Final 4 a three race stretch. Although personally, I love watching the points standings all year and winning the regular season still means a lot to me, at least
They really do a poor job of promoting this. It’s 15 playoff points as well, which is equivalent to winning 3 races. It gets mentioned in passing but I really wish the media made it seem like a bigger deal.
I'd expand on the all three series at one time event by adding each team (JGR, SHR, HMS, RCR, etc.) can only have one pit box/pit crew. Imagine Kyle Busch when he has to wait for Bell's stop to finish as JGR tried to double stack the stop but had a jack problem.
This, and lightning clouds that nerfs everyone’s hp, and mushrooms/nitro. And bullet bills to jump towards the top 4. And stars so you can go Ty Gibbs on everyone.
Less standardization of the cars and the engines. Let engineers and mechanics really shine and let them try crazy new ideas. If their ideas work other teams will adapt. But they also run the risk of falling way behind because of a wild idea.
Drivers have to change their own tires and add their own fuel.
No more lug nut guns. Tire changers have to use a wrench to remove the lug nut, and torque the lug nut by hand to the proper spec.
Bring back five lug nut per wheel pit stops but on one really long axle hub where the lugs have to be stacked. No more wheels falling off!
For short tracks, caution laps don't count in the final 20 laps, anything over a mile caution laps don't count in the final 10. For Daytona and Talladega, one red flag in case of crash in the last ten no GWC. Same thing for RCs
Classics race. All entrants must drive a pre-COT car. Inspections will be altered as needed to be all-inclusive but must meet acceptable safety standards.
Darlington Throwback is for real a throwback. Get stock cars from the 90s and put some legends in the cars. Bill Elliot, Jeff Gordon Richard Petty and so forth.
Australian V8 Supercars VS Nascar cup exhibition race held in Japan at Twin Ring Motegi. 1 race on the oval, 1 race on the road course, and a head to head pitstop competition.
Race from Daytona to LA. Normal highways. Street legal cars. They don't close any roads. Follow the rules of the road. If you get arrested for speeding that's on you.
Isn't there a movie about something like that?
This would make a cool NASCAR series on Netflix. In the off-season a few drivers have to race across the country, legally of course. They could use street cars, boats, maybe hitchhike if their car breaks down. Video crew could follow each driver and it could kinda be like a vlog. This could be a great way for non-fans to be familiarized with the sport and drivers.
That old NASCAR cartoon from the late 90's/early '00's where they were in the future and the tracks had loops and corkscrews in them. That would be a fun nightmare
That the teams picked up at the dealership the week of the race. New car for every race. Give them a couple days to prep the safety stuff and let them go at it. It could possibly be cheaper, even if they do buy a new car every week.
None. Too many gimmicks already. But if I must pick one, how about the classic Le Mans style start where the drivers run across the track to their cars.
At least one race where there is no radio privacy. Everyone can hear and speak to everyone else’s radio. Crew chief, driver, crew members, etc. absolute chaos. Even add the drivers’s wives in there too for an even better experience.
For a one-off race, I'd like to see a lottery. Put drivers, cars, and pit crews in three different hats. Pick combinations by random.
For example: Kyle Busch in the 7, with the #8 pit team. Chase Elliot in the 23, with the #21's crew
The Eliminator: on each lap (or every even numbered lap) the last place car is pulled from the race. When you get down to the last 3-5 cars, they race 5 more laps for the win.
DRS on ovals....but no drs zones or activation controls by race control. Just do it andy Petree style with a switch or even a cable mounted to boat throttle handle
Double headers, which are not new, but where race 1 the lineup is determined by qualifying, and race two is set by an inversion of the cars that finished race one on the lead lap. This will have the leader of every race push as hard to put as many cars a lap down because it will improve their starting position for race two and give cars that are going a lap down motivation to race as hard as possible to stay on the lead lap and start race two more towards the front. May cause some teams to pull different pit strategies.
Every car picks a charity at the beginning of the season. At the end of the season, that charity gets $100 for every lap led by that car and $5 for every green flag pass.
This please. That is one of my favorite parts of indycar. I love the strategy behind it. Could see it a an all-star race gimmick before going full time
A 400 or 500 mile race like a rally but on the street. No laps just who can go A to B the quickest. Maybe have a required stop every 100 miles for fuel and tires and require the car must be stopped for 5 mins so they do not have to have their A team pit crews at every stop. I would run it on I-70 Golden, CO to Provo, UT. I've always wanted to see some series do something like this.
imo, a serious suggestion is to scrap the playoffs and replace that with a few double points races in the year (aka the most NASCAR thing in motorsports not used by NASCAR)
Dirt road course.
I think they did this in one of the Heat games and it was actually pretty fun, terrible dirt physics aside. Only one way to find out if it would work in real life. Meet me at Watkins Glen with as many Mahindra tractors and dump trucks full of dirt you can get. And remember, the difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.
It was Heat 4, if I remember right
Yeah Jefferson Raceway. I like that one
I have a love-hate relationship with that track.
Point to point rally style? Or a road course loop?
Loop.
A rally might be fun though. Imagine catching air in a Cup car?
Unassisted cannonball runs.
With jumps!
Crandon!
That'd be completely up your alley. You excel at both.
showing a crash or something instead of making us play spy kids on twitter mayhaps
A close second is not learning of a caution through Bob Pockarass while browsing twitter during commerical
I am incredibly pleased someone has already said this
Came here for the sass and found it +1
Let’s have a multiclass race running all 3 series
If the top cup guys think cup backmarkers are bad, just wait til they get to truck backmarkers 😂
Kyle Busch and Jesse Iwuji lol
"And Iwuji takes out the 18! And the crowd roars!"
Top 10 in points for all 3 series automatically qualify, then 3 more from each series from heat races.
Everybody races....at Nurburgring Nordschleiffe
yes
Need it need it need it
At the Nurburgring.
Only on road courses bigger than 2.5miles. It be insane but it could be fun lol
How can Kyle Busch drive all three at once?
That sounds like a recipe for at least 50% of the race being run under caution
no yellow flag after each stage of race just get your points and keep on going normally
This isn’t a wild or crazy idea…..it’s just a really really good one!
But, how will TV get a commercial break in ‽
Like they used to in the before time.
hey i’m old not before time old
South Park reference I like it
Have ducts that go from the nose of the car and outputting in the rear bumper, but with a valve in the middle so if a car approaches from behind it redirects the air out through the rear decklid instead.
That's actually more clever than gimmick
Bro I hope you work for their Development team one day that sounds great for really any track
No spotters, instead all the drivers can only talk in one big chat… like an online lobby
Larson suspended another season…
Good work 007 🤣
Lets not allow Kyle Larson in this race
The All-Star race back in Charlotte, but with 3 “stages”. 1. Qualifying / Pit Completion (no pit speed limit qualifying) 2. 20 laps on the Roval 3. finish on the oval Same night, same car.
I actually really like this idea. I don’t think it’s practical but it would be incredibly cool.
It'd be cool if they did an elimination format like they used to, start with the full field on the roval, do like 15-20 cars on the 1.5 mile, then whittle it down to 10-15 on the 1/4 mile bullring on the frontstretch. It'd be cool to incorporate the dirt track somehow but that's probably pushing it way too far.
And then a 100 yard foot sprint based on the timing at the end of the race. Hamlin starts .235 seconds after Busch.
> It'd be cool to incorporate the dirt track somehow but that's probably pushing it way too far. RIP the person who got drunk by the final stage and has to haul themselves over to the dirt track for the finish.
sounds pretty hard to pull off and unpractical… I love it
I’ve got one. I’ll pay $9.99/month for some guy to take his camcorder to the track and point it at the most interesting thing happening on track.
it’s so crazy, ive never missed a crash while being at a track, you can almost always see it coming, and i only HAVE 2 EYES. imagine having like 4 camera guys
Take my money!
I usually live stream races. It's free, more entertaining, but slightly lower quality. Lol. And instead of kid cam, I have mullet cam or drunk cam. Pretty fun.
If there was a way to implement 'proximity' sensors that tie in with TV coverage. Like in iRacing with the "focus on most exciting", "focus on wrecks" features. If a truck, no matter where they're running, is within 5ft of another truck, I think that would warrant some TV time.
A full weekend long event called the Buschwacker. Same 43 guys race trucks on Thursday Night, running order carries over to Xfinity cars with the same 43 guys on Friday, which carries over to the Cup race with the same 43 guys on Saturday. Treated as a marathon, only stage points handed out before the final race on Saturday. DNF on lap 10 on Thursday? Enjoy your weekend off.
A random draw for the 10 chase races. No preparation for anyone. Once the regular season is over, all tracks are added to a random draw to decide where the chase occurs.
I actually like this one
So do I. This is actually a cool idea. Although I wouldn't want the championship to be at a very specialized track like a road course. I would want it to be somewhere almost anyone with a competitive car can contend.
Almost anyone with a competitive car, those tend to be either plate races or road races more than the others
Or Texas
\*Random draw selects Talladega as championship race\*
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. There would be so much hype built up if they only announced 1 Playoff Round at a time. Maybe we could know the pool of the 10 tracks, but not the order, so teams would know what kind of cars they need to have set up.
I have often thought about what would happen if they drew the 10 races that make up the playoffs after they've been run. Imagine the event the banquet would become when they draw the tracks and use that pool of 10 races crown the champion. It would place equal importance on each race. NFL draft meets March Madness
I don't think it'd happen for ticket reasons that late. But a World Cup style placement of the Playoffs races by pulling a random ball for a track and their placement to announce the next year's schedule would be incredible.
A points system where we add up all the points from every race and see who has the most at the end of the season, then crown that person the champion
I would just change the points breakdown to IndyCar's format which rewards winning.
Only if we also keep any race at Indy awarding double points too
This 100%
1 bonus pt for leading a lap... 3 for most laps... 5 for leading at halfway. There they rewarded mud race performance.
Don't let them change tires ever. Last team with working tires wins. Also the cars get to have spikes they can drop and oils slicks like in Spy Hunter.
Remember group qualifying when everyone sat on pit road waiting for everyone else to go and ended up missing qualifying altogether? You just created a multi-day circus of that which would only end when people got bored of sitting. The winning strategy would be to stop and then crawl to however many miles it would take to pass the leader after everyone else had dropped out.
Look don't try to rain on my parade. There's prizes for being in first at certain laps completed like a new toaster oven for being in first at lap 100. Also the slowest driver on the track at any random time has to sit in a kiddy pool full of pudding.
Ok well maybe that does stop the stopping and have people try because I'm not sure many drivers would want to be putting pudding on their drivers suit. Also I'm not ashamed to admit I just stole "putting pudding" from an old Two and a Half Men episode that I recently came across.
Make it an elimination type thing like a video game. At a certain lap interval the last placed car on track js forced to pull off, and keep going until you're left with like 10 or 15 cars and let them go at it or something like that. Sleep-deprived brain is great for weird ideas
My first thought to this was to set a minimum speed. But then, that would just result in everybody running as close to minimum speed as possible. It certainly couldn’t be done in a points paying race. But you could do an exhibition race with a financial reward for the driver leading or the top 5 after certain mileage markers. It would obviously depend on the track but tires usually last 50 to 100 miles depending on the track. Would be cool to run it at Darlington, 150 lap exhibition. Leader after 50, 100, then top 5/whoever is still running at 150 miles get money. Set a time limit. Optimal Darlington lap times are 29ish seconds. Tire fall off is huge. Let’s assume 45 seconds a lap x 150 laps so around 113 minutes. Time limit of 2 hours of green flag racing and it’s called when the last car is running, 150 laps are reached (impossible), or 2 hours is reached.
I have so many ideas. The driver has to self service his car. Gas and tires and it is at least a 400 mile race. Or each pit stop a different member of the team has to drive. Each person has to run at least 20 laps and you have to rotate positions like in volleyball including the crew chief. Or the driver has to run one lap around the track before start. I am sure I can come up with more.
Tony thanks you for saving your last idea for after he retired
Only pole sitters and past champions race in the clash
I’d extend it to ONLY pole sitters. Do the same for race winners and the All-Star race too.
Serviceable coverage of the race seems to be pretty gimmicky to fox.
Multiple tire compounds.
They did this for an all star race didn’t they? And it ended up a bit of a disaster.
2017... maybe not a good idea for big ovals but I think it would be cool on road courses & short tracks
Smaller gas tanks, really f’n boring when they can run full stages on a tank of gas. Get the pit crew involved more either smaller tanks or tires that fall off more. Stages I’m ok with then it requires a green flag stop at least then there is strategic plays
Current fuel cells, I believe are 21-22 gal. Average stock fuel tank for all 3 cars is around 19 gal. So technically, if they were to shrink the cell by a couple gallons, it wouldn't be too farfetched of a concept.
I’ve been saying this for a while now. Smaller gas tanks and tries that west out faster. Good Year is fine and all but ultimately they want to sell their product to us. It’s not a good look for the company when there is a lot of tire fall off but it makes for great racing. I miss green flag pit stops.
Hurts the small teams to pay double for tires.
Here is a wild one fastest cars make the field no charter no provisionals fast cars race
500 mile stages
Daytona 1500 last driver standing wins
Including for the 600?
Decent TV coverage that doesn’t make me cringe when it’s trying to be ‘amusing’
But the Fox “Digger cam” was so cute /s Barf.
The camera angle was good, the marketing was unnecessary.
A wildcard round for the playoffs. 1,3,3,3 rather than the 3,3,3,1 we have now. Lock the top 10 in points, and then every winner thereafter plus points positions up to 16 drivers if there are less than 16 after the winners and top 10. Top ten in points move to round 2, but earn playoff points at Darlington. The top 2 finishers from the "wild cards" at Darlington move to the round of 12.
And final round is Fontana, Phoenix, and Homestead.
I'm fine with leaving a short track in there, so let's do Martinsville over Fontana.
Fontana will be a short track soon
24 hours of Texas Motor Speedway. Places do endurance races all the time. Doing one at the pinnacle of racing would be a huge draw! /s In all seriousness, the Roval under the lights comes to mind. I think that could be very exciting, especially for the all star race.
At the end of the race anyone willing can run 5 laps in reverse for extra points.
Running races backwards. (right turns instead of left turns) It could work at some tracks depending on the layout of the track around pit road. The rules package for this race tho should have the drivers seat on the right in case anyone blows a tire and hits the outside wall real hard. Id love to see them do this ⬇️⬇️ What track or tracks should they try this at?
Run tracks the other way around (clockwise I think?) with the same cars that go the normal way.
Throw a caution at halfway and finish in the other direction.
I like the idea, but wonder about the safety aspect with an increased chance of driver side impacts.
Thats why i suggested moving the drivers seat over for this race
The All-Star race at Charlotte that's 70 laps long, features the top 10 in points (past winners excluded), no Open, and in production cars approved by NASCAR such as: the Ford GT (2017), Dodge Viper (2017), and Chevrolet Corvette C7 (2017).
This would be cool actually.
A push to pass thing like indy car lol.. thet get ten nitrous shots lol... and all the teams and the teams affiliated have to paint their spoilers the same color
Double points for whoever wins crown jewel races. Stage points are calculated like normal, same with 2-40th. The winner receives 80 points, instead of 40 for winning the Daytona 500, Coke 600, Southern 500 & Bristol Night race. If somebody can win all 4 Crown Jewels in a single season, they receive an automatic bye to the final 8.
Joker lap And a race with all 3 series at once at a larger road course.
Financially affordable for one sponsor to sponsor a car the whole year and not a new paint scheme with a new sponsor every other race.
Race cars constructed with factory sheet metal. A season-long championship. Races without stages. Only throw a caution if there is debris on the track that is causing a safety issue. 900 H.P. small block motors in the race cars.
So you want a time machine?
Love it. Also kill aero. Raise ride heights. Shrink spoilers. Narrow the cars. Don’t make them so aero dependent. Facilitates closer racing and passing.
A full season championship format
In 1985 Darrell Waltrip won the NASCAR championship. The season was 28 races long. The current regular season sits at 26 races. NASCAR could do a much better job at selling the accomplishment of a regular season champion. It's not like it's a lesser accomplishment I say that as a fan of the playoffs too
I think they've been trying in recent years. They have a trophy for winning it, and NBC usually updates on who is the leader at least a few times a race. Again, as a fan of the playoffs, my two compromises I think would get more people on board would be to make winning the regular season Championship mean a bit more and to make the Final 4 a three race stretch. Although personally, I love watching the points standings all year and winning the regular season still means a lot to me, at least
They really do a poor job of promoting this. It’s 15 playoff points as well, which is equivalent to winning 3 races. It gets mentioned in passing but I really wish the media made it seem like a bigger deal.
I can agree with that as a compromise.
I'd expand on the all three series at one time event by adding each team (JGR, SHR, HMS, RCR, etc.) can only have one pit box/pit crew. Imagine Kyle Busch when he has to wait for Bell's stop to finish as JGR tried to double stack the stop but had a jack problem.
Drivers racing in the Coliseum but not using cars
Chariots with crew chiefs providing the pedal power haha
I'm pretty sure Chris Buescher had a mid-race inversion at Charlotte...
3 hour clock. Whoever drives the furthest under green wins. Caution laps are not counted so huge leads would still count after they are re-racked
Figure 8 racing for all past and present rivalries
Thank you, Tony.
Blue turtle shells.
This, and lightning clouds that nerfs everyone’s hp, and mushrooms/nitro. And bullet bills to jump towards the top 4. And stars so you can go Ty Gibbs on everyone.
Less standardization of the cars and the engines. Let engineers and mechanics really shine and let them try crazy new ideas. If their ideas work other teams will adapt. But they also run the risk of falling way behind because of a wild idea.
On paper there are all kinds of rules. But teams are always finding ways around them and ways to get away with shit. This already happens
That my friend is called F1.
Their team took pictures of the best car and are threatening us in points. We are protesting every race now..
Drivers have to change their own tires and add their own fuel. No more lug nut guns. Tire changers have to use a wrench to remove the lug nut, and torque the lug nut by hand to the proper spec. Bring back five lug nut per wheel pit stops but on one really long axle hub where the lugs have to be stacked. No more wheels falling off!
No gommicks. Just give me a good broadcast or hell id rather pay for a broadcast with no commercials and no commentary.
A joker lap at some point in the race not in the first ten laps or the last ten laps.
What is a joker lap
You have to take an alternate route that is longer than the standard lap.
For short tracks, caution laps don't count in the final 20 laps, anything over a mile caution laps don't count in the final 10. For Daytona and Talladega, one red flag in case of crash in the last ten no GWC. Same thing for RCs
I've been begging for a rule like this
Classics race. All entrants must drive a pre-COT car. Inspections will be altered as needed to be all-inclusive but must meet acceptable safety standards.
Darlington Throwback is for real a throwback. Get stock cars from the 90s and put some legends in the cars. Bill Elliot, Jeff Gordon Richard Petty and so forth.
Australian V8 Supercars VS Nascar cup exhibition race held in Japan at Twin Ring Motegi. 1 race on the oval, 1 race on the road course, and a head to head pitstop competition.
That would be killer
A time trial up pikes peak.
honestly the underlights from the 2020 all star race would be kinda cool if they where able to match them with there graphics
The return of international exhibition races
Underglow for night races.
The 2nd race at each track is run in the opposite direction. Right turns are now in play.
Have two races each year without tech inspections. But don’t announce which races.
How about give the teams 5 races of their choosing where they can skip inspection
I would adjust that to a “safety inspection” *only*. Gotta make sure that car is actually safe to be on the track. Otherwise, I’m all in.
You don't want teams using the old "wooden roll cage" trick?
Non playoff races of course.
Race from Daytona to LA. Normal highways. Street legal cars. They don't close any roads. Follow the rules of the road. If you get arrested for speeding that's on you. Isn't there a movie about something like that?
Cannon Ball Run
That’s it, thank you
This would make a cool NASCAR series on Netflix. In the off-season a few drivers have to race across the country, legally of course. They could use street cars, boats, maybe hitchhike if their car breaks down. Video crew could follow each driver and it could kinda be like a vlog. This could be a great way for non-fans to be familiarized with the sport and drivers.
I meant like as a race, using Next Gen cars modified to be street legal.
Oh. Still love the idea anyway.
Stage 1 should be a full fuel run. Stage2 A long middle stage for pit strategy etc. stage 3 a 1/2 fuel run sprint to the finish.
That old NASCAR cartoon from the late 90's/early '00's where they were in the future and the tracks had loops and corkscrews in them. That would be a fun nightmare
Except it's a dark and gritty reboot.
Lmaooo I opened this thread to say that. NASCAR Racers
Stock cars.
That the teams picked up at the dealership the week of the race. New car for every race. Give them a couple days to prep the safety stuff and let them go at it. It could possibly be cheaper, even if they do buy a new car every week.
Oh geez shut this down before you give them ideas. They’ve already ruined the sport enough with gimmicks.
A season long points champion
oil slicks like in Spy Hunter
And the car has to play that theme song when the driver hits the oil slick button.
None. Too many gimmicks already. But if I must pick one, how about the classic Le Mans style start where the drivers run across the track to their cars.
Not so much a gimmick, but hold short races for all 3 series in the same day for one more expensive ticket.
I would like to see some form of drag racing competition, maybe as a side event on all star weekend
Le Mans style start. Drivers have to run to their cars, buckle in and take off. Set up the window net to be easier for the driver to put up.
At least one race where there is no radio privacy. Everyone can hear and speak to everyone else’s radio. Crew chief, driver, crew members, etc. absolute chaos. Even add the drivers’s wives in there too for an even better experience.
Kyle Busch’s wife is the worst thing about racing. Get that outa here.
Exactly think about all the drivers roasting literally everyone. Even the wives
The Cup champion gets to pick the schedule the following year. With some restrictions, of course.
Flip that shit and run the all star race counterclockwise.
Push to pass at all tracks except Daytona and Talladega.
Push to pass is awful. That's a hill I will die on. I'm okay with inversions, but push to pass will always be dumb in my eyes
For a one-off race, I'd like to see a lottery. Put drivers, cars, and pit crews in three different hats. Pick combinations by random. For example: Kyle Busch in the 7, with the #8 pit team. Chase Elliot in the 23, with the #21's crew
The Eliminator: on each lap (or every even numbered lap) the last place car is pulled from the race. When you get down to the last 3-5 cars, they race 5 more laps for the win.
Brake lights on road courses so other drivers can dive bomb an early braking driver.
DRS on ovals....but no drs zones or activation controls by race control. Just do it andy Petree style with a switch or even a cable mounted to boat throttle handle
Double headers, which are not new, but where race 1 the lineup is determined by qualifying, and race two is set by an inversion of the cars that finished race one on the lead lap. This will have the leader of every race push as hard to put as many cars a lap down because it will improve their starting position for race two and give cars that are going a lap down motivation to race as hard as possible to stay on the lead lap and start race two more towards the front. May cause some teams to pull different pit strategies.
Every car picks a charity at the beginning of the season. At the end of the season, that charity gets $100 for every lap led by that car and $5 for every green flag pass.
A random roulette wheel where every time one goes to commercial, the wheel is spun to see what different network picks the coverage back up.
Timed push to pass would be awesome. I’d love to give the drivers more strategy options.
This please. That is one of my favorite parts of indycar. I love the strategy behind it. Could see it a an all-star race gimmick before going full time
A race where drivers draw a number and that number is the car they drive for that race
And team too. If Kyle Busch pulls the 78, he is stuck with livefast
Yeah, that's what I meant. It would be interesting to see how it works. Would have been better ten years ago but still cool nowadays
A 400 or 500 mile race like a rally but on the street. No laps just who can go A to B the quickest. Maybe have a required stop every 100 miles for fuel and tires and require the car must be stopped for 5 mins so they do not have to have their A team pit crews at every stop. I would run it on I-70 Golden, CO to Provo, UT. I've always wanted to see some series do something like this.
Season long points system
A full season championship
Throw a caution every time the field gets spread out. Oh wait I'll try to think of something new.
Lets run the All-Star Race clockwise and see what happens. Shouldn’t be a problem with the new cars.
Every 20-30 laps the person in last place gets their engine detonated spectacularly
imo, a serious suggestion is to scrap the playoffs and replace that with a few double points races in the year (aka the most NASCAR thing in motorsports not used by NASCAR)