How to make NASCAR better

The other one I've been told is drivers want as much time out on the track as possible.

They and their crews can use that which they learn in Nationwide practice and qualifying to help with set-ups on their Sprint cars, and the more track time they have, the better feel they can have for which racing lines are working, and which aren't, and where passing opportunities may present themselves.

 

Yes, but.

From 1961 - 1971, Richard Petty competed in 48 - 62 races each year. In those days, they raced at one track during the week and another on the weekend. And that's just the officially recognized events.

That said, it was almost a completely different sport then, so comparisons are dicey.

 

I question that. If the Triple-A of the big-boy series is what NASCAR thinks it is, it will be fine.

But there's no question the bigger names help fill the seats for the Triple-A series. And on that fact alone, NASCAR isn't about to mess with the Cup drivers if they wish to participate. The France family has never turned away money, you know ...

 

Won't be any compromise. The engine rules in the Buschwide Series are designed to keep expenses down. To alternate from one year to the next, you'd have teams from the lesser series trying to match wits and budgets with the Cup teams every two years.

The problems with the Buschwide Series is that it's overpromoted. Your idea to ban Cup drivers from the Buschwide Series is good; it's supposed to be a development series, after all, and ARCA took that step a long, long time ago. Best bet might be to dump the Buschwide Series, give some of its dates to the truck series (with a no-Cup-drivers rule similar to ARCA's rule about NASCAR drivers) and some of them to ARCA. It's a support series; by definition, it shouldn't be promoted as heavily as it is.