Have to disagree on this one. "The big ones" (multiple in this case) ruin the race as far as I'm concerned. It took over an hour and fifteen minutes to run the last seven laps of the race. How exciting.
I know I'm probably in the minority, but to me the intentional bump-drafting is not real racing. I think NASCAR should look at the whole drafting picture and consider major changes. NASCAR is not nearly as popular as it was quite a while back, and I think the fact that the faster cars and slower cars are so bunched up even late in the race that "the big one" is nearly inevitable. I know many people like so many cars still in the running, but to me it's just not true racing. Contact at 200mph should be avoided, not encouraged. And a faster car should be able to pull away a bit from slower cars. That puts the pressure on the slower cars to figure out a way to go faster (pit stop changes, etc.) and on the faster cars to keep it together and fight off legitimate challenges.
|