[davidm]

Originally Posted by hoscalecody Being honest taking the restrictor plate out will probably not fix it, very likely make the problem worse. I've been playing iRacing for quite a few years, racing mainly pavement Nascar. (May not do everything super realistic, but enough Nascar drivers said it's quite realistic.) They released the Gen 6/Current Nascar and made the Gen 5/CoT have no restrictor plate, so it can now go 250ish. That didn't stop pack racing it just made the pack racing have more violent wrecks, because you're going 50 miles an hour faster, still in a pack. You couldn't pull away from the pack, just like you can't now. Also if you take the plate out only a few teams are really going have a chance of winning because your car can now go 45-50+ Mph faster and a lot of the teams probably don't have the money or R&D to make an engine that fast. At least now almost any team really has a chance to win at the super speedways, due to draft and pack racing. I could almost guarantee if they took the plate out Larson probably would never win a superspeedway unless he goes to Hendrick, SHR or Gibbs. Another thing is they're still doing around 200mph at the 1.5 mile tracks, it's not just the Superspeedways.

NASCAR turned the cars into prototypes. Remove all the aero track dragging plastic, the big spoiler and make them look stock again. That will slow the cars down a lot in the turns and make them harder to drive. Rev limiters, harder and smaller tire width could also be used to slow them down.