Originally Posted by illinisprintfan:
After watching the video on yahoo, I think Nascar has a problem that needs to be looked at. They showed video of the crash yesterday and of Edwards' crash last year. In both cases the "roof flaps" opened which should have settled the car back down when the car was going backwards. Instead, both cars continued to lift. Edwards' car got some help, but it was rising as it was hit by the other car. I'm wondering if the lift generated by the rear wing going backwards completely counteracted the roof flaps disrupting air flow to keep the car from flying. The cars both seemed to react like they did before the roof flaps were developed.
I believe that is one of the reason NASCAR is looking at the spoiler again because of the lift generated by the rear wing.
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Originally Posted by petey:
That was the most I'd watched of a NASCAR race in a while. Guess I wanted to see if Kahne could pull of another win at Atlanta or if Montoya could make a charge and win, but wanted to see one of them win over Busch.
I can unserstand Carl being upset and he showed good composure in his interview with Bergeren. I'm sure he didn't mean to flip him. Maybe he should have just waited for Bristol in two weeks. And yes ditch the white gloves if your going to do that stuff.
Many say NASCAR died when Dale died. Maybe so but they started going down hill when they decided to get rid or cut races from their good old tracks. Darlington needs a second race again and Rockingham hosted prolly the best races of the year before they dumped it. 
all these cookie cutter tracks they race at now!
NASCAR lost a lot of their old diehard fans when they started catering to the "event goers", raising ticket prices, and of course the prices of lodging keep escalulating. I am sure the economy hasn't help and like you said doing away with the older tracks. There were a lot of empty seats at Atlanta yesterday.
REH