Datona 500

[Fritz Maurer]

I’m no pt a Busch fan, but he had a good interview for a change.

Officiating at the 500 was worse than normal this year, threw yellow when they shouldn’t, not throw them when they should, no consistency. Divers won’t know how to react now.

Busch wasn’t allowed to fix his car, the rules put him in a box that had no reasonable consistency either. Either they need to park all cars with a fender bender or have a more clear repair rule set allowing all competitors to do some repairs. That was goofy.

NASCAR is sort of like the lawn mower tractor pulls. They are fun for 3 years, then the fella comes along with a double frame stretch lawn mower and a snowmobile engine bolted in, walks away with everything. The next 3 years others do the same, but only 1/4 the competitors show up too expensive. And then no one shows up the whole fun goes away and everyone has a beer and remembers how fun it used to be.

Paul

Thats why there are class restrictions ( at least in the pulls I participated in) .

Somewhere in my stack of Harvester Highlights from 30 years ago, there was a gentleman describing the early days of tractor pulling, when there were no weight restrictions. He showed up with a 12,000 lb M (rear tires filled with shot) running a Chevy 350. He walked away with everything , like you said.

"Weight classes quickly followed " the guy wrote in his article.

I was just pointing out that we did have guys with blown and injected Kohlers in attendance, but I never had to pull against them with my stock Speedex S24. The S24 was a pretty Neanderthal tractor, but they held their own in the garden tractor pulls.