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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
No more NASCAR for me, it's boring, tryign to make it "hip" and "with the times", and in my opinion, killed the sport, and what excited me. I am a big Mark Martin fan, and I'm glad to see him work his magic this year, but even though he almost wont the championship, at the same time, this new points system is ****, and is the only reason Johnson has won it 4 times. I laugh when I think the NASCAR sanctioned a restriction on Toyota motors EVEN though they were within the rules, yet hendrick just runs away with the show and nothign is done. It's just like F1 (up until this year, now it's exciting to watch) Don't bother watchign the race, you already know where everyone will end up.
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I'm as big of a critic as anybody when it comes to a lot of the direction that NASCAR has taken, but I believe that Jimmie Johnson would easily have at least 2 or 3 titles right now regardless of the chase. Jeff Gordon really did get robbed in 2007, but the 48 team has mastered getting it right when it counts, and surely they have the ability to be #1 when they gotta be on their game the entire season.
When it comes to Toyota's engines, they used some engineering tricks to lower the center of gravity of the car and get more power out of their engines. NASCAR approved of ALL of the engines that Toyota tried to get approved. NASCAR did NOT approve when other manufacturers tried to use the same tricks to keep up. THAT is why NASCAR restricted Toyota, because they wouldn't give the other manufacturers the opportunity to utilize the same technology. Toyota was barely restricted anyway... they still make the most power.
When it comes to Hendrick, NASCAR impounded the 5 & the 48 for the last bunch of races in the season. They never even looked at the 42 when Juan Montoya was digging. They were trying their hardest to find something wrong with Hendrick's cars, and they couldn't find it.
NASCAR's anything but fair and consistent, but there certainly isn't any favoritism towards Hendrick, and there certainly isn't any bias against Toyota. If anything, Toyota has it made, and their teams haven't capitalized yet on the Cup level when it comes to winning the championship.