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    As they increase the banking with new smooth blacktop they have made the racing easy, simple, bulletproof. But they know better than everyone else.......they listen to the drivers, and the drivers want things easy. Now it might be more interesting to make racing hard, make it more like work, make it difficult, make is slippery......they have gone the opposite way and it's almost slot car racing anymore.

    And throwing a yellow to bunch up the field is something they got called on over the last decade, no one wanted to see it.....well obviously almost no one.
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    Newer fans do.

    Fans pulled in by the Marketing Machine.

    Led to believe that every race would have cars flipping and 9 cars coming off turn 4 on the last lap all racing for the win.

    I blame Brian France for promising "more Game 7 moments"

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevMcNJ View Post
    Newer fans do.

    Fans pulled in by the Marketing Machine.

    Led to believe that every race would have cars flipping and 9 cars coming off turn 4 on the last lap all racing for the win.

    I blame Brian France for promising "more Game 7 moments"

    Hes done more damage to racing in America than NIMBYs and the EPA
    10 times more.

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    It's not just racing....I do believe a contributing factor is the general shortening of the public's attention span. Instant gratification is the word.
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    Not me. Im tired of all the yellows now. I hate the "phantom" debris yellows they throw just to bunch em up again. I would rather see green flag racing. Yellow flag racing is boring.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakester View Post
    It's not just racing....I do believe a contributing factor is the general shortening of the public's attention span. Instant gratification is the word.
    Nah, today is the day of "blame the other guy."

    No one to blame when there're no yellows outside of your driver and your team.

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    Funny how Dover had 500 mile marathons 20 years ago with green flag segments that lasted 100, 200 even 250 laps.

    And they had to add more seats every Winter

    Might as well have Bigfoot run over some junk cars for 2 hours then have a 20 lap feature race if thats their idea of a logical solution

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevMcNJ View Post
    Funny how Dover had 500 mile marathons 20 years ago with green flag segments that lasted 100, 200 even 250 laps.

    And they had to add more seats every Winter

    Might as well have Bigfoot run over some junk cars for 2 hours then have a 20 lap feature race if thats their idea of a logical solution
    1971 Mason-Dixon 500, 500 green flag laps......I was there. It was cool, though we did bake in a hot summer sun......them was the days.

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