Has Nascar's "new" rules and procedures opened up an era of "wreckfest"?

I've made a total of about 81 cars from when Bud Shootout practice began Thursday last week to 9:04 p.m. tonight. Crazy right? PS this includes the ARCA race.

Yes, they can bump draft in the corners now and Nascar won't step in. Don't get me wrong I love to see big wrecks as long as every one walks away from it. If Daytona and Talledega didn't have the threat of the "Big One" the race would just be another boring race, The "Big One" for me is what I like to wait for on these 2 tracks, and I am glad Nascar is stepping back and letting the drivers "police" themselves. Besides Nascar needs some retaliation, I mean look at Bristol, or Martinsville, it is fun to see two drivers get mad at each other during the race, and start to beat and bang on each other. With all the rule changes and this boring COT car they needed to do something to make it interesting and more entertaining again.

you haven't been watching nascar for very long have you, Daytona and Talladega are wreckfests, thay have been like that for 50 years now. there has been big ones on the first lap, midway, last lap, on any given lap there can be the big one, and the reason why they said go ahead and bump draft is because they won't need to bump draft as much because of the bigger restrictor plate, more power less need. and this sport needs excitement, not wrecks as much, but more fire from the drivers like years past. and i believe that this year, nascar will return to its roots

From what I have seen, Id have to say no. Most of the wrecks havent been from anything that Nascar has done. Denny wrecked Mark at practice and it was clearly his fault, and that was at practice. From the NNS today it seemed bad judgement on the drivers part caused the wrecks, not the new rules.

No. This is Daytona. No matter what car package they run or what rules they put in place there are always wrecks like this. Especially in the Nationwide and Truck series where there are more inexperienced drivers. Dillon losing control in the middle lane had nothing to do with the new rules. It had to do with him not knowing what he's doing out there.

Well the fans asked for it. I like all out racing, but this is just plate racing its just not as good as it was back in the day. You are going to get crashes like this on the the plate tracks but these cars are a lot safer today than they use to be. I love all out tradin' paint, but crashfest or wreckfast thats just no good. But theres fans that love this stuff. Give me a 1/2 mile any day.

Go Dale Jr..Bring it on in 2010

Daytona, Talladega, and restrictor plates = multicar wrecks. Been that way since Nascar decided to use the plate.

It's the nature of the beast.

This is Daytona. Same with Talladega.

They run so close together that all someone has to do is fart and there you go. You've got another "big one".

To quote Dale Earnhardt Jr, "Apparently So"