What's better, "New" NASCAR or "Old" NASCAR?

OLD NASCAR

better trading paint, better fights, they could do what they wanted to and they fought harder for the lead and not to go a lap down, enough of this moving over to let the lead car go by, fck that, fight for those laps your going to loose!

even though I am not old enough to remember i have seen clips from back in the day and it was more exciting but i still love my nascar and my tony stewart

I prefer the grassroots racing, there were fewer rules and the racing in my opinion was much better. On the otherhand at the speeds the cars run at today driver safety would be greatly compromised under the grassroots rules. I feel under the new NASCAR to many rules have restricted both drivers and cars. If NASCAR were to back off on the rules, let the teams be a little creative with what they can do with the cars and loosen the reins on the drivers a little there would be a good compromise between the old and new and we could get back to some good racing. As far as reaching out internationally there is nothing wrong with that, I just don't want NASCAR to fall the way of F-1 or IRL and become a sport where a few teams with lots of money and resources are the only competitve teams. NASCAR is already leaning in that direction and it needs to be reversed.

No, I don't like how they are reaching out internationally, I don't care for the COT, or artificially leveled "playing fields". I long for the guts and glory years of NASCAR, the blue collar drivers with a ton of passion for the sport. There's only a few left out there now. The homogenization of auto racing is almost complete. Too young drivers, too little experience, no more David Pearsons, or Cale Y. or the Allison Brothers. I joined NASCAR as a local driver in the 60's, became a car owner/builder in the seventies. I've seen a lot of drivers and owners come and go. I just watch now, but from a vantage point of having been involved for decades. They're not making Dale Sr.s any more, or the others I've mentioned. Just my opinion.

Well I didn't start watching NASCAR until long after Dale was gone. But I've seen tapes of the races from the 70s and 80s and it was better than the stuff today. Now the racing seems better than last season's, but it's still early. I like plate racing now better though. Remember Daytona? They were all stuck in a pack most of the day. In recent years Daytona would get strung out. In 2006 in the July Busch race Dale Jr. got out to a 10 second lead on his own. If you had a fast car you could leave the pack. With the COT no matter how fast your car is, you can't go anywhere. But intermediate and short track racing has been real crappy compared to the days when Dale Sr. was around.

Hey, cool, someone with the same question I've had for eons! Too often I hear of the better drivers, "He wants it more." Phooey! They all want to win. I'd sure like more detail, but what I've seen is (a) they're just naturally very adept at working the car on the road and intuitively doing all the things they need to use their car to work best. Related to that is (b) they really know the car and all the technology about it, so much so that their communication with their teams about how good the car is at different points in the race really helps the team do a good job making the car itself as good as it can be. And related to that is (c) the team. Jimmie Johnson is a fine driver, don't get me wrong, but he's got the best damn crew chief and racing team, probably in the history of the sport. Chad Knaus' attention to detail is unparalled, and that makes all the difference in the world. Literally, a couple of milliseconds is a huge difference!

I consider myself lucky to have been around for the great good old days of Nascar, Lee Petty & Richard Petty, The Flock Brothers, Curtis Turner, Fireball Roberts, Marvin Panch, Buck and Buddy Baker, David Pearson, Fred Lorenzen, Allisons, Cale Yarbrough, then came DW and Dale Sr. I remember we all would gather around the radio in the back yard have a BBQ and home made Peach Ice Cream and listen to the races, they weren't on TV back then. Nascar has come a long way, but I still prefer the grassroot southern good ole boy style of racing. But Nascar grew up and became Na$car, but then all sports are about money these days. To me it was just more fun back in the day.

Go Dale Jr..Bring it on in 2010

"Old" NASCAR was great because you could go out Monday and buy Talladega torino or an Impala, or a challenger, and it was fast and built the same as Sundays race winner, unfortunately this inspired many road races and many injuries. NASCAR has been great improving track and car safety and has worked hard over the decades to promote the sport.

The "New" NASCAR with the COT car is safer but NASCAR has hurt its self by trying to level the playing field. They used certain teams to develop this "New" car which has given them a few years advantage on the those teams who were not involved in the design and build of the COT.

As far as seeing NASCAR go international. They have defined themselves as a "SHOW" and not an actual sport, and in recent years they have strived to add more "Drama" to their show.

I have been living in Canada since 2006 and have seen then Jaimie McMurry's Crown Royal car once, but in the stores they only sell HMS team gear and ignore those teams that are Canadian sponsored like Crown Royal. So right now Canadians would be more likely to watch curling on TV over NASCAR.

I like the expansion, but I do think they've gone a bit to far. Going to Canada is great, and trying Mexico worked for a few years, what I have a problem with is letting places like California have two races. They have never had many racefans, and one race a year would sell much better than either of the races now. They stepped over a line when "grassroots" old tracks were COMPLETELY removed in favour of new tracks outside of NASCAR's birthplace getting two dates. I think a middle ground needs to be found, because I like old and new NASCAR equaly, but I could like NASCAR even more if some older tracks took dates away form California, Michigan, Phoenix, Texas, or New Hampshire. All of which fall outside the birthplace of NASCAR if you ask me.

The new NASCAR is bad because of all the corporate influence and money. In the old days it seemed like drivers were allowed to drive and compete. You can have single car owner drivers winning races and championships.

These days it seems like only "politically correct" drivers are allowed to win races and championships, if a driver that does not meet the criteria for NA$CAR is going to win then it seems like they will throw a "phantom caution" and manipulate the race.

I wish NASCAR was not so easily manipulted by corporate America.

Just my honest and humble opinion....

I think it had no choice but to evolve because

of it's growth. I actually like a lot about the

new Nascar, but then again I grew up in

New England. I do think that Nascar is

trying to find the middle ground. That

suits me fine if they get there.