All*Star races are for All Stars!
Most of you have seen or heard or read my opinions on what, happened with the fan vote of getting into the All*Star race meant on Saturday. I didn't talk about this yesterday well because I was psyched about what I had seen and experienced on Saturday night. But I feel like ranting here and giving you guys an opinion about something.
Martin Truex, for what his car and team were on Saturday night weren't much more than glorified field fillers, picking up information, and more importantly cash for DEI on Saturday night. Before you guys go flying off look at some facts. The All*Star race paid about as much to start as any normal Cup event does, somewhere in the 70,000 dollar range. That sure isn't a raw deal for only running 90 laps of competition. Why else would teams enter cars, like the one entered for Boris Said, if 1. they weren't there to try to gain experience in the series, 2. earn some cash that doesn't involve all the hustle and length of a normal Cup show, and 3. why wouldn't a team enter a car so they can gain valuable notes for the Coca Cola 600. All three of those things aren't the right reasons to have a car entered into an event that is supposed to be about stars now is it? So why was he allowed to race? Well because Jr Nation and Truex Nation felt the need that Martin had some unforseen talent and deserved a chance at the All*Star event before he entered his first full season in the Cup series. Why? Because they Front loaded his schedule with races to make sure that he could be in the top 50 in points and almost be a lock to win the Fan vote.
Unfortunately, most NASCAR fans aren't that upset with the deal, because well the majority voted for Martin to be in the show in the first place, so why be upset about it? Well to have a guy who is in the AAA series come and be apart of the Major League All*Star event it just doesn't make sense now does it. So what did NASCAR do wrong? First off by allowing the top 50 to be eligible they open themselves up to too many part time teams with nothing more than the intent to gain information for their respective teams. These cars become glorified field fillers, since well they may run well but they aren't running for points so if something breaks or something happens these teams load up and go home. Not the kinda thing anybody is used to in NASCAR.
But what can NASCAR do about preventing this from happening in a future All*Star event? Fortunately this type of deal I don't see happening again in the near future, Truex seems to have a legion of fans that closely resemble those that love his DEI counterpart Dale Earnhardt Jr. He has two things going to get him in already, the DEI connection and the fact that he is the Busch Series champ didn't hurt some people with their votes either, its just too bad that he ended up taking a spot from a deserving guy who coulda done a lil better than the 22nd place effort that Martin ended up turning in.
Martin Truex, for what his car and team were on Saturday night weren't much more than glorified field fillers, picking up information, and more importantly cash for DEI on Saturday night. Before you guys go flying off look at some facts. The All*Star race paid about as much to start as any normal Cup event does, somewhere in the 70,000 dollar range. That sure isn't a raw deal for only running 90 laps of competition. Why else would teams enter cars, like the one entered for Boris Said, if 1. they weren't there to try to gain experience in the series, 2. earn some cash that doesn't involve all the hustle and length of a normal Cup show, and 3. why wouldn't a team enter a car so they can gain valuable notes for the Coca Cola 600. All three of those things aren't the right reasons to have a car entered into an event that is supposed to be about stars now is it? So why was he allowed to race? Well because Jr Nation and Truex Nation felt the need that Martin had some unforseen talent and deserved a chance at the All*Star event before he entered his first full season in the Cup series. Why? Because they Front loaded his schedule with races to make sure that he could be in the top 50 in points and almost be a lock to win the Fan vote.
Unfortunately, most NASCAR fans aren't that upset with the deal, because well the majority voted for Martin to be in the show in the first place, so why be upset about it? Well to have a guy who is in the AAA series come and be apart of the Major League All*Star event it just doesn't make sense now does it. So what did NASCAR do wrong? First off by allowing the top 50 to be eligible they open themselves up to too many part time teams with nothing more than the intent to gain information for their respective teams. These cars become glorified field fillers, since well they may run well but they aren't running for points so if something breaks or something happens these teams load up and go home. Not the kinda thing anybody is used to in NASCAR.
But what can NASCAR do about preventing this from happening in a future All*Star event? Fortunately this type of deal I don't see happening again in the near future, Truex seems to have a legion of fans that closely resemble those that love his DEI counterpart Dale Earnhardt Jr. He has two things going to get him in already, the DEI connection and the fact that he is the Busch Series champ didn't hurt some people with their votes either, its just too bad that he ended up taking a spot from a deserving guy who coulda done a lil better than the 22nd place effort that Martin ended up turning in.
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