Should NASCAR have cancelled Saturday?

NASCAR had an unprecedented thought on Saturday night, cancelling, and cutting shot a race because of an unacceptable tire and racetrack surface combination. A perfect opportunity to call the race would have come at lap 200, and telling teams the race would have been shorted to lap 250 would have given plenty of teams time to prepare for a proper end of a race.

Sadly NASCAR did what it usually does, claiming the show must go on, no matter how sad, or how dangerous it is for competitors. It seems these days that NASCAR has become all about butts in the seats and butts infront of their TV's and less about the competitors and the teams that put on the show every week. Call me crazy but I don't think NASCAR really cared about the putting driver's lives on the line in a track they deem safe to race on, more about making sure that the people watching the event got the best of their money.

With too much evidence showing there would be problems on Friday night, and the problems evident early Saturday, NASCAR's management should have done something that would have saved teams money and still provided a decent show for the fans. NASCAR is supposed to have certain requirements for track surface, and track preparation, and I feel those requirements weren't met and NASCAR should have restricted the length of the race or called the race off.

Its kinda like Indy in June, F1 had bunches of options, but puts on a horrible show with 6 cars... atleast no equipment was destroyed in that race, unlike the carnage of Saturday.

NASCAR, the ball was in your court and you fumbled, and as a fan and a NASCAR member I feel dissapointed that I had to watch that on Saturday, because it was atrocious.