There are some new rules for NASCAR this year. Except for at the four restrictor track races, NASCAR will implement group qualifying. Five cars at a time will go out and run three or four laps, and each cars fastest lap will be their qualifying lap.
The rules for the chase have also been modified....again. When the chase format was first adopted, 10 drivers made the Chase. Then NASCAR decided to expand it to 12. Then last season they had 13 drivers in the Chase. This year 16 drivers will quailfy for the chase. Hells bells in a couple of years it will probably be up to 20 drivers. The Chase will now be more like a playoff. After the first three Chase races, the bottom four drivers in the Chase will be eliminated. Four more after the sixth race and four more after the ninth. That will leave four drivers eligible to win the championship. The final race at Homestead will determine the champion. You know this format could be interesting if they would move the final race to a different track. Homestead is BORING! The race would have to be at a warm weather track because of the November weather. So that could be Fontana, Phoenix or Las Vegas. However NASCAR is not gonna want to end the season out west. Besides, Fontana and Vegas are just as boring as Homestead. So that would leave Daytona. How awesome would it be to have the first race of the season at Daytona and the last at Daytona. I doubt the drivers would like it but the fans sure would. And if it weren't for the fans there would be no drivers.
Okay for those of you who are new readers of Somewhatrednecks, I started a tradition of writing and recording song parodys to celebrate all that is NASCAR. So in keeping with tradition I have a new song to start the new race season, and as has become the norm, it is about Dale Junior. He is my muse. I hope you enjoy
