Does anybody else Hate rain shortened nascar races?
Really If its raining use the rain tires! its not hard i cant stand when they cut the races in half basically Joey Logano does not deserve that win!
and please notice the 88 car in the center of the picture.....coincidence???I think not 
I know I'd be hooked if I could watch a race from the Craven-mobile...especially if it were in sunny Fla.
The Craven-mobile is truly the best way to see a NASCAR race. Here are a couple of pics. You really have to be there though, to get the FULL experience.
Golf is probably the hardest sport there is and that I have ever played. It is the only sport where the ball doesn't move before it is hit. Hand-eye coordination is second to none. Watch Barkley hit the ball. 
Remember John Daly plays very infrequently and does not do well and hasn't for many a year. Out of shape and out of his mind. 
there needs to be a line drawn between sports and motorsports.
I wouldn't consider the farmer at my local tractor pull to be an athlete by any stretch.
I know I'd be hooked if I could watch a race from the Craven-mobile...especially if it were in sunny Fla.
Now golf, that is not a sport....if John Daly is an athlete, than so am I:-)
except the rain tire theory. Rooster tails are there b/c of open wheels and the tracks are lite so where is the problem there?
Racing on rain tires will separate the men from the boys. It takes great skill to race on wet surfaces. Let the best driver win regardless of wet or dry conditions or surfaces.
The only NASCAR tracks it would make sense to run in the rain would be Suzuka, Sonoma, or Watkins Glen. Not only would rain racing on an oval be boring at the low speeds; cost, and safety are issues. NASCAR cars are designed to run on dry surfaces. Smooth tires offer more surface area in contact with the track and are much safer than grooved tires in most NASCAR events. Anyone familiar with F-1 or Indycar rain racing has seen the rooster tails of water behind each car. I don't believe F-1 races on any ovals. Indycar does not race in the rain on ovals. Imagine in a NASCAR race you are the 42nd car with no headlights during a night race in the rain. You are following the rooster tails of 41 other cars. I don't think this would work to well, but could be a great sponsorship opportunity for Rain-ex....
With that being said, I don't like the rain shortened races either and believe they should be completed as soon as weather and track conditions permit.
As for not being a sport.....PHOOEY. Anyone here ever driven a car amongst 42 others at high rates of speed for 3-4 hours? Or, changed 4 tires, fueled, and adjusted suspension in 14 seconds? It takes more out of you than any baseball, golf, swimming, or bowling event. The workout regimen and physical fitness required by the pit crews and drivers to endure the nearly 10 month season is comparable only to hockey. A successful NASCAR team requires heart, intelligence, fitness, competiveness, skill, courage, teamwork, strategy, and dedication. How could you not consider it a sport?
every year at least once and sometimes for both races. Being I was in the bar business BUD would give me 4 passes to the race, hospitality tent and super box seats. I have pics with me and JR. together and have meet him 6 times when he drove for them.
The first race after 9/11 was the Dover race and they gave every person their a flag and JR. won the race and drove around the track with an American flag instead of the checkered flag. Brought tears to my eyes seeing 100,000 people waving their flags.
It is a sport. You have to be in great condition to drive all those hours at top speed with 42 other crazy people wanting to beat you.
My earlier post was only in jest....many of my family and good friends have number decals on their trucks:-)
I don't follow the sport, however I do appreciate the races that are televised during prime-time. They must do better camera and sound work for these races. Also, must be a totally different experience to watch live.
For a moment of self-deprecation, my personal favorite sport, basketball, could be called the silliest of all sports when you really think about it.
Ok, get this, they start twelve cars in one direction and the other twelve in the other, twelve high, twelve low as they circle the track.
The risk and true skill in this would be in passing without causing a head on collision.
There would be two sets of pits, inside and outside pit areas as we wouldn’t want them all to get crushed in the first twenty laps of the race.
There would be no calling off the race for rain or any other weather related events as most people from the northern US have driven in blizzards and most people down south have driven in torrential down pours if not hurricane conditions.
So, if these guys are ‘Athletes and Pro’s” they should be able to drive in anything Mother Nature has to throw at them.
As Larry stated earlier, they just need to change their tires and install the other necessities they would need that every other driver in the US has learned to drive with.
Now the only thing that might hold these guys back is learning to turn their steering wheel in both directions.
So given the very basic rules above, it should be easy to launch NASCAR as a true sport.
And you never know, every once in a while the races might just end up as a true “Demolition Derby.”
Nascar is pathetic plain and simple. They are not athletes... just overpaid endorsement riders. 
Its better then Nascar, , but then again, checking cows for ring worm was better then watching Nascar.
I believe what you are searching for is already an official sport... it's called smash up derby.
I have family who are into Nascar and they are always trying to get me into it, but I tell them, If they want to make Nascar a true sport and worth watching, they would start 12 cars in one direction and 12 cars in the other, NOW THAT I WOULD WATCH !!!!!!!!!
...and so do our hillclimbs. If I recall correctly the Indy Racing League has provisions for rain tires at road courses(???)
and they call it a win after 5 innings,they call it a sport. Nascar is a competition and I feel all cars should switch over to rain tires like formula 1 racing. Just add wipers and they would be ready to go.
...let them continue through rain, snow, sleet or hail.
The races would actually be intersting then
should have postponed it!
the pocono race was postponed due to rain and I actually watched it on ESPN last night in between counting sheep. It is definately a team sport with much intensity and competition.