[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by simple simon

now see i think we are all in agreement here......or atleast can find common ground

come up with a hard fast set of rules before the start of each season......then let the auto makers make their cars following those guidelines....after that you let the season go as it goes......no whining and moaning, no rules changes

if Ford (or whomever) makes a superior racecar by the letter of the law and wins every race then so be it........the rest better do better next year

yeah, i could live with that

...and, to show we are not alone in our general feelings about this article, I found this on the diecast-dude.com blog. This gentleman addresses some very good points.

From today's Die-cast Dude's blog:
Bringing this on is David Newton's latest epic on ESPN about the Car Of Yesterday Tomorrow. It looks like journalism, but it isn't. Rather, it is a single-sided puff piece, sucking up and sucking up hard. In the press release from NASCAR extolling the virtues of the COYT, masquerading as a column, Newton dismisses the complaints against the car without speaking to a single crew chief, car builder, engineer, or anyone else whose word carries weight about such matters. Fact is, he doesn't speak to anyone except Mike Fisher and Brett Bodine, both in NASCAR's employ with the primary function to shove the COYT down everyone's throats. In a separate column, Newton speaks to no one save Gary Newton, also in NASCAR's employ, tossing in a contrary comment by Kevin Harvick's crew chief Todd Berrier made not for the article in question, but in an interview conducted last fall.

Of course NASCAR's people are going to preach the party line. Of course they're going to dismiss all complaints lodged against the COYT. And of course the reader is going to be left feeling disrespected intelligence-wise. Presenting one side of a two-sided story is an insult to those expected to swallow whatever they're being fed wholesale.

But I'll be fair. At least Newton is consistent in his ineptitude when it comes to following fundamental journalistic practices...

Posted by Diecast Dude at 1/3/2007 8:10 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)

Some wonder that if we don't like the product NA$CAR is giving us, why bother to follow NASCAR. The above critique is a perfect example of why. We may not be "experts" in all matters NASCAR but we are experts in knowing what we like and what we don't like. There are a number of directions which NASCAR chooses to go which we don't like and, rather than meekly rolling over and accepting our fate and accept without recourse pieces of of obvious editorial ca-ca, such as Newton's aforementioned article written for ESPN, we voice our dissatisfaction. It may not be as effective as we'd like, and it might not be professionally written or especially eloquent. But, darn it, it represents what we fans feel and it's all we've got.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Some wonder that if we don't like the product NA$CAR is giving us, why bother to follow NASCAR. The above critique is a perfect example of why. We may not be "experts" in all matters NASCAR but we are experts in knowing what we like and what we don't like. There are a number of directions which NASCAR chooses to go which we don't like and, rather than meekly rolling over and accepting our fate and accept without recourse pieces of of obvious editorial ca-ca, such as Newton's aforementioned article written for ESPN, we voice our dissatisfaction. It may not be as effective as we'd like, and it might not be professionally written or especially eloquent. But, darn it, it represents what we fans feel and it's all we've got.

Damn Skippy