[PettyBlue]

Read the text at the top.If Bill E. had chosen to race then the Wood's make the race.They need the champ prov. more than K. Petty at this time to get in the top 35.Do you see and or agree?

[LSC9901]

Yes I did see that and I agree. I was focusing on the actual numbers that were shown for 9th & 11th.

How is it that he can just change his mind or do you think they may have agreed that they wanted him more at Martinsville ?

[PettyBlue]

Wood's need every point they can get in the first 5 races,NOW!

[bob101]

Why is everyone concerned about the Wood brothers? I mean I'm sure they are nice people. But if they want to keep racing NASCAR they need to make a comittment not this half way stuff they are doing now.

I like Leonard Wood. But I really can't feel sorry for them when they can't even get a full time devoted to the team driver in the car. Every week it's play guess who is driving the car this week.

Your not going to be succesful in today's NASCAR like that. This isn't 1965.

[PettyBlue]

Originally Posted by bob101

Why is everyone concerned about the Wood brothers? I mean I'm sure they are nice people. But if they want to keep racing NASCAR they need to make a comittment not this half way stuff they are doing now.

I like Leonard Wood. But I really can't feel sorry for them when they can't even get a full time devoted to the team driver in the car. Every week it's play guess who is driving the car this week.

Your not going to be succesful in today's NASCAR like that. This isn't 1965.

Because I like the people that started and built Nascar to what it is today!

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by PettyBlue

Because I like the people that started and built Nascar to what it is today!

AMEN!......

[bob101]

Well they should have kept up then.

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by bob101

Why is everyone concerned about the Wood brothers?

Probably for the same reason that Petty Blue likes Petty Enterprises, the same reason that Quality 88 and Team Yates are Yates fans, the same reason that PenelopePitStop likes Tony Stewart & Jr.

We all have personal favorites and we want them to do well every week, no matter who drives. The woods Brothers Racing team has been around for 58 years now. Yes teams do fail but isn't it OK for those that care to be concerned and wonder why ????

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by bob101

Well they should have kept up then.

.... and Dale Earnhardt should have driven with more care. We can't always control the future.

[Phils20]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

.... and Dale Earnhardt should have driven with more care. We can't always control the future.

Oh no you didn't!

DEFCON one if effect! Everyone to the shelters, now!

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Phils20

Oh no you didn't!

DEFCON one if effect! Everyone to the shelters, now!

It's OK Phil. This is more about allowing members to show concern for the Woods Brothers without having to explain why !!!

[Phils20]

Very true! This place is about opinions! I also have a soft spot for those that built the sport.

Personally, I think these teams have just sunk even further with the top35 rule.

In my opinion, we don't really know what these teams can do, but Bob T already made that point quite clear. The non top 35 are behind the 8 ball to begin with. They practically start the race a lap down, with the fact they have to worry about a qualifying set up. It's just a hole they can never dig out of.

To simply say "they should have kept up then" is, to me, to lose sight of what made this sport what it is.

It wasn't about the snooty, nose in the air, elite drivers and teams. But it sure is now.

Like a lot of others, if I'm trapped in the past , or expect things to be fair, then let me be stuck. I'm happy there!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by bob101

Well they should have kept up then.

"Should?" Well, I guess that kind of defines the difference between sports and big business. "Keep up or get the Hell out." Too much like the '80's and '90's mantra, "What have you done for me TODAY?" for my personal liking.

Somehow I just don't get the kick out of watching big business that I do watching real sports. Maybe this thing we call NA__AR today is more like watching a bunch of career-conscious weenies in a board room jockey for position on the corporate ladder, than it is watching honest-to-goodness automobile racing?

But I could be very, very wrong...

[DOF_power]

I wonder if in 60s and 70s it wasn't the same "this ain't 1949" anymore mentality ?!
I know the Woods were THE ones ahead of the pack with their quick pit stops against the 49er pit-stop brigade in 65.
Thing is I doubt it matters so much about big business as it is simply out of touch with an ever changing world.

[bears9]

I'm not actually that against the Rain Out rule, the overall top 35, yes I don't like that. But how else are you going to do it with quailfying rained out?