[Quality88]

Originally Posted by saltysenior

good idea! ,,,but they cut up most of the '39 fords

Yeah.... that is very sad..... what a shame

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by BiscuitMan

This might be a good move by NASCAR. That is to get rid of the Craftsman Truck Series. There might be good competitive races in the CTS, but they don't look like race "cars". They are supposed to be trucks. They don't even look like trucks I see in the show room.

I disagree with it maybe being a "good move." Maybe a good move for Jim France because he needs to gen up some interest in the Rolex Series. But, in the USA sports car racing is a "niche" sport. It has never enjoyed a wide base of interest. This is one of the reason CART rubbed so many people the wrong way; they viewed the CART love of road courses as being an offshoot of sports car racing.

Speaking only for myself, I don't see any future in copying what is popular in Europe, or the rest of the world. We're the USA and we are different. What is wrong with oval tracks and trucks? The French might not especially dig it, but a lot of Americans do.

As far as what we see in the showrooms, the trucks in CTS look a lot more like what we see in the showrooms than the Rolex race cars do, unless you hang out in Lamborghini and Ferrari showrooms

Originally Posted by BiscuitMan

So, dumping the CTS and replacing it with Grand Am "cars" would be a good move. The Grand Am races I been to at VIR and have watched on TV are very competitive. Their cars are not showroom cars from auto makers. They are full bodied sports car. Their chassis are much like that of a IRL car with a rear engine configuration. They race on road courses and give a different perspective that the Cup and Nationwide series races.

I agree. The Rolex/Grand Am have some good races, often better than what Cup produces. But CTS and Grand Am are two different types of racing. If road racing is your thing, then Grand Am would probably be good for you. I, personally, much prefer American oval racing.

Originally Posted by BiscuitMan

I think we can come to enjoy Grand Am races mainly because it not on the same venue as Cup and Nationwide races.

Which is why I watch it occasionally. This is also the very reason I prefer CTS over Cup and Cup Lite.

I guess if NA__AR gets their marketing machine fully behind Grand Am a lot of people will buy into it. I probably won't, but then that's just me.

But it will be interersting to watch and see what NA__AR/ISC does with their new (actually this all went down back in January, I believe?) toy.

[jks812]

I hope they don't get rid of the CTS. I don't care if I can't go to a showroom and see a truck just like them. I can go look at any of the brands racing in cup and they don't look like the cup cars. But I don't think they should do away with the cup series.
I'm another one that wouldn't be interested in Grand Am series. I don't like road courses that much.
I wish they would just leave the trucks alone. They are the best racing of the weekend. Maybe thats why they want them gone.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by jks812

I wish they would just leave the trucks alone. They are the best racing of the weekend. Maybe thats why they want them gone.

You just answered it all with that middle sentence.... They will kill it because it produces the best racin, and they can't have the cup series be out done.

[BringBackWilkesboro]

Originally Posted by Quality88

You just answered it all with that middle sentence.... They will kill it because it produces the best racin, and they can't have the cup series be out done.

As Hank Hill would say; Yup. It's sad that even with the state the Cup series is in, so many people say it's the truck series that's broken, and that they don't care to hear why that's inaccurate.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by BringBackWilkesboro

As Hank Hill would say; Yup. It's sad that even with the state the Cup series is in, so many people say it's the truck series that's broken, and that they don't care to hear why that's inaccurate.

It isn't the truck series that's broke. It's whoever decides that if a series doesn't have the Cup marquee drivers in it then it just isn't "interesting." I'll leave up to you to decide who the person who makes that decision is. But THAT's where the break is , in my opinion.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

It isn't the truck series that's broke. It's whoever decides that if a series doesn't have the Cup marquee drivers in it then it just isn't "interesting." I'll leave up to you to decide who the person who makes that decision is. But THAT's where the break is , in my opinion.

I believe that is what BBW stated in a round-a-bout way Bob.