Has NASCAR found the cure for its ills?


The basic plot of the 2009 NASCAR Racing season was one filled with falling attendance, poor TV ratings, and a step back for a sport that once looked to be ready to take on all comers save the NFL. Fans were unhappy with the new version of the NASCAR race car, bored with the dominance of four time champion Jimmie Johnson, and finding other ways to spend their Sunday afternoons. Now with Danica Patrick running in their second tier Nationwide Series, and several very close exciting races in the lead up to the Daytona 500, it seems that NASCAR has fixed some of the things that were wrong.

There have been several rule changes for the 2010 NASCAR season. The most important of which has not even happened yet. It seems NASCAR will do away with the wing on the back of their COT car platform, and go back to a more traditional looking car with a spoiler on the rear end. They have tweaked the aero dynamics for the cars for the Daytona race, and given the cars a bigger restrictor plate.

The net effect of those changes has been several closely contested, races in Speed weeks, the collection of races leading up the season opening Daytona 500. On Thursday the two Daytona 500 qualifying races were each one by a combined distance of less than three feet. The racing has been fast and furious, Danica mania has hit NASCAR, and fans are flocking back to the sport.

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