[media-credit name=”Credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty Images for NASCAR” align=”alignright” width=”249″][/media-credit]It is time to stop accepting that it’s “just plate racing” or “it’s just what you get at places like this” and start doing something about it.

“There is no right way to do what we do out there. And there is no wrong way to do it other than being the one that runs out of talent. I can’t even say that my teammate (Tony Stewart) ran out of talent. He was just doing everything he could to protect himself. And so it’s a different kind of racing, if they call it that.” Ryan Newman said after the race.

Talladega and Daytona is not racing! Both are a product of NASCAR misguided way to solve safety issues that have just created a big pile of BS, just like the 20+ cars were on Sunday.  Parity is not always a good thing.  Drivers need to be able to separate themselves from each other.  Too many rules and regulations.  The yellow line rule is just another simple example of too many rules and things have gone bad.  That rule only places the drivers in a smaller box.  If you don’t want them to drive there, don’t pave it!

As Dale Earnhardt Jr. said after the race, “If this is what we did every week I wouldn’t be doing it I will just put it to you like that. If this is how we raced every week I would find another job.”

Did you find this exciting? Earnhardt Jr. did not. “Really? It’s not safe. Wrecking like that is ridiculous. It’s blood-thirsty if that is what people want. It’s ridiculous.”

Greg Biffle’s view of the entire event sounds cool. But what a different story it would have been if someone was hurt or even killed? This is not a movie or a reality show…. It’s real, with real consequences. Wake up NASCAR!

“If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me. Unbelievable. I was probably 20th and five-wide up against the wall and then cars started wrecking. A car flew over the top of my car as I turned to the bottom and missed guys by three inches. It was like Days of Thunder coming through the smoke and the grass and just kept it going straight. That’s all I did and once I was clear of all the stuff I kept going to the start-finish line, but it was the craziest thing I’ve ever been involved in, in my life.” Biffle said.

Rant, chant, ask for Harry Gant… we can’t keep going in this same direction. This has to end.

“It’s really not racing. I don’t know it’s a little disappointing how that all went down. That cost a lot of money right there. If this is how we are going to race and that is how we are going to continue to race and nothing is going to change I think NASCAR should build the cars. It would save us a lot of money.” Earnhardt Jr. said.

This is precisely what would solve the issue and very quickly. What do you think NASCAR would do if they had to fork out the money to build these cars for restrictor plate racing and then bring home nothing but scrap metal? It wouldn’t be long before changes were made. If the bottom line was red, things would change!

Right now they are the benefactor of presenting the “Great American Race” or the so called “wildcard race”. For now, the best nicknames should be, “Scrap metal of the south”.

A good commercial could be, “Come and see whose Sprint Cup Series Championship chances end and maybe their life to”.

Fell free to comment below.  I’d really like to hear the difference of opinions.