It actually does the opposite. It creates less strategy. On road courses if you have the lead or top 10 you race to the stage then pit. Some cars might pit early to undercut a car or two, but that really only gives them a position or two that they end up losing. With Stage Cautions lead cars now have to make a choice, points or position. Then if they stop early for position then that same question falls to every car before them.

Go back to H pattern transmissions, it wasn’t a problem before.

they have tried that many times and how is that going?

constructive criticism instead of just flat out saying “no”? in the nascar community? this is ridiculous!

@RJ TwentySix it is on the business to properly decipher the customers’ needs. The fans are not the ones responsible for NASCAR making changes, often at a whim, because it cannot translate its customers’ needs.

“Just like they did about boring championships before ’04.” This comment shows just how clueless you truly are in the oft-regurgitated and inaccurate “fans are bad!!!!” comments from NASCAR’s ardent defenders like yourself. Fans prior to 2004, especially after Newman won 8 races in 03 and couldn’t sniff the championship, wanted one thing: wins to be worth far more points than they were. Prior to 2004, you could win but only tie 2nd place in points gained if 2nd place led the most laps. Fans wanted anywhere from 10 to 50 more points for winning.

NASCAR capitulated in 2004 and gave the winner a whopping 5 extra points – almost nothing in the Latford era – and then also completely overhauled the points format with the Chase, which nobody except NASCAR itself wanted.

Also yeah while I don’t mind stages, it’ll be much easier to watch NASCAR without those competition cautions at the end of the stages as it could cause the race to get exhaustingly long, plus without set cautions it encourages different strategies from every teams on tires and fuel management.

@Mike loves drawing but all the diffuser is doing is making them even easier to drive and the dirty air worse when directly behind someone, as it makes the wake stronger but narrower (which is why 1.5 mile tracks are good, and single groove tracks bad )!