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After racing at Bowman Gray and getting taken out on lap one with about 12 other Legend Cars, and seeing the most boring Mod race ever. I agree it's got nothing to do with REAL RACIN. Also the fans are some of the worst in motorsports, throw in that I watched a probably 12 y/o girl take a shit one row down in front of me.

After racing at Bowman Gray and getting taken out on lap one with about 12 other Legend Cars, and seeing the most boring Mod race ever. I agree it's got nothing to do with REAL RACIN. Also the fans are some of the worst in motorsports, throw in that I watched a probably 12 y/o girl take a shit one row down in front of me.

I guess you haven't watched that interview he just did.

Honestly, no cars should ever race at Bowman Grey.

Ever.

NASCAR is close to revealing an engine package for the 2015 season that CEO Brian France hopes will increase lead changes, particularly on 1.5-mile tracks.

And senior vice president of racing operations Steve O'Donnell said Thursday at an Iowa Speedway Sponsor Summit that a final racing package won't be limited to a reduction of horsepower in engines.

"The whole package," O'Donnell said, affirming France's proclamation a few weeks ago that NASCAR would make "significant" changes as it enters a new TV contract with NBC. "Engines, downforce, aero and tires."

O'Donnell said in an interview with the Des Moines Register that NASCAR met with teams this past week as its Research & Development Center in Concord, N.C., to inform them of "the direction we're heading," and that stock-car racing's sanctioning body was in the process of finalizing the 2015 engine package. O'Donnell said a formal announcement would come before the May 17 Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Racing at 1.5-mile superspeedways can lack excitement at times, with a leader pulling away on a restart and having little obstacle in extending his gap on the pack. That's an area NASCAR wanted to examine early in the 2014 season with an eye on changes for 2015.

After viewing a small sample this season (at Las Vegas and Texas), O'Donnell termed 1.5-mile racing "better" but said, "We've still got work to do. Brian's talked about (wanting) more and more lead changes. That's the end goal."

To reach that goal, it appears NASCAR is taking a multi-pronged approach, not only in reducing engine power (currently at 850 horsepower in the premier Sprint Cup Series) but in its Goodyear tires.

"If you watched last year … 50 laps into a run, 10 laps to go, nobody pits for tires," O'Donnell said. "And if one guy did, it didn't matter. You think, 'Wait a minute, that's not right.' So tires are a big part of this as well in getting that all right."

O'Donnell provided a window Thursday at how NASCAR envisions the final package.

"If you combine the aero package with that (reduction of) horsepower (and) allow some aero changes with the engines going into the corner, drivers have to get off the gas and they're able to maneuver around a little bit more," O'Donnell said. "Combine that with Goodyear and a little softer tire, now you're able to move around a little bit more."

They want the 1.5 mile tracks to race like small restrictor plate tracks. They want more lead changes. NASCAR hangs it hat on the amount of lead changes at the plate tracks.

Never understood the thought process on how number of lead changes directly equates to awesome racing.

Huh. The only guy on that team who has actually won anything gets the boot.