This is how it should be, a simple valance front end that doesn't need to be flush all the time in order for the car to drive properly. Yet even the next-gen car will have a splitter. Why this obsession with the splitter I just don't understand.

From what NASCAR has said, they are going with a splitter again because they determined that (with the knowledge teams have about aero nowadays compared to how the cars used to be 20 years ago), the splitter turns out to be less aero-sensitive than the valence. The next gen car will have a two step splitter that's raised through the entire center section so they won't be able to seal the nose off against the ground like the current splitter too, so hopefully that helps with the aero sensitivity as well.

What a sign of the times when the percentage of airbornez is more than 0 and we aren’t past the first page.

Yea, curious to see how that raised in the middle splitter works out. But of course, I only mentioned the splitter because that's where it all starts. The other half of the problem is the are the big rear quarter panels that extend almost all the way down to the ground and generate huge sideforce that keep the cars so well planted when running by themselves but work against the driver when he's inside another car in the turns. And the huge rear bumpers too.