Well... Look on the brightside... Since the new car is such a pile of shit with the rearward impact, adding more power, which in turn would lead to faster lap times and harder crashes, would be a bad thing.

So, instead of fixing the car to actually crumble and not transfer the load to the driver, NASCAR has decided to slow the cars down. The change is of course to generate more "show" and "save money" and not on safety grounds, but hey, why sell only one dumb idea when you can package it at a discount and sell multiple.

Grooved tires... Fuck it, just give them DOT rubber. Goodyear builds Z rated tires. Slap those on there. Has the added benefit of being able to race in the rain without a tire change.

I loved NASCAR so much 20-25 years ago... Now I don't even recognize it. NASCAR is a tremendous example of leadership not knowing how to operate the business they inherited. All the more amazing since right across the aisle, IMSA is showing them how it's to be done. Not that IMSA doesn't have it's own issues, but they're on the cusp of enjoying a second golden age of big time road racing and giving the fans pretty much what they want. Multiple factory prototypes, multiple factory GT3's, all duking it out on the grandest stages.

This is the Split in reverse, just without the actual Split. Indycars fall was met with NASCAR's rise... Now it's NASCAR on the fall. Indycar, your time is now to strike, so you too stop making stupid decisions. You have an opportunity here to claw back plenty of market share if you just go back to what always worked.

Dennis loses 25 driver points and $50k for actions detrimental to NASCAR.

Those Hendrik penalties don't mean a lot since there are play-offs. The 10 point penalty is the only thing that might play a part.