The car of tomorrow was a knee jerk to Earnhardt's death. It also presumed that equalized aero-packages would create racing parity and fan excitement. What instead took place was cookie cutter cars in boring races run on cookie-cutter tracks. The HP is easily controlled via displacement limits; controlling the HP raises the safety bar without stupid gadgets like restrictor plates. Remember when Million Dollar Bill had a dominant car, or when Jeff Gordon, Dale Jarrett, Ironhead or DW ran away with seasons because their crew chief came up with something no one else had copied, yet? Those were AWESOME years in NASCAR.
Very few night races make sense. I'd buy off on the July Daytona event due to the heat... my wife got heatstroke at a Firecracker 400, years ago. And maybe the night races at Bristol and Richmond which have historical precedent. But no MORE! NASCAR was a family sport and the kids packed the stands along with their NASCAR DAD's who created the next generation of fans from an early age, on. If you go to the night races in Darlington or Charlotte, you see almost no children, just a bunch of rowdy, sloppy drunks.
I am not so adamant on your point regarding "foreign" makes since so many of them are made in the U.S., today. If NASCAR returned to its roots of fielding largely showroom stockcar racing grids, I could care less if that included even BMW's, as long as the model was made in the USA. Now that would put some patriotic focus back into the sport since few people know how many "domestic" makes actually come from Mexico, Canada or Germany. My neighbor drives a Buick that was made in Germany by Opel.
Thanks for your insight and your opinions.
