hendrick cars 2010

now that they have actually given me some NASCARs to paint on, I think it would only be fitting, and fun to start a league.
My garage the Next Level will have these cars painted up quickly, and we will have special prices for the members of our website.  Here is the link.
Get signed up and register for the league.  The website is only a day old, but I figure we have like 2 weeks to get it all figured out.
Like I said earlier, get signed up early, and we will be sure to have special pricing on these cars for the members of our site, as well as some website exclusive paint schemes.  Should be a blast!
Here are some of my Nascars that I had painted on pontiac GTO’s.  There is no limit to the people that sign up.  We can have as many groups as necessary.

Jason Philis is not unlike a bunch of NASCAR fans these days.

He’s been a fan of the sport for most of his life. Since he was about 3, he figures. And he’s got some issues with the way NASCAR is changing.
“Maybe I’m too much of an old school fan to appreciate this ‘better’ NASCAR, but I feel there has been a steady drop off of what made this sport great,” Philis wrote in an E-mail this week. “Drivers in their cars going 500 miles to prove who the better driver is. What happened to that?”
As Philis figures, with the new car styles and technological advances, the driver only has about 10% input into winning and the rest lies on the shoulders of technology and what happens back at the shop.
The new car design partially implemented last year, and fully in place this season, has a bit to do with that change.
However, ask any NASCAR star about driving these cars and they all say they’re working harder than ever to get around the track. In some ways, that’s actually been a throwback to the days when guys like Buddy Baker hurled cars around a speedway.
NASCAR’s thinking behind the COT was to eventually cut costs to teams and to also bring the competition closer, and ultimately – or allegedly – have better racing.
Part of that equation has worked.
Robby Gordon, a driver-owner, said earlier this week his team has run the same five cars for the last three months.
“We continue to build new inventory, build new cars, which are only better,” Gordon said, responding to a reporter’s question about next season’s budget. “And we do that throughout the season. So I can’t see any reason why next year would be a lot more money than it was this year to operate one of our cars.”
For an independent team, that’s a big deal. Huge. On that level the car has worked.
But, it’s also failed, too.
Gaston Gazette writer Monte Dutton wrote earlier this week that there’s a big difference between equal cars and equivalent cars. With equivalent cars, teams can adjust and improve the racing.
“By demanding that so much be all alike, NASCAR officials have diminished the quality of the racing,” wrote Dutton. “Generic cars have created generic races.”
Indeed, Sunday’s race at Pocono was far from a thrill-fest, and there have been plenty of complaints from fans this season that the COT has led to some boring races, no matter how many green-flag passes NASCAR has recorded.
Philis says he really misses the days when the cars on the track really looked like the cars on the road.
Yet, what troubles Philis is how rare it is for anyone outside of the big multi-car teams to win, and he fears that down the road there will be no one left but the big teams owning all the cars.
In fairness to NASCAR, it’s been a long time since a single-car team made a dent in the sport.
Whether the COT ultimately changes the ratio of multi-car teams to single-car teams won’t be known for some time.
“That’s not what I call fair and competitive racing,” Philis said of the current state of NASCAR. “Give all drivers the same range of equipment. Either make it affordable and available to all teams or restrict them from the big teams. Make it fair.”
Stock car racing is a long way from having that kind of level playing field, and probably never will. That worked with the IROC series on a limited basis, and that series is now dead.

And would we really want that in NASCAR?