So which is NASCAR supposed to reward, wins or consistancy?
Fans and drivers had been screaming for NASCAR to give more weight to wins, so this year they did. To what extent is debatable, but they did write it into the points structure this year.
I agree that Jeff Gordon has been (one of) the most consistent drivers this season. The numbers and his performance doesn’t lie. For that reason, some say that he should be given the Championship.
However, teammate Jimmie Johnson now has nine wins this season. The most wins in one season since Gordon got 13 wins during one of his Championship years. Some say for that reason, Johnson deserves the Championship.
As it sits now, Johnson has more wins, and the points lead. Therefore Johnson is just as deserving as anyone else to hoist that trophy at Homestead. If Jeff should recapture the points lead, and keep it until Homestead, then he should hoist the Cup.
Either driver is more deserving than Clint Bowyer, who has been consistent, but only has one win (it should have been two) to his credit. I Don’t mean to take anything from Bowyer. He’s done a fantastic job this year.
Anyway, I’m getting tired of hearing how the Cup got stolen from Gordon this year. Everyone knew the rules going into this season. It’s a done deal, and either way, we’ll have a repeat Champion.
What do you think?
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9 Comments
LUKE4HMS
Nov 07 2007 21:28
It is not over yet RAT!!!!:-)
How the heck are you?
havent seen you in a month of sundays!!LOL
LUKE4HMS
Nov 07 2007 21:26
Rules were set!!
If Jimmie is more consistant than JEFF in the last 2, he will win!!!
The best driver will win!!
wirerat123
Nov 07 2007 19:15
Haha
It’s not a rules thing, it’s a if Jeff Gordon and his team are so good, then tell me why they’ve slipped behind when it mattered the most? So we should reward them for not stepping up and winning more races? We punish Johnsons team for stepping up and going for wins by giving the trophy to Gordon?
The championship will go where it belongs at the end of the season.
wirerat123
Nov 07 2007 19:12
Simply put
Jimmy Johnson – 9 wins
Jeff Gordon – 6 wins
Consistency throughout the year, Who cares. Jimmy won 9 times, and has been very consistent throughout the year. Jeff Gordon has been more consistent, but only has 6 wins.
Jimmy wins this year, period. Jeff hasn’t got it done when it counts the most. The chas eis what it is. But either driver is worthy of lifting the cup, either driver is deserving. Taking the cup away from Jeff Gordon based on his consistency this year, well not cool, but how can you deny Jimmy who has won ALOT more, and been pretty darn consistent himself.
Every driver and team knows that they gotta step up for the last 10 races. Jimmys team did, Jeffs team hasn’t stepped up as much as they needed too. That’s the facts.
rcloke
Nov 07 2007 14:46
Rules...
are meant to be challenged, questioned, and changed.
Chevy14Tony
Nov 07 2007 13:44
The Rules
The rules said going into the season. Who was leading the chase at the end of the season won the Cup.
That is the Champ.
END OF STORY….
rcloke
Nov 07 2007 13:38
To what end
At what point do you stop trying to make the fans happy, and make Nascar a sport that is more than go fast and turn left. People outside the Nascar community basicly laugh at this great sport. They don’t understand why they can’t turn right or race in the rain. Why give these morons anymore reason to trash the greatest true sport there is. By that I mean giving the trouphy to a driver that failed to out race the competion on a 36 race schedule. If you can’t stand on the podeum and raise your hands up and honestly say, ” I Won” and mean it. What’s the point and the meaning of the Championship. To me and I know alot others, the Trophy has lost it true meaning, and the other race series have picked up on this and are laughing at us. I know your tired of people bringing up the differences between the current chase set-up and the Classic point system, but facts are facts. Classic points has JG up on JJ by 400 points. That’s consistancy over the entire schedule. That’s how you crown your champion, that’s how you keep your sport respectable, and that’s how it should return. My question to you is,Does a Nextel Cup Champion have as much respect, as a Winston Cup Champion? I say NO. The two greatest Champions in Nascar history is Richard Petty and Dale Sr. How many championships would either of those men have under this Chase system? How many would JG have under the old system?
McSmoke_20
Nov 07 2007 12:11
Jimmie
At poker night, when everyone agrees to play “Dealers Choice” you play the variation of the game you’re dealt. The last few seasons, it seems the drivers are playing NASCAR’s choice, which is fine- they’re trying to find a point system that works. I don’t really agree with this guess-n-check BS and think it’s starting to get annoying, but thats just my opinion.
Jimmie has played this version of “the game” the best, and for that he deserves the Championship. He didn’t back down at Texas- and that finish shows us how hard Jimmie’s worked to get to the top.
If Gordon wants to prove consistency counts, then he should go ahead and win this championship- consistency got him where he’s at. I wouldn’t count him out yet… If he leads the most laps and wins both- he’s got himself another cup… OR if he finishes 9 spots ahead of Jimmie in both he’ll get it too.
mkd2517
Nov 07 2007 11:53
At the end of last season
a number of drivers and quite a few fans expressed that winners of races should be awarded more points, therefore rewarding wins more than consistency. After all, what is the ultimate objective of racing? Winning or being consistent? (not the objective under the current point system, mind you, but the ultimate objective.)
The way the systen has been designed, it is, after all possible to win the cup without winning a single race in a season(not likely, but possible) merely by remaining consistent throuhgout the season.
Drivers and fans alike can’t have it both ways. If a driver racks up the nost wins in a season along with a great degree of consistency, he deserves to hoist the big trophy. Most of us agreed that wins should be rewarded with bonus points, and that’s what NASCAR changed the rules to reflect. Now that we are seeing the results of that decision, it’s only fitting that he with the most wins, wins!