Thursday, January 03, 2008

Dominance: What should be done?

 Hendrick Motorsports has mastered every type of racetrack. Week in and week out their drivers are always contending for the win. The length, shape, or gradient of the race track does not matter. Whatever Hendrick Motorsports has discovered must, then be universal to all racetracks. What do they have that the other race teams are missing? It cannot be money because plenty of race teams are just as wealthy. Could it be resources, experience, motivation, passion? Who knows! The other race teams must figure it out how to obtain the secret of Hendrick Motorsports or competition will die away. If the other race teams do catch on, nascar will be a completely different sport. What if each race team was just as good as the other? Could you imagine the racing? It would be fabulous. Will the Car of Tomorrow help or hinder this? It seems it would level out competition, but that also takes away competition. Having to stick to the specific templates does not give the race teams much room for creativity. Yet with more leveled out competition, we would not have the problem of a single dominant race team as we do now. Which is worse, room for creativity and the possibility of dominance, or leveled out competition, but no room for teams to use their specific skills? As the Car of Tomorrow becomes the Car of Today, we will see.