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Bottom post of the previous page:

I hate that your defending him too, so call it quits lol, he could have lifted earlier, but if I'd been in his position, I'd have done the same.
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Jimmy Jawnsen did that there...
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And that is title number 7!!!!

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Well that was a shitty end with a shitty winner. Johnson was nowhere all day and then profited from Earl's dumbness. Meh. Well I suppose it fits the shitty format.
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Yup but of the three remaining, I'd prefer he won than the others.
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grabbing the popcorn...
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Nobody wants to fight, they must have replaced Logano with an android cos he showed quiet a bit of maturity in his interview, same for Kyle.
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I'm not fussed by who deserved to win or who didn't win the title, but I am disappointed that Larson had the race win snatched from him.
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Indeed, he's wasting his abilities in that team, they should swap him for Danica.
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Danica and Chip, that's a match made in heaven. Throw Jorge Lorenzo in their and you've got the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
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Guys, I agree with you, the chase sucks, the best this year were Keselowski and Truex Jr. Jimmie was lost the whole season and won because of chase and because the others don't know how to handle a final race.

Well, at least they still remember Dale Earnhardt sr. 8)

Now Jimmie Johnson is tied in seven titles with Richard Petty and Dale sr, what do you think??
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deserved. period.
He wins two races early in the season, then wins 3 in the chase. Knows how to exploit the chase. Everyone can use the same rules.
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Agree with Erwin. You don't win that many races in a season and get called undeserving. Johnson and Knaus have been impeccable throughout the Chase of the Chase format era. Anyway, I called it:
kals wrote:Johnson will win this year. Calling it.

The Chase concept is stupid. End of story.
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I don't think the chase is terrible, it does what it's designed to do and in comparison to F1 where there has only ever been two people in the position of winning the title for the past four years, it produces a more exciting format.

But in comparison to normal regular championships, it does suck balls.
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What bugs me about the chase is the fact that contenders can have their chances ruined thanks to crashes caused by non-contenders. You don't see teams eliminated in the regular season having any impact on the Super Bowl.
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John wrote:What bugs me about the chase is the fact that contenders can have their chances ruined thanks to crashes caused by non-contenders. You don't see teams eliminated in the regular season having any impact on the Super Bowl.
That's what bugs you?

What bugs me is NASCAR and its fans lauding a system that gives Ryan Newman a realistic shot at a title when he barely registers a reasonable result throughout a season.

But yeah, joking about Newman aside I do agree. Perhaps what NASCAR can add to the format is putting all the chase contenders at the head of the pack at the start of every race plus restart. Yes that doesn't eliminate the possibility of getting caught up in incidents but it ensures the chase pack are fighting themselves to begin with. Also, maybe the chasers can be given a weight break so they are faster that the non-chase pack?
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