Nascar at Talladega

[CaptainHaplo]

First off carburetors were phased out of the US market because of "big oil". Too many people were figuring out how to get 60, 70 or even a 100 miles per gallon by fiddling with the fuel air mixture. Big Oil had to keep buying the rights to such things for major money. They finally had enough and went to fuel injection.

When automakers - and the dealers realized how computerized the cars could be, they then began to see the profit in making the vehicles so complex that your local shop was limited in what it could do for you. Thus ending the days of the neighborhood garage where Leroy or Mike could fix anything from a go-cart, through a tractor, to a normal family car, all the way to a diesel rig.

Heck, I have a Saturn - and had to buy a special tool to get the danged oil filter off. Something goes wrong - you have to have a special computer (that costs MAJOR $$$) to hook to the thing to tell you that you have a bad oxygen sensor. Then the sensor itself costs ya $300 bucks, and good luck putting it in without special tools.

Now back to the topic - yes - "stock" car is such a misnomer. There isn't a solitary part on those things that are stock.

As for controlling the speed - I have no problem with the track, I have the perfect answer for how to fix speed at the big T. Put Bristol the week before - and they can change engines, brake packages and transmissions, as well as repair any frame damage - but they have to leave the body panels unchanged from the finish of the last race!

Seriously - just take the front splitter and rear wing off. Nothing holding the car down. The drivers would learn real fast what the original "Nascar" drivers (aka the bootleggers) learned - how to drive the car to its limit - not some arbitrary one imposed by the sanctioning board of Nascar.