I loved being a participant and seeing the 4 wide in person. For personal reasons I didn't go this year, but I found myself watching the complete show yesterday. One of the very, very few events I watch because the regular event shows are so predictable and have gotten boring.
I looked at the results on DRC and they listed them like this:
Order Car# Lane Driver Car Qual RT ET Speed
1. 2814 2 Matt Hagan, '13 Charger 6 0.052 4.071 315.34
2. 256 4 Blake Alexander, '10 Charger 10 0.104 4.156 294.56
3. 8 1 Tim Wilkerson, '13 Mustang 4 0.097 5.141 153.39
4. 3111 3 Chad Head, '13 Camry 1 0.114 10.525 67.05
I think that is about as simple as results can be reported.
We find fault because the runner up car cut .1 lights all day? In the final his reaction time was consistent with 2 of the other 3 cars. If his lights were so bad, it should have given all the cars that he ran against an advantage and make him easy to beat, but they didn't. I think it is interesting that the 1 and 4 cars were out ran by the number 10 and 6 qualified cars.
And all it took for the 8 and 9 qualifiers to beat the 1 and 16 guys was to out run them, but again they didn't so they didn't deserve to advance.
Watching teams pick lanes, I don't think lane 4 was an undesirable lane.
I don't know what the attendance was, but rain fell just about everywhere in the Carolinas Friday, and there was a tremendous amount of car related events in the area Saturday and Sunday.
There is a NASCAR affiliated short track near my shop, and their biggest spectator draw every year is a crash and burn show, no racing involved. I have also seen many commercials on TV for the Atlanta event coming in 2 weeks and they seem to feature nitro cars blowing up. So if that is the profile of the spectators, .................
IMO, the 4 wide nationals are great, and I wish other events during the season had some type of variety in them to spice up the series.
That should give you guys some more to complain about.
