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The Teardown

All-Star Race podcast: Thoughts on the rules package dilemma

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

After an experimental rules package was tried in Saturday night’s All-Star Race, I had some thoughts to share about the balance of entertainment vs. competition. This podcast was recorded as a live stream on Periscope.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

0:24.9

I'm your host Jeff Gluck, and I'm here live on Periscope from my apartment in Portland.

0:30.7

I wasn't at the All-Starys tonight, but now I'm joining you live to see what you have to say.

0:36.9

At least I'm recording this live so dual

0:40.2

purpose here I don't have anybody to chat with so I'll be chatting with the people

0:44.1

here on Periscope taking their questions obviously I think that I had a different

0:49.8

interpretation feeling about the race as most of you did watching at home because yeah it seemed

0:57.9

like really people on Twitter were pretty high on the package they liked it and even Kyle

1:06.4

Larson basically said afterwards that hey it was a lot of fun I hate to say this but it was a lot of fun.

1:13.1

I hate to say this, but it was a lot of fun kind of thing.

1:16.3

Here's my thing, and I'll just start with this.

1:22.3

So obviously, I want NASCAR to go the right direction because I feel like I'm pretty invested in all of NASCAR racing at this point.

1:28.6

It's my career.

1:29.6

So I want to see what is ultimately the right thing for the sport, right?

1:34.8

Well, when you have a situation where you're putting the best drivers at the top, top level,

1:41.9

and they're basically just matting it to the floor

1:45.4

and driving around and around without having to lift or anything like that.

1:51.6

I'm like, oh, it's just tough to watch because it's like,

1:54.9

is this really the best form of racing?

1:58.9

Is this really the best test of their skills? Now, that said, obviously,

2:04.9

it was a much, much, much better show. It was very, very exciting for an all-star race.

2:11.3

Typically, the all-star race really isn't exciting at all. Now, you did have Harvick lead all

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