I guess I'll give in my 2 cents. Personally I hate it. The Nationwide race today was horrid. That wasn't Daytona. Richard Petty even spoke up about it.
Shortly after Thursday's first Duel, Petty was asked innocuously what he thought of all the two-car drafting that made up the 500 qualifying race. Petty replied tersely that he couldn't stand it and that he was "ashamed to be a part of it."
Petty didn't go into great detail about why he was so upset with it. He said only, "I wasn't upset with our car. I was upset with the whole thing. Did you watch the race?"
And he wasn't alone. Fellow car owner and former crew chief Frank Stoddard didn't like it at all, either.
"You want the truth?" Stoddard said. "I've been coming here since 1985, and those were the worst two 150-mile qualifying races I've ever watched down here."
Pressed on why he felt so strongly that way, Stoddard added: "I just don't think it's racing. It's not even that. Guys are switching positions out there on the pace laps to get with who they want to get with and stuff. You've got multi-car teams [whose drivers] are talking on the radio to one another. I mean, you've got three or four guys talking to each other; they're not even talking to their spotters. That's just not what I was raised to go and do. I just think it's a ridiculous form of racing."
There was more to this article on Nascar.com on the guys involved that like it
