Fast 49 takes shot at passing points format on Twitter

[NormP]

Correct on the first sentence. The second sentence is a typical response. Trying to lump Rumley in with the 10 or 12 nerds on here like you is laughable.

Your opinion is no more valuable than that of anyone else on here; but I guess when you can't refute the logic and get butt hurt because someone spoke ill of your hero, you just have to try to distract from the topic with ad hominem attacks.

[NormP]

You should know ,,,,, you were the one that tried to touched me.

YOU FAGGGG

Nice. I bet your classmates in 8th grade will get a good laugh at that one..

[Mason87]

How did bloomquist get involved? LOL. But wouldn't mind taking a couple of bumps with the goat

[MEE]

Nice. I bet your classmates in 8th grade will get a good laugh at that one.

I bet you've tried to look at your dad,s ________________ before.
But not your mom,you are not made that way.

LOLOLOLOLOLO

[Mason87]

Sounds like JD has his own personal ball washer in MEE

[NormP]

Wow. I had no idea when I made a joke that he would get so frustrated. Hilarious.

[Mason87]

Yeah Norm you may have reopened something in his life with that joke. No daddy No. LOL

[NormP]

It's funny. These people take this (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) way too seriously. You throw a little bait their way and suddenly they're so wrapped around the axle the best they can do is whine and call people nerds, or worse. Easiest fishing in the world.

So predictable what will happen if you push just the right buttons. Maybe I'll change my name to Dr. Pavlov.

[Thedoctor]

I don’t know how many threads I’ve read and people are stating here we go again with ten pages of this and that. Isn’t this a f****** message board. Aren’t we here to discuss and debate crap. If you can’t handle it or your feelings get hurt when someone disagrees with you, get out of here. Everything’s not always personal, calm down.

[Drop Shock]

Just face it, your favorite driver probably HATES passing points. These guys work on these cars extremely hard and are racing to put food on the table, drivers and crew members both. This sport shouldn’t have this Mickey Mouse bs involved with it

[GEAR_HEAD]

Racing is supposed to be a hobby, not a business. They turned it into a business, not the fans, so don't punish us. If they get to make their hobby their business then they are very fortunate but they still need to understand that from a fan perspective it's still all about the entertainment value. If they don't keep fans entertained then the fans stop coming and the racers no longer have their hobby or their business. The fans have less to lose, they only lose a hobby that can be easily replaced with something else.

[Josh Bayko]

Here’s the rub. I’m thinking Davenport would be okay with format if he knew exactly how many cars he had to pass to transfer. Like if it was just a pill draw show where you have to finish top 4 of your heat, this tweet probably doesn’t happen.

One of his tweets admits he overdrove the car trying to make a pass he wasn’t even sure he had to make.

Maybe tweak the format and get rid of the passing points. Instead of double heats, just make the heats 20 laps. That should be more than enough time to work your way to front if you start in the back.

[Winston_Wolfe]

With all due respect to Jonathan Davenport and the other fine racers who don't like passing points, I offer my opinion. I believe most fans do NOT like qualifying and watching the fastest cars start up front. Sure, one might tear up a car in a heat race trying to make the show, but the same thing can happen in qualifying. Also, if you mess up in qualifying, you can dig yourself into a hole similar to what might happen in multiple passing point heat races. Racing should be about who accomplished the most RACING with other cars on the track. Not who can qualify well out there by themselves and then run off ahead of the pack and hide.

[buster83]

passing points is not the true way of getting the absolute best cars in feature.if your not a full time member of that sanction it's even harder have seen drivers put down the fastest time but not make the feature because of the sanction takes care of it's own first they are the first to be handed down the provinals.if you are a visitor even through you did set the fastest lap time and finished 4th in a ten lap heat race you better off to pack it up and head home.by this format drivers are getting screwed,the way knoxville does it more fair play this why you do not see many drivers visit different sanction races as decades ago.

[luke81]

I used to race mini sprints in a passing points format. I don't know a single person who actually likes it. There's too much unknown. That being said, if you show up knowing that is the format don't cry when thats what happens.