Things I missed while fiddling with my Netflix

So the trouble with NASCAR isn't that the sport is unexciting. The trouble is that the the excitement is spread out over three days of pageantry and buildup followed by four to six hours of somewhat redundant racing. For the love of god, shorten the races. I know the advertisers pay the bills but would you rather pay for six hours worth of ads on an event no one watches or three hours worth of ads with a nice consistent Nielson rating. As a matter of fact here's three tips to improve your sport;

shorten the races, I swear I've turned off races after five hours, who watches anything for five hours.

single elimination chase (12 in the first race, 11 in the second, etc. down to three drives in the chase for the final race),and finally

work on your scheduling in two ways: start all of the races at two times (Saturday night at 8 or Sunday afternoon at 3). Everyone in the English speaking world knows when NFL games are on. The second way that you can fix your scheduling is to dust off the wipers and rain tires, I'll bet the ratings were just fine for that race in Montreal a couple of years back. Racing at 70 instead of 170 is still racing. Does anyone ever watch the race on Monday afternoon?

But whatever you do make sure you let guys keep doing idiotic stuff like this, it's funny and it's ratings gold.