President Mike - New Formula Hurts Tony Stewart's Title Bid

In later January, NASCAR announced an easier-to-understand scoring system supplying your level every finish spot, one particular by means of 43, plus about three reward details to get a win, just one point for leading your lap your decide one for leading one of the most laps.

The good old formulation was scrapped to accomplish straightforwardness nonetheless with the exact same period NASCAR was mindful of fans' weariness with points racing. "The followers were very clear concerning just one thing: They cherish winning," NASCAR CEO Brian France explained on the time. "They don't really want the staff that will you need to be quite happy with a very good tips daytime or perhaps a good run."

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Neither France nor NASCAR President Mike Helton (who said around January, "Whether all of us obtained them right, we could see") suspected how an process would certainly have fun with out.

But along with two Sundays quit inside 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup bill run, the other seems to have happened. Stewart, along with four Chase wins, trails leader Carl Edwards (no Chase wins) by simply three points.

Under the particular old scoring format, Stewart would likely often be inside direct by eleven factors (6,274 for you to 6,265), that NASCAR totals for you to approximately a pair of points under the fresh system.

But Stewart, in whose consecutive victories at Martinsville Speedway and Former series champion Dale Jarrett , now a strong ESPN analyst, stated Edwards' uniformity eight is done between second in addition to 11th from the Chase includes title-winning merit, too.

"I basically consider it can be perfect," Jarrett said. "There should be a thing in place of which rewards both equally receiving and consistency.

"Carl includes done this his way; Tony is doing the item his way. I consider it really is an ideal scenario."

With third-place Kevin Harvick 33 tips back, that Chase is essentially a two-man the show-down and resumes by using Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway , which has recently been repaved and reconfigured since its February race.

Drivers are worried of which singular lane associated with traffic will have the ability to have across the one-mile oval.

"I experience bad," Jarrett said in case your second groove doesn't develop, motorists could become aggravated as well as racing may well mirror the particular bump-to-pass style at Bristol Motor Speedway in advance of its two thousand and seven repave.

"Unless you may only be eligible up front as well as kind there presently there are a massive amount unknowns," Jarrett said. "It'll become a new demanding competition day for that crew chiefs, to express the least."