A hypothetical question about NASCAR...?

May be...

I'm sure there are some drivers out there making the teams look good and vice versa. It take a combination of all 3 to make a champion .

A bad driver in bad equipment with a bad crew is going to be bad.
A good driver in good equipment with a good crew is going to be good.
A bad driver in good equipment with a good crew is going to be mediocre. (Casey Mears)
A good driver in bad equipment with a bad crew is going to find a way to be better than average, but still not as good as they should be.

You have to have a good combination of driver, crew and crew chief to be a winner. Case in point, Jimmie (back to back to back champion) Johnson!

A lot of the bottom drivers are just not very good. Robby Gordon has his own team because no one wanted to hire him. Casey Mears was still pretty rotten at Hendrick. So, the bottom drivers would probably not do much better in top flight equipment simply because they are not top flight themselves. The top drivers would be able to communicate their needs to their crews, and still do very well.

how much of the success is crew and equipment? Let's say you switched the top ten drivers and the bottom ten drivers. Each using the others' original equipment and crews....what do you think the results would be?

I think we would find some new stars, and confirm some of the stars already in the sport.

I know it won't happen, just interesting to think about.

The driver is only as good as the equipment and crew chief. It would take time for the drivers and crew chiefs to get use to working with each other but I really do think that any "Top Driver" would do good with and existing team that had good equipment and a good crew chief.

These COT cars don't do like they were intended to do. The COT cars were intended to put the cars into the hands of the driver. They don't. It puts it into the hands of the crew chief and cars first. I think the COT failed their intended purpose of NASCAR. That doesn't mean they are a loss.

I say take the cars and use the splitters on the large tracks and on the small tracks go back to the valance type front ends to give the cars more down force and handle better in traffic so cars out front doesn't run off and leave the cars in traffic. The change could be as simple as bolting a sheet of metal over the splitter up toward the bumper just to block the effects of the splitter.

I think you would see a noticeable improvement from the bottom drivers using the better equipment and crews. All drivers should have some basic level of driving talent to even be at the Cup level. The top drivers would have a harder time in the worse equipment. You can be the best driver in the series but if your car isn't fast, and your crew doesn't get a good setup, then you can only do so well. They would still show some improvement of the original drivers, though.

I think you are completely right and I would love to see it because I know my driver, Elliott Sadler, would be a star.

And if you put an infinite number of monkeys, in front of an infinite amount ot typewriters, and give them an infinite amount of time, one of them will write the next great novel.

Same thing applies in NASCAR.

Toss enough mud on the wall, and eventually some will stick.

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