Originally posted on 02/16/2018:

little history update, since he kinda got the reasoning for plate racing wrong....

plates weren't implemented because of big pack wrecks on the superspeedways, but rather because without plates, speeds were hitting 215-220 mph, and the cars, due to the technology in aerodynamics, were goin' airborn in wrecks....

thus, we got the plates, which created "pack racing" that didn't exist at daytona and dega before the plates.....

pack racing with under-horsepowered engines has created the big ones, and more wrecks than there were before plate racing, and is the reason we see the huge packs, as all the cars are very equal, performance wise.... it is the trade off to avoid having cars fly up into the stands, which was starting to happen as the unrestricted cars were subject to soaring through the air at the 210-220 mph speeds.....

this year, cars hitting 202 mph due to lower rear ends/less rear spoiler impact.....

should be a wild race!!!