Maybe we can t figure out who is going to be the President, but when it comes to important things like determining the Winston Cup Champion, the system works like a fine watch. They face several major challenges to revive the numbers.
Overexposure is a problem.
The Daytona 500, the World 600, the Firecracker 400 and the Darlington 500 were the traditional centerpieces of the season. Now we have an enlarged calendar that drags on like the NBA playoffs, with the concurrent Busch Series blurring the imagery to a casual television audience in that their cars and stars cannot be differentiated from the big boys in Winston Cup. This slavish urge to sell sponsorship for everything except the men s room toilet seats and Bill France s skivvies borders on the absurd. Additionally, Winston Cup must develop some vivid stars to follow retiring Darrell Waltrip, the slowing of Bill Elliott and the stand-alone superstar, Dale Earnhardt. That is, of course, Dale Earnhardt.