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Could not agree more with the comments of wndale21 and the author. I am a NASCAR fan dating back to the 1950's who grew up within hearing distance of the Orange County Speedway in Hillsborough, NC. I am so disappointed in the direction NASCAR has taken, especially since the death of Dale Sr. Doing away with the Southern 500 (the Labor Day version at Darlington) did great damage; and, of course, this was on top of leaving so many traditional tracks. I still watch NASCAR on TV, and will continue to do so wherever they race, but the passion is simply not there like it used to be (I usually tape the Saturday night races and watch them on Sunday, fast-forwarding through the commercials and sometimes through the long green flag runs that are so common on the more boring tracks [we all know which ones they are]). My advice to Brian France: Return to your roots, more short tracks, give us a real Southern 500 at Darlington on Labor Day week-end, return to Rockingham with a decent date, a high-banked 3/4 mile oval, Sunday afternoons are preferable to Saturday nights. Progressive banking is something that sounds good, but it seems to have ruined the show everywhere it has been installed; think I would move away from it. Finally, if NASCAR could work a dirt track or two into the schedule, I'd pay my own money to see that (this is a paraphrase of Dave Despain, from Speed Channel's Windtunnel show).