I feel that I have to comment on some of Greg's post. 

When you say NASCAR was less interesting, that comment is from a fan perspective not a Sim Racer.  We do not have fans to cater too.  The question is who is a more deserving or respected champion.  One that out-performs in 5 races with our format this year or one that out-performs in 36 or 12 race Season.  We have to note that out-performs in 5 races is really 4 and Crap Shoot at Talladega.  Which do you respect more? 

I understand the keeping the attendance-up issue, but would we achieve same thing with 3-4 short seasons?  After all, that is kinda what we have now.  (26 race Season - 5 Race Season & another 5 Race Season to decide year long champion.  It just does not make sense from my perspective to continue to follow NASCAR Format when their focus is on fan attendance and ours is on Sim racer attendance.  I would prefer the no-chase system in real NASCAR and I do not need to lie to myself about this.  It is not that important to me,anymore!

As for the comment about physics change to cater to an individual in this post?  Many of the people in the SCE community have complained of the loose-in problem this year, but I agree, the timing of a possible update is less than desirable for some.  It turns -out that the problem is actually with the Aero and that the cambers do not need adjusting to fix this issue.  Joel has known, for some time, that the aero was off, but life events prevented the update from coming sooner.

I give up... There is no making everyone happy and I should not have to defend the need for an update.

I am sorry I brought this topic up...   

I am looking for someone to take  the responsibility of providing a Pro/Elite Series (Open Setup-Cup Competition)in 2015.  Let me know if you are interested and I will attempt to provide the needed server, etc., as long as I can justify the server box cost.

PS. Greg, I am very sorry if this seems like this is all about your comments.  I hope you know in your gut, it is not.  I have been hanging on by a thread with Sim racing and HDSR for many reasons.  Mostly my time constraints, physical issues and my fun-factor with SCE right now being the issues.

Phillip 

Phil we all hope you get better and are able to do what you enjoy doing.  I know I would certainly miss running door to door with you fighting for a win on any night.

I like the format, it brings other players into the mix and will hopefully keep the interest up. Attendance has been down for years in nascar, has nothing to do with the chase format. Nascar giving teams special attention and cookie cutter tracks, cost to race you know what they say, its not how fast you want to go, but how much money do you want to spend, along with the economy - ticket pricing, hotels, gas, souveniers etc.... is what is hurting Nascar. I feel if you were good all season, you should be good in the chase. We cant start catering the rules for individuals and wanting to change physics this late into the chase. We have seen some guys starting to figure things out, they should not be punished but, rewarded with a chance to win the championship. Dont tell me nascar was interesting when Gordon, Earnhardt or whoever had a 200 - 300 point lead over second, if you do think that was interesting your lying to yourself. Of course, those were some of the guys nascar catered to werent they, hmmm. Any way those are my thoughts.

Thanks Mike and Marc.  It is definitely going to be tough, not to get up on the wheel and race hard.

I know we talked about it the other night, but did you look into that thing I mentioned, I bet it would help a ton, just a thought.