The Two Sides of NASCAR's Double-File Restarts Debate

It's a new change around NASCAR. Double File restarts and they are certainly making a stir. However, there are people who are debating whether they are good or bad for NASCAR. Frankly, I can't blame them.

A rule done to make NASCAR "more exciting." It's an escape to try and hide the fact that this new car simply does not pass.

Before we jump to conclusion's let's look at the double-file restarts in different perspectives.

From the safety aspect, it's kind of scary. Drivers are driver really aggressive and are trying to get every single position possible. This week alone we saw so much contact it was crazy.

Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin and Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards and Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Paul Menard and Scott Speed, all made contact one way or another because of the double file restarts. More aggressive driving for rookies who can't test. Not very safe for a very dangerous sport.

From the drivers standpoint, it's frustrating. Your whole career you have been doing things one way. Now all of a sudden in the middle of a season without any practice or testing with it, you are forced to learn something entirely new.

Your entire career could be put on the line with these restarts. You have to be aggressive but you have to be patient and without any practice it's really difficult.

From NASCAR's standpoint it's a way to get the racing more exciting, and with their ratings being way down lately, they will try anything. It's a way to kinda of hide the embarrassment of the new car. NASCAR needs to make changes and the double-file restart hides it.

From a fans standpoint, it's exciting. Watching the best drivers in the nation battle it out every time side by side racing hard into turn one. It's like four or five mini races in itself. After all it is the fans who make this sport go isn't it? If NASCAR loses their fans they can't have a sport.

The double file restarts will be excellent. However, right now they are kind of dangerous. No one is in favor for a guy getting hurt or killed and that is what might happen with these things. Drivers drive WAY too aggressive at stupid times. They need to work it out.

They should have said we will do double file restarts at the smaller tracks first where the speeds are low so the drivers don't get injured. Chicagoland was a very crazy place to be in the front on Saturday.

So are the double-file restarts good for the sport of NASCAR? I say yes, but we rushed into them. The dangers of the double file restarts will be less of a fear once the drivers get use to how to drive in them.

However, I hope NASCAR realizes that they are not a solution to their problems. They have a lot of issues, and they need to look at a lot of things with this new car. If they do that, the racing will be better and the double file restarts will make the races more exciting. The fans will watch more and that's what it comes down to in the end.