The Amazing Chase

The Chase for the Nextel Cup seems to have done wonders for the sport of stock car racing. It has taken an at best mediocre announcer Bill Webber and placed him before a national audience, most of the time Bill is unable to remember the names of drivers of the cars. His biggest claim to fame is his very polished fade to a break for commercial. The Chase has also greatly increased the number of cautions for commercial or at least it seems so. I have it seems seen many more cautions called for mystery debris, which is never actually shown. Or turns out to be a small piece of wrapper which surly would take out any car that happened to hit it. The Chase has also taken the other 33 drivers out of the eye of the media even if they should happen to be running up front all day. Which in the long view of things could prove to be bad for the sport as the sponsors of those cars that fail to make the chase on a regular basis start to place clauses removing their dollars after the 26th race if a car fails to make the chase. I mean why pay sponsorship money if you have very little chance of it translating into the nation exspsure that you are paying for?