No easy answers for fixing Nationwide Series
The problem with that is there is no simple solution.
"The problem is the issues you might want to fix are at opposing angles to each other," said Allen Bestwick, a veteran racing broadcast journalist and a pit reporter for ABC and ESPN's NASCAR telecasts.
"The biggest problem with the series that NASCAR has to decide is what it wants it to be. Does it want it to be a developmental series for young drivers or does it want it to be an open series, America's No. 2 motorsports series where people test themselves against the best?"
NASCAR can't have it both ways, and yet it does. Unfortunately, the solutions are varied, everyone's got an opinion on how to fix things and everyone's got an opinion on everyone else's opinion.
Options being tossed around include limiting the points invading Sprint Cup drivers or Sprint Cup-backed teams can earn toward the Nationwide Series championship. But like nearly all the proposed solutions, this one is not unanimously supported or opposed.
"You want to find a way to make sure that young guys still have a chance to come into the series and develop and get decent sponsorship money and grow and get good equipment, but your championship has to be legitimate," Bestwick said. More at Florida Today