Q: Why have a champion series wwhen you don't have to win to make it.. All you need is a team with mucho resourches
A: I think that the chase is fair. It makes the teams work hard through the whole season. They have to work hard before the chase to try and make it, then if they do make it 12th place is what roughly 100 points behind first makes an exciting end of season. To me its really no different than the playoffs in the NFL, think about it- in regular season you fight to make it to the playoffs, then you fight to make it to the superbowl. No matter how dominate you are in regular season (or in NASCAR before the chase) if you screw up in the playoffs (the chase) it's game over.