Over at the Sporting News I read an interesting blog. The question asked is what would you change if you could. Well that is interesting. NASCAR has changed a lot. CoT, the rules, the fines and so on. But what do the fans want?

Well the first item that Mattbud8 wrote on is probably the one I would pick. Not the Earnhardt move but the fines. Any fine given a driver or team is redistributed back to the top teams at the end of the year. That doesn’t sound like a penalty to me. If you are a top 10 team, do you really worry about a fine if you will get most of it back?

I agree that the fines need to go somewhere else, and I think a charity is perfect. Why not have the top 5 teams pick a charity each. ALL the fine money each year goes to those charities (picked at the beginning of the year). Now we get to see a penalty and some good coming out of it.

It’s a simple change but it makes an impact. It helps those that need it and forces teams and drivers to think twice about breaking a major rule (there is too much gray in the rules, or their application to believe none will be broken).

What else would you change? Who knows, maybe some officials will notice the attention and do something the fans are actually asking for.