During the bye week, staff at NASCAR headquarters had a team building exercise where they brainstormed ideas about rule changes. They listed what they think fans want to see at the races. Black Flagged Online has obtained some of the ideas that were floated around in that meeting. Below are some of the ideas but we would also like to hear some of your ideas by posting comments:

1.) Let the drivers and crew members smoke. It would bring back the nostalgia of early fifties races and put the fans that smoke at ease about their own bad habits.

2.) Put a passenger seat in a few cars and raffle off the opportunity to ride with one of the more exciting drivers guaranteed to crash, Juan Pablo, Stevie Wallace, Kenny Wallace or anyone with the last name Wallace.

3.) Through a lottery, on the first pit stop, intentionally order the chosen pit crew to leave one wheel loose to fly off. The fans love crashes and this would guarantee it.

4.) Loosen up the pits so more fans can come down and rub elbows with the drivers. Maybe a halfway point barbecue where the race is stopped and the drivers cook for the fans. The fans could bring the salads.

5.) Put mufflers on all the cars so you can talk to each other during the race.

6.) Just for fun randomly switch the brake, clutch, and gas pedals around and watch the drivers through that foot pedal camera angle. Or loosen their seats.

7.) Make the corner safety workers on the far straight (since it is a family sport) be topless dancer type chicks. Make the seating on that side, “Adult Only”

8.) Do away with the green white checkered (Or whatever it is) finish and make the last ten laps a demolition derby style finish.

9.) Have celebrities drive like Willie Nelson, Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, Hillary Clinton. Their fans would soon become new fans of the sport.

10.) Make one track on the circuit a figure 8 race.