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You have to wonder if NASCAR chairman Brian France was nervous on that February day as he walked to the podium to answer questions about the most sweeping changes in NASCAR history.
If France wasn't nervous, he should've been. This would no longer be his father's NASCAR. So many things were changing already--there was a new title sponsor in Nextel, a new gas in Sunoco, a new schedule, even a softer tire meant to make races more exciting. But those were minor changes. With the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup, the changes would take a stick of dynamite to the points system that had defined the sport since 1975.
That the new system was no surprise--news of ...