Matt Jones

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[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

Palou on one.

[INDYCAR on FOX @IndyCarOnFOX]

To the top!

Alex Palou wins pole position in St. Louis with a 174.353 two-lap average run.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

What a time to be a Hokies fan let’s goo.

[Owun @CryptoOwun]

Putting in a crystal ball for James Franklin to land his first 5-star at Virginia Tech, a certain edge defender from VA…👀⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🦃 #LGH

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@mostlysports @BFW All these new dome nfl stadiums STINK

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@Frontstretch @m_massie22 Give us Squirrel McNutt in the truck series.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@lmm2996 I enjoy caution free races when I watch Indycar even though the same dude wins all the time it is what it is.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@CoreyLaJoie @kylepetty 500 laps no stage cautions see who can really wheel it.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

Jalen Brunson a DAWG

[Alexander @AlextheAdm1ral]

@FreddieKraft @DonnieSpinks @DivaQBBQ Stages are a remnant of a sanctioning body that wanted to treat races like a season and a season like a race. We've taken a major positive step back towards treating seasons like seasons, now let's treat races like races: you get pts from where you finish, not 2 arbitrary laps

[Patrick @mustang067_pat]

Stages are NOT needed for TV.

F1 and IndyCar don’t schedule cautions for TV and take away the leaders advantage.

Stage racing is a gimmick designed to manufacture entertainment and it needs to be abolished.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@HighLineBetting @SkyboxNascar @RkyMtnBETS @FDSportsbook @FanDuel_Support Yeah I need that to 🤣

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@Megafrayder2 The tv thing is an excuse every other racing series don’t have stages they still show pit cycles and they are more willing to do side by sides now.

[Joseph Srigley @joe_srigley]

Here’s the thing…

If the racing is good, I’ll watch a six-hour race, let alone a four-hour race. If then product is suboptimal then it’s easy to feel like this.

But, I’m the person who often says I miss the 500-mile intermediate races we had a handful of years ago.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

Tv can do side by side commercials most of the networks do, Indycar doesn’t have stages and Fox had side by sides the hole race at Detroit there is no excuse for having stages anymore.

[Alexander @AlextheAdm1ral]

@dennyhamlin @ericmyers_19 "4 hours of anything is too long"

and

"Stages are needed for TV"

Are opposing statements. I don't agree, but if 4 hours IS too long, we save 20 minutes per race with the stroke of a pen if we ditch stages. Otherwise, you want to take more track time away from the paying fan

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@S1apSh0es 1000% agree

[S1apSh0es @S1apSh0es]

And God help you if a caution happens right before a stage break. Get ready for a half hour of nothing happening.

[S1apSh0es @S1apSh0es]

This meant that even a single car spin with no contact with anyone or the wall resulted in 15 minutes of pacing and down time. Hard to convince people to watch your racing when there’s an awful lot of pacing instead.

[S1apSh0es @S1apSh0es]

Cautions used to be for unsafe track conditions and that was it but somewhere in the 2000’s we decided that every caution, however minor, had to be long enough to accommodate a pitstop cycle and an ad break or two.

[S1apSh0es @S1apSh0es]

Everyone debating about whether or not we should shorten the races and apparently the one sacred cow we’re not willing to sacrifice is two guaranteed stoppages per race for the sake of tv ad breaks.

[Matt Jones @fittedjones]

@lmm2996 I wish races were still 500 miles the more the better