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Why? To rediscover the joy of racing for the sake of racing, not because NASCAR s TV ratings depend on it or because he feels the weight of the sport on his shoulders. <P> Even better yet, he could drive a late model for Busch on a Sprint Cup off week. Imagine the buzz that would deliver to some local short track. <P> Why for Busch? Well, there are things that Busch could learn from Earnhardt -- such as grace under pressure -- but there are things Junior could rediscover by driving for Rowdy -- such as an intense desire to win and just plain having fun. <P> <B>2.</B> The Top 35 rule should be abandoned and NASCAR should adopt knockout qualifying along the lines of Formula One. Yes, there is actually something from F1 that NASCAR should copy. <P> F1 s three rounds of knockout qualifying -- in which the fastest cars advance to rounds 2 and 3 -- are often more exciting and competitive than the races themselves. NASCAR qualifying, by comparison is a snoozefest. It is often more exciting to watch paint dry than to wait to see which of the bottom feeders has to go home. <P> Yes, this means that a popular driver might go home. And it means teams will have to work more on qualifying and their equipment might get torn up. That s how it goes in sports. Sometimes bad things happen to the good teams. <P> The PGA doesn t have a special rule to make sure that Tiger Woods doesn t miss the cut. NASCAR doesn t need one for its stars either. <P> And NASCAR might end up discovering that fans actually make a point of tuning in to watch qualifying each week. <P> <B>3.</B> International Speedway Corp. needs to announce that the second race it has promised for Kansas Speedway will come from Fontana -- not from Martinsville. <P> Of course, that won t happen because Fontana is in the second largest TV market in the country. The ratings for the Fontana race last February were higher than nearly every other race except Daytona -- and that has nothing to do with the quality of the race or the number of empty seats in the grandstands. <P> There is no doubt whatsoever that Martinsville is a better race, but it s in the middle of nowhere, which is a very bad place to be. It s extinction is as inevitable as the dinosaur that looked up at the sky to see an asteroid streaking through the atmosphere. <P> And that s a shame because while keeping Fontana looks like the good move on paper, another blow to yet another beloved NASCAR track will further alienate a critical fan base that NASCAR cannot afford to further alienate. <P> <B>4.</B> The 10th year of the 21st century is as good a time as any for the first victory by a female driver in a NASCAR or ARCA national stock car series. Erin Crocker came the closest recently when she finished second in an ARCA race in 2005. <P> This year is probably the best chance since then for a woman to win -- and Danica Patrick isn t even the best hope for that happening. <P> Don t be surprised if the first woman to win is Alli Owens. She ll be in her third year in ARCA but she ll be driving for top-flight Venturini Motorsports. The difference that better equipment makes was apparent at the ARCA test at Daytona this month -- where 10 women participated -- when Owens and her Venturini teammates were consistently the fastest cars on the track. <P> Another driver who could break through to Victory Lane is Johanna Long of Pensacola. She ll be driving the D Hondt Motorsports ARCA ride that Owens vacated. Long is just 17 and has a lot to learn, but she tore up the competition last season at Five Flags Speedway. She s a driver worth keeping an eye on in the future. <P> <B>5.</B> NASCAR needs to quit messing around with the Bud Shootout. <P> It used to be pretty simple who got to race in the Shootout. If you won a pole the previous year, you were in. If you were a past winner, you were in. <P> Then Budweiser decided they didn t want to sponsor the pole awards any more but still wanted the Shootout. Coors picked up sponsorship of the pole awards and it doesn t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Budweiser would rather sell warm beer than sponsor a race featuring all the Coors Light Pole Award winners. <P> So last year we got a convoluted formula that based eligibility on who drove for which manufacturer. But that didn t last long with teams switching manufacturers in the offseason and Dodge downsizing to just Penske. <P> And now we have a new convoluted formula. <P> Let s quit having the tail wag the dog. 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