They've made great strides with these cars over the years, but they always seem to take a good car and do one or 2 things extremely dumb with them every time they update. Remember the "Car of Tomorrow" with their huge-ass wing that was basically making cars into airplanes? The first thing I thought when I saw the solid underpanel on these cars is "airplane wing"...and look what happened.
Hamlin and that POS Wallace advance. It’s officially football season. I’ve never seen a worse Bristol race in my entire life. What garbage.
In other news, the long run of Xfinity at Road America has ended. No race in 2024. After Cup left after a couple of big attendance weekends, this news leaves one to conclude NASCAR wants more than RA wants or needs to give. Mixed emotions as RA is a great place, but their prices, rules for fans, etc., are starting to give one pause. Sent from my SM-A102U using FerrariChat.com mobile app
I had high hopes for NASCAR at RA, a track that suits big horsepower cars (see also: Trans Am), but the product was never very good IMO. always devolved into a demolition derby, which is what NASCAR seems to want to be these days. RA should be fine, that place stays busy. still want IMSA to go back to the longer races (4-6 hours) there
Yes, and you may not know about a lot of the things that keep the place busy: teen driving classes, off road outings, open camping on non-race weekends, short distance drag racing, etc. I think I mentioned it before here, but worth repeating, that RA, as part of the pit/paddock improvements, added lighting to both, and then rumored night races.
started with something on track but ended in this, so yes I think there's an element of stagecraft. if Verstappen and Hamilton did this in F1 the internet would explode. but it's a nearly weekly occurance somewhere in NASCAR land (local short tracks etc)
2024 and Chicago is official again. NASCAR Cup Series 2024 Schedule Features Return to Chicago, Break for Olympics (yahoo.com)
Or that NASCAR is tired of being shown-up by Indy Car and IMSA on like circuits to the point where they don't publish their race's fastest laps... Road America 4.014 miles Indy Car 2023 Pole: Colton Herta 1:40:1945 Speed 144.50MPH Fastest Race Lap. Will Power 1:42:891 MPH: 140.442 IMSA GTP 2023 Pole: Pipo Derani 1:47.730 Speed 135.271MPH Fastest Race Lap. F. Albuquerque 1:49.676 MPH 132.871 NASCAR XFinity 2023 Pole: A.J. Allmendinger 2:10:574 Speed 111.16MPH Fastest Race Lap. NA Just saying... BHW
SCCA GT1 pole time (from 2020 Runoffs) is 2:02 granted, it was Ernie Francis in his Trans Am car. but still...SCCA GT1 is EIGHT SECONDS faster than Xfinity?
Hmm. What’s this running around the Roval by himself this morning. Sounds like paddle shifting. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
