NASCAR may have had an awesome weekend in Talladega. Loads of thrilling moments and shock winners regarded able to rock the headlines. Nonetheless, NASCAR needed to trigger an argument that has as an alternative taken the headlines. The DVP coverage has already had some issues in the previous few weeks. Contemporary off Josh Berry being faraway from the Kansas race. NASCAR took it upon itself, to make the rule they stood by every week in the past, out of date on Sunday.
Certain, the YellaWood 500 at Talladega has some fascinating moments. That included a degree within the race the place all of the vehicles have been racing four-wide. That nevertheless was fully overshadowed with lower than 10 laps to go, when a new-record was set in a large wreck. In whole 28 vehicles have been concerned within the “Large One”. That wasn’t the largest story out of stated wreck. As the security crews have been attending to the huge variety of vehicles left within the grass following the wreck, controversy appeared. Superspeedway racing has already been tough since going to the next-gen automotive, however what occurred Sunday has actually made it clear that NASCAR appears to be hypocritical.
NASCAR Causes Controversy At Talladega; Is DVP Out of date?
After seeing the backlash from Berry and crew chief Rodney Childers final week, NASCAR most likely simply made issues worse this week, as they determined to alter course on their guidelines, as they attached and pulled a number of vehicles again to their pit stalls with way more injury. It actually was a selection by NASCAR to simply up and alter course, in the midst of the race. To make issues worse they did so with out letting everybody within the storage know. That’s not good for the game when it has many different points.
Is NASCAR making an attempt to govern the playoffs, when they’re already a large number anyway? I don’t see drivers like Chase Elliott as a golden boy like many within the huge NASCAR fanbase see him, however he actually didn’t have a automotive that solely had flat tires. He even admitted he was shocked by what NASCAR did on Sunday. Elliott could be heard through his in-car radio speaking in regards to the mess on the backstretch.
” That is truthfully comical that we’ve created this proper right here,” Elliott stated, earlier than answering his spotter Trey Poole’s query about all the opposite vehicles being caught. “All people’s simply spinning their wheels, handing over circles, can’t go anyplace. Caught within the grass. Caught on the asphalt.”
The mess didn’t finish there as one of many tow vans finally began pushing Elliott’s No. 9 automotive, however then all of the sudden stopped. He was finally towed again to his pit field, as was Chase Briscoe. Different vehicles have been caught that didn’t get the good thing about a tow-back to the pits.
Drivers Sound-Off On Talladega Mess
Elliott wasn’t the one driver ticked off by what went down on Sunday, as loads of others sounded off. The widespread theme amongst all of the drivers was that what NASCAR determined to name on Sunday, was a catastrophe. In accordance with Nick DeGroot from motorsport.com, Joey Logano cited it as a whole catastrophe.
” Everyone seems to be simply sitting on flat tires. They wish to roll, however they will’t as a result of they’re on flat tires,” Logano stated. ” We bought this machine that’s going to jack up the again of the automotive however you’re flat on the fronts, you continue to can’t steer.”
Logano wasn’t alone as each Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin had loads to say on their respective podcasts. Harvick went so far as to name Sunday’s controversy a ‘s***present’, which was an ideal option to describe it.
