NASCAR senior vp of competitors Elton Sawyer seems on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio each Tuesday, recapping the most important subjects from the earlier weekend’s race. This previous Tuesday, Sawyer stated he was uncertain what NASCAR wanted to do to repair the present superspeedway package deal. Sawyer cited the 67 lead adjustments that passed off at Talladega Superspeedway, which Hamlin believes are made-up stats.
Hamlin stated on Monday’s “Actions Detrimental” podcast that NASCAR brings up the numbers to “make itself look good.” He added that they lose credibility by not listening to drivers and hardcore followers’ criticisms of the superspeedway package deal.
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“While you had Elton go on [SiriusXM] final week speaking about superspeedway racing and say, ‘I don’t perceive, what do we now have to repair? Have a look at the stats we now have this week, we had 67 lead adjustments and no matter else,’ I feel you lose some credibility with the followers,” Hamlin stated. “And I feel the followers have a low morale proper now because of their lack of religion within the competitors management. I feel it’s a tricky place they’re in, proper. However I feel they need to in all probability cancel the entire approaching the radio. I do know why they’re doing it. I do know why NASCAR comes on each Tuesday morning and says, ‘Let me let you know why we did this, let you know why we did that.’
“Recognize that transparency from them, however while you go in there and you sweep off what each driver stated and has stated for fairly a while with the superspeedway package deal. … I simply assume NASCAR created its personal stats to make itself look good. After they created a inexperienced flag passes stat that didn’t even embrace the beginning/end line — it was simply an invisible nonetheless many noses go forward one another at any invisible level on the monitor and we’re gonna depend that as a cross, I’m sorry, you’re simply making one thing as much as look higher.”
NASCAR’s Elton Sawyer defends high quality of racing after Talladega, pushes again on criticism from Denny Hamlin, followers
Hamlin was one in all a number of drivers who complained in regards to the issue of passing at Talladega. Late within the race, not one driver pulled out of line to make a run. The sphere stayed 2×2 to the end, with Austin Cindric narrowly edging out Ryan Preece for the win.
The race was not nicely acquired by followers on social media. However Sawyer additionally noticed the group at Talladega cheering and standing on their toes. He noticed four-wide racing which included 67 lead adjustments.
“While you’re sitting in race management… [you can see] our followers standing on their toes. We’re four-wide, in some circumstances five-wide, again to single file and our followers are standing up and cheering. And then you definitely go have a look at the metrics. And also you have a look at the stats after the race and you’ve got 67 lead adjustments amongst 23 totally different drivers,” Sawyer stated. “After we have a look at all of that, what are we making an attempt to repair? What’s not going the way in which we wish it? I get it after we begin speaking about brief monitor packages when we now have a man that leads 400 some laps of a 500-lap race. OK, we’re gonna do our greatest to attempt to get to work on that and determine what we are able to do.
“However when you’ve gotten 67 lead adjustments amongst 23 totally different drivers, I’m not actual certain what we’re going to work on there. However as all the time, we wanna get higher. We wish to have 70 lead adjustments, 25 or 30 totally different drivers that lead races. That’s a whole lot of phrases there, however the brief reply is we’re all the time taking a look at our product. Whether or not it’s superspeedways, street course, intermediate or brief monitor, we’re all the time taking a look at it and making an attempt to make it higher.”
