2023 NASCAR Discussion ThreadNASCAR
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I am incredibly proud and pleased at what the Garage 56 Camaro accomplished at the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans. Fascinating car for absolute sure. I spent a good amount of time praising this car on Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube. Someone suggested that car should maybe be the new NASCAR road racing package or even a new class for IMSA. Either way, Hendrick Motorsports deserve their flowers for this effort.
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I gave up on Instagram long ago. Too many bad experiences on IG. Then it was not long ago I returned to Discord. Zoom and Skype I don't really use.
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Last Cup race of the season on Fox had a few interesting moments, such as Clint Bowyer getting jumpy about Denny Hamlin's strange accident and Tyler Reddick cutting the course to avoid bringing out a caution, but Sonoma was mostly a boring race as Martin Truex Jr. dominated to win his 2nd race of the year. Cup Series will be on NBC in 2 weeks for the race from Nashville.
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While what Tyler Reddick did was a penalty that called for a drive-through, what he did was a commitment cone violation, not a course shortcut. He hooked a right turn just past turn 11A, before the start-finish line, to get back to pit entry, and thus finished that lap on pit road after adding the distance from pit entry through turns 11, 11A and back across the (unused by NASCAR) track to pit entry.
Now, had he waited until turn 1 to do this (and thus come back down the drag strip or up the carousel), it would have been a rather massive cut because he would have crossed the start-finish line.
Now, had he waited until turn 1 to do this (and thus come back down the drag strip or up the carousel), it would have been a rather massive cut because he would have crossed the start-finish line.
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Commitment cone violation makes sense, but it isn't what NASCAR said he was penalized for. They did indeed penalize him for cutting the racetrack, never mind the fact he never crossed the start line to start a new lap and trip the transponder. I would love to know what they would have determined had he turned around completely, drove backwards around turn 11, then pulled a U-turn onto pit lane.
Quote from the article:
“Obviously, it changes it time and distance of the race,” NASCAR Cup Series director Brad Moran told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Tuesday. “So yes, he did go down pit road and got his tires changed, but came back well ahead of where he would have. We appreciate the fact he didn’t tear stuff up down the racetrack, but unfortunately, we have rules that you cannot shortcut the course, and that was a shortcut back to pit road. He saved about 90% of the racetrack."
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I don't recall Beard Motorsports doing 7 Cup races in a season before, but they added the summer Atlanta race to the schedule, again with Austin Hill.
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Joe Gibbs Racing is taking on Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment and Arctos Sports Partners as "significant" minority partners, while Gibbs gets a stake in HBSE pending approval of the NBA and NHL. For what it's worth, while Josh Harris of HBSE is buying the NFL's Washington Commanders, where Gibbs had two head coaching stints, it appears that is a separate venture from HBSE.
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I missed the last 30 or so laps thanks to the power randomly going out in the neighborhood. Of course it came back on after the finish. 
Did Chastain cruise to the win? Or did Truex make him work for it?
Also, how are the there still walls without safer barriers? The hit Blaney took was completely unnecessary. I just hope he doesn't develop concussion symptoms over the following days.
Did Chastain cruise to the win? Or did Truex make him work for it?Also, how are the there still walls without safer barriers? The hit Blaney took was completely unnecessary. I just hope he doesn't develop concussion symptoms over the following days.
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Fitting win for Trackhouse and Chastain. For once, he didn't come in contact with anyone either.
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He made a couple of pushes to get close but couldn’t get closer then within a few car lengths of Chastain.I missed the last 30 or so laps thanks to the power randomly going out in the neighborhood. Of course it came back on after the finish.
Also, how are the there still walls without safer barriers? The hit Blaney took was completely unnecessary. I just hope he doesn't develop concussion symptoms over the following days.
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I’ve been twice. 2019 and 2022.
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I didn't know about this. That's tragic.
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Apparently, SAFER requires 100 feet of wall to be installed, and that section was less than that. The NASCAR senior VP of competition is looking into why other softer-wall technologies weren't used.
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There needs to be SOMETHING in front of those walls, whether it's a SAFER barrier or otherwise.
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Perhaps you should put pillows in front of the walls.
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Why is there even a limit on on how long the wall is before they’ll install crash abatement technology? I get that it appears the safer barrier cannot be installed on walls under 100 feet, but that doesn’t mean you just leave the shorter section unguarded.
