re: 2023 NASCAR Season Thread - 2023-24 Offseason

F1 went EV (albeit in a separate series) and its ok.

I think as long as it's a separate series (like xfinity level) it should be fine. You'd need to have shorter races which could help viewership.

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you say you wanted electric NASCAR? Because THATS WHAT THEY HEARD YOU SAY.

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I posted that about 10 posts ago. If they ever go electric I’m 100% out. Where will their fans come from? At least now they have noise to keep the fans awake in boring races just imagine a quiet race lol. What a joke that would be. The electeic races overseas are like F1, the real race is qualifying. At least in nascar you can win from the back and back is like 36th too. You would have to create a whole new fanbase.

In successful families its said every new generation does worse than the prior one. We’re on our 3rd generation of Bill France and its showing.

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We’re on our 3rd generation of Bill France and its showing.

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Just third? I was thinking 4th.

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its shite. Sounds like golf carts racing

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Yeah. I tried watching a couple races and found it funny seeing majority of the field almost running out of battery within the last 2-3 laps of the race.

Bob Pockrass
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If I did math right -- Alex Bowman drops from first to 23rd in the standings; William Byron from fourth to 29th; Kyle Larson from fifth to 32nd; Haley now 49th in points (-40). ... Chase Elliott actually moves up from 29th to 26th.

It is the biggest combined fine to one organization in NASCAR history. NASCAR has issued bigger fines for individual violations but a $400,000 combined fine to one organization is the largest.

Ironic.

But to me the L2 is too harsh because they never raced those cars in a race. It was found in practice and should be an L1 not L2. Last year Kes raced his car and got L2. JMO

They could appeal all at once to have time to plan. Could appeal some not all and allow 9 CC to take the hit now. Will be interesting since the nascsr part never fit right.

I don’t like Hamlin but don’t like his fines. Nascar likes rivalries yet stops it with points/fines for an after rsce podcast. The podcast helps draw/keep fans. And both drivers made peace after race.

Hendrick statement:

We are disappointed with today’s decision by NASCAR to issue penalties and have elected to appeal based on a variety of facts that include:

• Louvers provided to teams through NASCAR’s mandated single-source supplier do not match the design submitted by the manufacturer and approved by NASCAR

• Documented inconsistent and unclear communication by the sanctioning body specifically related to louvers

• Recent comparable penalties issued by NASCAR have been related to issues discovered during a post-race inspection

For the March 19 NASCAR Cup Series event at Atlanta Motor Speedway, our organization has made the strategic decision not to request deferral of personnel suspensions. Team rosters for this weekend will be updated as soon as substitute crew chiefs are determined.

Also from Hendrick: NASCAR identified louvers on our race cars during a voluntary inspection 35 minutes after the opening of the garage and prior to on-track activity. NASCAR took possession of the parts approximately four hours later with no prior communication.

Up to this point Denny has been all talk about payback. He did try to slow him down at Gateway last year I believe. Other than that it’s been a lot of “I’m gonna get ya” type talk.
Truex is the same way…”he won that battle but won’t win the war”. Nothing ever happened there either. We need more drivers like Ross and Matt Kenseth that just do what they want on the racetrack. Other drivers will react when they’ve had enough. That’s exactly what we want and need.