Why NASCAR’s Recent Officiating Blunders Need To Be ADDRESSED!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Yesterday as of recording this video the New Hampshire NASCAR Cup race had one of the more boneheaded officiating calls in recent memory. Unfortunately this is not a lone occurrence for the racing series. In the past year or so NASCAR has had numerous occasions of either bad calls or downright dangerous calls that have put their drivers in unnecessary danger. Today I want to pull all of these moments together to show why NASCAR's recent officiating blunders need to be addressed!
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In your opinion should NASCAR address these recent mishaps better?
Yes.
Absolutely
Not really it's bad but what can they do they fired workers who is supposed to tell them these things over the years and nothing change its like the refs in the NBA they got new ones evrry once in a while and nothing change
Absolutely. This is the worst officiated nascar season I've ever seen.
No suck it up
NASCAR: _no caution for rain until big crash…_
Also NASCAR: *_throws caution for a rainbow outside of turn one…_*
On a road course
Really? what race?
I believe the daytona road course
FIRE STEVE PHELPS AND EVERYONE ELSE IN CHARGE OF THIS SPORT! THIS IS ALL MANUFACTURED DRAMA JUST TO GET THEIR DYING PRODUCT TRENDING ON TWITTER! That's literally the ONLY reason Almirola won yesterday!
Nascar and thier fans are anti LGBTQI so it doesn't surprise me that a rainbow would scare them 😅🤣❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Let's not forget the uncontrolled tire that usually throws the caution, but they didn't until pit stops cycled, then threw it
I actually thought that was a good call
I was at the Daytona RC in the location where the said "rain" was at. I'll tell you now, it was raining, but it was so light I don't think it even qualifies as a light sprinkle.
NASCAR personnel cuts from last season is probably catching up with them.
NASCAR officiating has been questionable for YEARS!!!!!
It's part of the reason they've been declining in popularity.
Nascar was actually named sports league of the year this year.
@@ryandurst255 It was because they came back earlier from the pandemic than all of the others. The only other sports leagues in contention in that aspect were the UFC, the PGA, & if you count it, the WWE.
To be fair, what sport hasn't had officiating muddy the product in the past decade plus? Just 3 weeks ago, no NHL fan was talking about the prestige of winning the Stanley Cup, they were talking about the lack of direction with officiating in the playoffs
Not that I don't disagree with your sentiment on how NASCAR officiates their races but... You are not correct in NASCARS popularity. I feel like that is something older heads keep saying because NASCAR isn't the same anymore but NASCAR has never been so open arms about the community they bring in and has never been more diverse in their fan base. I believe they are doing well in that regard and are making moves to bring in a younger crowd. Problem is, you have the understanding of what NASCAR was in it's golden years and think that not having the same popularity is a failure. Motorsports is more niche than any other sport and ultimately has less fans around the world. Especially a fully American sport like NASCAR but like every other sport, popularity settles a bit. To think you were going to fill a quarter million seats every weekend for the next 50 years would be unintelligent. Yes NASCAR had it's hay day of bringing in as many fans as a football stadium because it was a spectacle and NASCAR was everywhere but ultimately... like any other sport, non die hard fans always leave. No offence but you sound like my father and I say the same thing... Your dead wrong. Believe me, I'm 26 years old and have been watching NASCAR since I practically popped out of my moms womb..... NASCAR is fine. Do I think it has it's flaws.. of course I do but people who just talk about how something is dead make no sense to me either. For such a dead sport it is weird to me the amount of time people spend taking shits, yet providing no intellectual problem solving methods that benefit. You may as well not even be in the comment section and watch a "more popular" sport.
@@lukazivkov960 I'll explain my perspectives further for you. I'm only a few years older than you. Like you, I too have watched NASCAR & other forms of racing since I can remember. To me, NASCAR has always been open to all people since the very beginning. There was a female in the first ever NASCAR race. There was already an African-American winner in the top division. NASCAR even went to other tracks outside of the supposed Southern roots. All of that before we were even though of. If NASCAR was as bad as those who don't know the sport as well as we do say it was, then I guarantee we would have *never* known the name Wendell Scott. We've always had the door open. It's up to other whether they want to go through that door or not.
Another truth is every sport is a niche sport, but some excel more than others. NASCAR just happens to be the motorsport that excelled in the 1980's-early 2000's. When NASCAR changed regimes to what is now known as "The Brainless France Era", that's when things started turning bad; Just doing change for the sake of change & not for the betterment & evolution of the sport. Over time another problem became even more apparent to old-school, new-school, & casual fan alike; Officiating inconsistencies & the fact it's become rampant. During NASCAR's heyday, the only time we had to worry about that was inconsistent calls that benefitted Dale Earnhardt Sr., & maybe another driver every once in a blue moon. But now it's mega-problematic & fans in all 3 categories are either mad, frustrated, or just laugh at NASCAR & leave.
Bringing in newer fans & a younger crowd is all fine, but trying to force the sport on them & neglecting current loyal fans isn't going to work. When you do that, you alienate your fan base, make them feel betrayed, & the "fans" you try to bring in leave anyway. It's even worse when you try to do it through pandering. That alienates people even more, & then no one wants to be apart of the sport & will advise people to turn away from it. When it comes to old-school/traditional fans, those who knew the bad stuff was coming left, & those who stay only do so because they want to have hope in NASCAR again... but eventually even those fans will reach a breaking point.
As for NASCAR dying, there are many times NASCAR, honestly, should have died; 2015 as a whole the best example. Heck if not for the fact I did videos constantly on it, I most certainly would have quit watching NASCAR altogether after the atrocity that was the entire 2015 season. There have been multiple multiple reasons why people have been leaving the sport: Bad officiating, change-change-change-change-change, noticeable favoritism towards specific teams &/or unpopular drivers, drivers retiring, money driver take over, bad commentary coverage (Looking at you FOX), pandering towards casual/non-fans, believes the sport is now embracing racism/sexism/secedism/heterophobia/propaganda/whatever else... NASCAR by itself used to be the 2nd biggest sport in the United States, & arguably the 2nd biggest motorsport in the world (Behind Formula 1). Nowadays NASCAR is seen as a laughing stock, & with it's notoriety in comparison to other motorsports, people outside of racing will think all motorsports are laughably bad because of NASCAR alone. It just goes on & on & on to eventually everyone will reach their breaking point & just stop watching (Like I nearly did after 2015).
NASCAR does need to fix all of that, but the damage has already been done, & it's unfortunate other motorsports had to suffer, mostly because of NASCAR's ineptitude. Can NASCAR fix it all? Yes, but that will take a long time & that's if they survive.
Of course it happens literally the week after drivers voiced their concerns about the Atlanta reconfiguration
Love how the broadcast barely touched on the fact nascar did this in Texas last year which you could say changed the championship 4 and seemed like people cared less about it then.
One way to fix the darkness problem is to require every track to have lights.
I think New Hampshire’s locals voted for them not to have lights. Also I know Dover can’t because they’re next to an Air Force base but as for the others definitely
If it gets to be a hot issue at some places, NASCAR can always be like we have other places that we can go that already have lights.
@@JeremyAsbridge Talladega would be great with lights, have a night race one of there two times and prevent rain delays for day races
It needs to be done - Any track without lights - NEEDS TO BE REQUIRED AND INSTALLED
@@TheIceberg it’s not necessarily the track can’t have lights, but rather the people who live in Canterbury, the next town over from Loudon, don’t want racing or any other form of loud events at the speedway happening after a certain time. I know this because prior to COVID happening last year the officials at New Hampshire were planning a weekend long country music festival at the track that would have gone well into the night, and the locals from Canterbury sued the track saying that this violated the agreement Bob Bahre made with them when he built the track.
2 major motorsports having major officiating issues. First NASCAR and now F1...
Beginning of the race: 😡😤🤬
End of the race: 😲😁🥲
At least the race ended on a positive. I loved it! Definitely in the top 3 best races of the year!
Absolutely! This race was so good! I don't understand why some people say things like "nascar sucks" or "nascar died when Dale Earnhardt did." I think nascar is just as relevant today as it was in the Earnhardt era. The racing is still pretty amazing.
@@BrandonP8176 100% agree. I get where those people are coming too, when they say those things. But it’s just not fully true, NASCAR is still awesome to this day!
@@BrandonP8176 NASCAR is no where near as relevant as it was in the late 90s and early 2000s. That's just an objective observation.
@@BrandonP8176 The racing can be good sometimes. But I believe the championship format, and stage racing has made a lot of these races inconsequential and overly gimmicky. The entertainment factor feels overly manufactured. Im still a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm nowhere near as invested as I was in the 2000s and mid 2010s.
As a New Hampshire resident, I almost feel proud that such a good race happened here
NASCAR officiating has almost always been a problem
Bingo! That’s what I posted before even seeing yours 😂. I said it’s been an issue since 1949 🤷♂️.
Honestly you can feel the tension between the drivers and nascar since the Atlanta repave, could we see another walk out like the 1st talladega race?
No maybe a couple vertian drivers but not all drivers. Plus the first boy cot was do to safety Atlanta was just because they love Atlanta this was kinda do to safety but it seems kfb and MTJ were more mad there shot at a w was gone
I doubt it since sponsors are paying way more than back then.
Not at all. These drivers have contractual agreements with Sponsors. They can't suddenly walk out like the good old boys did back in '69. Lawsuits would be an absolute disaster
@@braydenfletcher8159 you must go for morals sometimes in life.
Just to give my side, I was at NHMS for this race sitting in the grandstands in front of the restart zone. I did not feel a drop of rain until 30 seconds before they dropped the green flag. I hate to say it but I can see why the race went green, but I was surprised they didnt call it at lap 2 or 3 or even 4, because by then it was coming down decent. No excuse for it to go to lap 6!
They're going start changing once a driver, fan, official dies
That's what I'm afraid of. NASCAR will keep pretending that everything is alright as they make worse and worse decisions that compromise the safety of the drivers, the officials, and the fans, and eventually someone's going to get severely hurt, or worse. I really hope that they get their shit together before that.
And then they'll go too far the other way
I loved seeing Aric Almirola get a win yesterday, and Christopher Bell was extremely graceful in his post race interview, but I do believe they could have easily run those last 8 laps. And yeah Bell may have overtaken Aric in the end, but to me the right way to end that race would've been to run those remaining laps. I'm aware they don't have lights at New Hampshire, but as someone who lives on the East Coast it took nearly half an hour after the race ended to get substantially dark.
I was there at the race. I was on the front stretch stands halfway up. It was to dark because you couldn't read the numbers on the car. They should of stopped the race 50-30 laps before the schedule finish
@@coreyhess8721 The cameras make it look a lot brighter, that's crazy
Its less than 4 mins no reason they should have cut it short that close to the end
@@CRTracing69x yeah unless it started raining again I don't see how it can get too much darker in 4-5 minutes
@Anonymous Guy but he had the best strategy, a solid car, and won the race fairly, he may not be the best but he’s a 3 time cup series winner, how many times have you won?
It was raining in turn 1 for almost that whole 1st 9 laps. And the track was weeping. It has poured here for the last week straight.
Well despite the rain part the great race makes up for it
The race was absolutely incredible.
Indeed.
Facts.
Not if your name is Joe Gibbs, get real y'all, NASCAR needs constant criticism now with their constant screw ups.
Chicagoland 2019 never should of started… got 9 laps in and a massive thunderstorm hit. It was horrible from the fans point.
The Rain wind and lightning was extremely dangerous.
Most of us left thinking the race would be ran on Monday…. Nope nascar took 3-4 hours and got the track ready and started it.
Putting dirt over one of your best tracks is all you need to know that the leadership in NASCAR is clueless
That was more on Fox than NASCAR itself
But the race was good
A great race and Aric Almirola winning certainly made up for the abysmal officiating
It was a great race. Loved seeing Aric break through and get the dub!
@@TheIceberg Same here Especially considering that 2021 had been a full blown catastrophe for Aric
No, no, not at all. Hold them to account before it's too late.
I wasn't a Kyle Busch fan before this race but now I am.
I was at this race in person. I was sitting in Turn 1 where Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr wrecked. The rain did come down rather quickly, probably quicker than expected. Even the NBC commentators said that there was dryer track in 3 and 4 versus 1 and 2 that got soaked quick. The track color changed super quick. Nonetheless, I get Kyle’s frustration. I think NASCAR did the right thing by starting the race, as it wasn’t raining at the start. The track actually looked really good. As far as darkness, it was getting dark quick too, and the fact that it was cloudy didn’t help. It was darker in person than it looked on TV. I was listening to the scanner and spotters started saying it was getting very dark and they were having trouble, and that was still when the 21 was in the lead. NASCAR also had to give a 10-lap warning if they were calling the race early, so using the chatter and the darkness, I think they made the right call. Could they have made the last 8 laps? Probably, but who knows. Regardless, NASCAR did a good job using the spotters’ chatter to say “10 to go” and ultimately end the race.
Plot Twist: NASCAR went into the future and saw terrible racing so they waited till Busch and Truex spun out so that we would have great racing and a underdog winner instead of Kyle Busch or Martin Truex Jr
It was gods work letting KFB wreak out before the red flag
That garbage has 30 likes. Wow just wow.
One other example was the Ben Rhodes "Horn" sticking out of the front of his truck at Knoxville. I was so pissed seeing that not be brought in for safety. Especially with how those restarts were going
When the organization in charge of officiating is the same one in charge of the business of the sport, you're going to run into these kinds of problems. It's a major conflict of interest to have business interests managing the application of the safety and sporting regulations.
I was at the Daytona Road Course as a Elliott fan and it didnt rain there was mist but no rain at the grandstands.
Kyle Busch and the other drivers had every right to be furious towards NASCAR for this. There are times when someone needs to stand up to the sanctioning body and call them out on their bs, otherwise they'll keep making stupid calls without further consideration.
The xfinity roval race in 2020 was the best race that year, I still stand by that
Yeah i think the Roval was probably the limit of where racing in the rain can go, it was entertaining, challenging but you could race it as long as you weren't aggressive & the speeds weren't that high like COTA where there was the chance of a massive smash like Custer & MTJ
Having been at the race, I wanted them to go the last 8 laps but also had a feeling they would call it early.
Tyler Reddick's uncontrolled tire at Kansas was quite the debacle.
Honestly, you're underreacting. NASCAR, as a sport, has lost respect for the danger of the sport. Drivers driving through each other at 180 mph, making no attempt to race cleanly. Officials letting the field run green with a stopped car in the middle of the racing line. Track owners rebuilding their tracks to create more wrecks at the expense of good racing. Then there's the whole next gen crash test fiasco. It's been 20 years since we lost Dale, and everyone's gotten too complacent. This isn't going to end well if NASCAR doesn't pull a U turn very soon.
The crash test thing was overblown and largely untrue. Don't trust things you hear from reddit.
I said the same about F1 and NASCAR combined. Both sports have a select few drivers that don't know the difference between good, hard racing while still respecting your competitors and straight up dangerous driving. If things don't change soon I am sure we will restart the "lost time" counter.
I was at New Hampshire and I don't know why it started it was raining for about a hour before the start. They should have just delayed it by 2 and a half hours. It was a pretty good race otherwise tho.
In my opinion you are 300% correct. What’s worse is that in the New Hampshire race the race could have been completed with those 8 laps in just under 3 minutes and 20 seconds. That is more than plenty of time in my opinion.
At daytona it was probably raining on one half of the track and the other half was dry like normal super speedways when it rains
NH rain aparently was a cloud burst, said it caught em out, and I lean to believing them.
COTA was a low visibility rain road race, and was indeed approaching unacceptable levels. But MTJ and his wreck was plain poor wet weather driving on the part of the car he hit, braking mid straight 500 yards early in the rain is what I'd like to call a sea mine, very similar to that truck accident where they didn't throw the caution.
NASCAR needs a few things, officiating standards that dictate 'darkness' if it is X lumens outside on track/pit road, shorten the race to a final 10 laps or so.
Nascar needs to finally use those LEDs they tested in the ALL-STAR Bristol race as indicators on road courses or in the wet.
Finally, at road courses they need to use the marshaling system F1 uses, they stop extremely long caution periods for relatively fixable incidents, they help inform spotters, and even the HUD in the LCD screens can be used to directly inform the drivers on their dash without the need of a spotter to relay flag info, combined with the LEDs possibly changing color both technologies can relay information, improve safety, and the visual experience the same way they do in IMSA, WEC, F1 and many other series.
I wish Nascar would shorten more racecs like Loudon beimg a 300 mile race.
Shorter races = more action.
Not every race needs to be a 500 mile endurance slog, we aren't the WEC. Events like the Daytona 500 and Coke 600 get kinda diminished when the weekly 3/2 miler gets 500 mile events. Most events can do without the first stage, just delete it, move the remaining stage break to halfway through, and it makes more sense to pay out points halfway through the race.
That dirt race almost seriously injured drivers in those "1 or 2 wrecks" in hindsight that race should have never been when compared to that Xfinity monsoon race like get real
As someone who was at the race in New Hampshire, there was enough light to see.
But as someone who bet on Aric Almirola, it was pitch black.
It's definitely been an issue for quite a while. The 2001 All Star Race, Fall Kansas 2007, the 2009 Daytona 500, and 2014 Coke Zero 400 all come to mind quickly. I went to Daytona for the 500 in 2009. It was raining for quite a few laps before they threw the yellow. But it has been getting much more frequent with NASCAR being inconsistent. They've been quick to call some races when the track was salvageable. And they have dragged out others, even long after the track was lost.
11:32 look how much brighter the pit lollipops are compared to everything else. I think the cameras were making it look brighter than it was, and by the time Aric was in victory lane, it was too dark. Now imagine a GWC, and you’ve got trouble
It definitely was dark, I saw Nate Ryan say though that they admitted they could’ve let it go the distance. I feel like this one was kinda like 2015 Martinsville
I don't blame NASCAR I blame people who work for NASCAR who is bad at communicating
agree
So basically nascar
@@crouchb15 no " track spotters" and the pace car driver they work for NASCAR and apart of there jobs is to tell NASCAR to throw a caution so they are bad not " people in suits sitting in sweats"
The start of the first truck race heat at bristol wasn't raining. I was there, it was clear until they decided to work the track back in. Now the surface was soaked from the rains the night before though.
NASCAR only cares about the "show" and the ONLY way they will listen is if every driver would have pulled into pit road, PARKED and got out of the cars. and flat out REFUSE to race till conditions improve. the drivers need a UNION for this stuff.....
NASCAR would kick out any drivers that attempt to form a union, they did so against the stars of the 1950's.
Hey! I was at that Daytona road course race! I can answer that! It WAS raining. In the grandstands...You could see where the line of storms was. It was right over the trioval, but other than that, it didn't look like a shower that covered the entire track. Kind of atypical Florida.
I was at the New Hampshire race they could not run the last 8 laps I was surprised that they could even see at the finish
Here's the thing, you're absolutely right @11:00. Almost anyone in the world of "safety" or "compliance" has a set of "standards". Like, "If I can't legibly read a sign with 1" tall letters from 100' " then the race has to stop cuz it's too dark, or whatever. "If a sheet of paper bleeds ink after 60 seconds, it's too much precipitation." Or something like that. It doesn't matter "what" the standard is; but ya gotta have one. There's a standard so everyone knows what to expect. NASCAR just seems to wing it from week to week and doesn't have a lot of regard for their own accountability. Standards protect everyone.
Was at the race, definitely shouldn’t have started when they did it was a hard rain in 1 and 2 on pace laps, as for the ending it was 50/50 I can confirm it was much darker than TV made it look, however I think we still had four minutes of daylight left to complete 8 laps
Maybe some bias here because I'm a KFB fan but I was upset when NASCAR let them go green. They say they couldn't see anything from the tower but on tv we can see the cameras getting more water on them and they have access to cameras not just scanners. They blew it plain and simple
Plus you didnt even mention the Tire debacle at Kansas. If it is safe for 25 laps its safe for the rest of the race
NASCAR needs to improve with alot of stuff mainly safety. When I saw cole custer and Truex's wreck at cota I thought "It wouldve been way worse if it was a dry race". Look at COTA, 3.4 mile long road course track. One big flaw with it being the barriers. the entire barriers down the back straight are metal except for edges of where track marshalls can enter the course.
Before the race I even thought that most of the mayhem would be up towards turn 1. Only time will tell when all the drivers decide to go down pit road at once and stop racing when something like sunday happens
Friend of mine pointed this out:
"The race getting cut short last night may have been forced by the track, rather than NASCAR.
NHMS's agreement with the town prohibits racing after 8:30 pm, for noise reasons. I'd assume that includes things like burnouts and cars driving around the garage area, so they needed to make sure everything was wrapped up by then. They called 10 to go with barely 20 minutes to the deadline."
That said, 20 minutes is more than enough time to run 18 laps.
Unless there was a caution within those 18 laps
I honestly don’t have a problem with this call. People knit-pick NASCAR’s decisions too much. First they’re overly cautious, now they’re not cautious enough. It’s up to us as fans and up to the drivers too not to send mixed signals.
Three Thoughts: 1. Say what you want, but I think it was amusing that the week after Kyle called out "Wrecky Spinhouse," he wrecked and finished last. Stenhouse finished the race.
2. Kyle crashed out because he was first, but also because maybe other drivers recognized that it was a dodgy track and were a little more careful. It's no surprise that Hamlin saved his care from the wall and finished well; he's just a more careful driver.
3. Kyle should have been suspended for trying to intimidate the pace car. He might be NASCAR's best driver, but he certainly is in the top 30 of class acts.
Class don't pay, Winning does. Fans like you are the problem, hold the bastards to account. I boycotted last year, and am heading towards never again. It ain't Winston Cup no more. Sad just sad.
1. Amp up officiating and punish those who are incompetent.
2. Get rid of stages
3. Fire David Hoots
4. Stop having your final lap ruined by sponsors
5. And speaking of sponsors, have up to two and be done with it.
Those are the first five things I would change to Nascar
They should've went time + 2 laps. Not pick some random ass point to say 10 to go.
If they are going to do dirt races they need to remove the window. No dirt race car has one. Maybe also redesign the cars to suit dirt racing so it doesn't affect the cooling of the car
I was there at Loudon and 2 things are true. The race should never have gone green when it did, but when it did, it was AWESOME
NASCAR IS GOING TO GET SOMEONE HURT THIS SEASON mark my words they have made for too many bad calls this year
It’s nothing short of a miracle that nobody got hurt at COTA
Recent officiating blunders more like this has been the case for fifty years Nascar is as consistent as the God damn Weatherman is at predicting the weather.
I agree with you. They need to learn and do better and not doing stupid stuff. Safety is more important than the race itself.
The problem is David Hoots retiring. He ran the officiating tower for years with minimal problems (no one’s perfect and there has been some races officiated by Hoots that were shit shows like Kansas 07) and finally retired after 2019, and his replacement John Darby has botched some pretty big calls. Scott Miller really doesnt have much to do with it other than being the fall guy for what happens in the tower
Let’s not forget the spin on the track that didn’t have a caution thrown for it. The spin didn’t call for a caution but they have thrown the caution for less in the past.
Don’t forget the loose tire on pit road they didn’t throw the caution for
You aren't over reacting. You are absolutely correct about Harvick slapping the wall while leading at Texas last fall cost him the championship.
I was at the race track on the front stretch. Before the command it was sprinkling. When it was green I was wearing a poncho. The race should never had started. If the race started at 1 pm like it use to then they could of got the hole race in. The track was dry at 1 and I sat there for almost 3 hours before rain
As someone who was there yesterday, no way in hell the race should have started. Clearly raining
I was with you until you criticized giving 10 to go for darkness. 1) Network cameras open the iris to make it seem brighter. 2) If a caution would’ve happened, what next? It was 8:15 pm at the most northern US track, this debate is ridiculous.
Its literally every other week we just get an awful call
I remember during the 2018 clash at Daytona they left the cars out on the track for a long time as well.
2019 clash^
You're over-reacting a little imo because COTA was the first ever Cup Series rain race and the decision to call the race yesterday at Loudon 8 laps early was not a big deal
Fact
I agree with some when they say besides the rain deal at the beginning, that race was so great that it made up for it. Is was that incredible of a race.
At least Brian France isn't calling the shots anymote
Jim France is though.
How come NASCAR just doesn't use rain tyres?
We've got them in Supercars and to be fair, it's not really a problem. How come teams don't have sets of rain tyres on hand?
as an F1 fan i think i can speak for the rest of us when I say we feel you on stewards/officials making stupid calls!! really frustrating
i dont think you're overreacting tho, they should've delayed the race at Louden, and COTA should probably have been called a lot earlier really. There's been stuff in F1 recently putting drivers at risk too. It might be down to losing old guard officials that remember the days when driver deaths were frequent and newer people not really appreciating the danger of motorsports. That's how it seems in F1 anyway
I overall agree with you. One thing I do not understand is that they care about safety why did they take action sooner? I need the best of the rest of the year was either Nashville or Road America even though all the races this year we’re good
I was at the race and my car was only about a 5 minute walk from where we were sitting. We left as soon as aric crossed the finish line and by the time we got to our car, 5 minutes away, it was pitch black dark out. I think they made the right call ending it when they did
I mean if Nascar used any form of "stock car" these issues would be almost redundant I understand y they don't but still in the 90s or early 2000s the dirt track would of been better with higher supension
Not an over reaction I feel the same Nascar is screwing up.
Their officiating has been bad since 1949
NASCAR YT and sensationalism. Name a more iconic duo
Teams in the front truex mainly if it rains or Speculation of rain should go to the back just in case of slip track
as an outside observer who does not watch nascar but grew up in family who does, this looks like a system where they want to hype up the excitement and have more crashes for the audience. driving on wet roads is the easiest and cheapest way to get spinouts and crashed. "hey is it just so happens to rain during race, it will be more exciting."
now, this most likely is absolutely wrong but if i was a soulless money monger that saw drivers as expendable characters for a show why not risk their safety for entertainment.
i was there. they couldve run the extra 8 laps. they run laps there in 29 seconds so it wouldve taken under 4 minutes to finish and it wouldnt have gotten any darker
This, plus possible safety issues with NextGen, and Atlanta safety issues makes for some unhappy drivers, I'm sure.
I've said it before and I'll say it again....NASCAR's loyalty is to the tv networks and sponsors, drivers and fans be damned!
4:30 Dave Moody is the type of guy who would say it is not raining at the track because it's not raining where HE is at
Dave Moody is not a reliable source either since he's a clown.
I certainly don't agree with many of Nascar's calls but I mean they do let pretty much anything go out on the track between drivers. Nothing is ever too far and they did just stop Atlanta's race to repair the track and you sure don't see anyone saying "Great call Nascar, that could have been a real mess".
I'm going to guess the rain issues isn't so much Nascar making dumb decisions but rather listening too much to it's TV partners who pay millions each week to get as much racing as possible
NASCAR should've just called off the start of the race when the rain came. Or better yet, start the race at "NOON"
Did you say how good they are? Do you crash your car when it rains? No, what do you do? Drive to the conditions, if you drive too fast in the dry, you crash. Now what happens if you drive to fast in the wet, ummmmm I dunnno, I'm a nascar driver.
I can say I was at the race and it was raining well before the race start
I was there and it did not rain from about noon til the race started.
Why do I have a bad feeling that they'll do this sort of thing again & then a driver gets hurt?
I hope that it doesn't, but they are so stupid this year especially.
It was absolute bullshit for NASCAR to go to single file restarts for the 2nd half of the Bristol dirt race, it’s like NASCAR wanted to virtually hand Karen Logano the win.
NASCAR needs to fix the officiating NOW. There will always be bad calls in sports, but 2020 and 2021 have just been unfair and unsafe.
I'm not a Kyle Busch fan whatsoever but I do completely understand his frustration. The officials need to stop worrying about getting a race in and focus on driver safety.
Note, I really love NASCAR, but out of an european perspective I have some toughts on it. @4:25 I tought on road courses there they have wipers and as you already mentioned they can change tires, so what´s the real matter here? @5:41 Maybe they should add wipers and spray to their set ups so that at least the drivers can see something. I mean, the grills may bee still full of mud, but maybe NASCAR gets innovative with that. @6:45 actually I tought they have mirrors on road courses and don´t need spotters like in any other league but there I might be wrong. So with less visibility should rise the caution and with merely no spotter who can´t see the driver the more they gotta be careful. It´s not flat footed like on oval. So with that points NASCAR has to adapt to the very danger and manner of road racing. Maybe they should stop thinking: "We did that always like this" and watch more to other leagues like imsa or even WHELEN. Any leauge has its very beauty and strengh but safety is universal and fun also ;) @8:24 NASCAR and the drivers really are not only the spotters, so if something like this happens, a yellow should be thrown Immediately, especialy on ovals where there is constantly high speed. But even the drivers should be more aware as they not only rely on the spotters. As like: when there is no caution and the spotter says nothing, I only go for points and hold on. Don´t get me wrong here, they are all pos and know what they do, but maybe sometimes the routine sets in and under some circumstances this may happen. @9:30 Rain during oval with this tires, That is unacceptable! This could be avoided and fortunately lead to no mayor injuries or else!
I was at xfinity roval race and oh my god it was brutal
That wasn't a race track, it was a floodplain.
@@SamnissArandeen we were at our hotel having to blow dry our clothes we were so soaked
Me: That was a great race!
Wife: Where were they racing?
Me: New Hampshire.
Wife: You must be having a stroke. I’m dialing 911.
Maybe there’s hope for a decent Michigan race?
If they would not run the 550 package, I think the racing would be great at Michigan.
@@conniesanders5928 I haven’t been a fan of Michigan races since I started watching NASCAR in the 90s… back before they started monkeying around with the tapered spacers. Maybe you are right, though. I NEVER expected to enjoy a cup race from NHIS.