I’ve always said, ‘All right, go strap in this thing and go wreck it at 160 (mph) with the old car and then go wreck this new one at 160 and you tell me how you feel after the hit.’ You’re gonna know it’s harder. “No one from NASCAR is strapping in and going and feeling these hits. Heck, you had guys saying right away in preseason testing like, ‘These hits feel a lot harder than what it was last year,’ and to us it’s frustrating that no one listened or believed because we’re the only ones who feel these hits. “The unfortunate side is we knew about this stuff before coming into this year and we thought it would be OK and it wasn’t,” Blaney said.
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Ryan Blaney said drivers met last week at Talladega to present a unified front in the meeting.Īmong the NASCAR representatives present were NASCAR chairman Jim France, president Steve Phelps and the leaders of the Next Gen project. We just want the car to help us out where we’re not absorbing as much.”īusch, who will miss his 12th consecutive race, attended the meeting. “But our body seems to be absorbing the majority of the impacts instead of the car absorbing the impacts. You look from the outside and you watch crashes and it doesn’t look like anything is happening,” Bell said. “We just want to feel less inside the car. But the impacts to the rear of the cars have been jarring, and after claiming they’ve complained to NASCAR during the entire design process that the Next Gen is too stiff, the drivers finally snapped after Bowman’s concussion two weeks ago and went public with their concerns. The car has proven to be safer in many areas and drivers believe they will be protected in catastrophic crashes. One of the main goals of the Next Gen was to cut costs and in doing so, the new car was made to be durable and withstand crashes without being destroyed so that teams need only a seven-car fleet for the 38-race season. I believe that they had a much larger presentation available to us, but we got stuck in open conversation that took up the majority of the time.”ĭrivers said NASCAR presented them with data from Wednesday’s crash test and outlined the improvements found in the exercise.
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NASCAR did a good job of trying to answer the questions asked, but you can tell that there’s frustration,” driver Christopher Bell said. “It was definitely tense from the driver side. NASCAR had a slide presentation prepared, but two different drivers likened the session to an episode of “Seinfeld.” Erik Jones described it as an “airing of grievances” while Brad Keselowski, driver and part-owner of RFK Racing, said “everybody had a little bit to say, this may be a little bit of a Festivus.”
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It’s the first time in at least two decades that three full time Cup drivers will miss a race. Those parts are too stiff right now and drivers have complained all season they are feeling the force from routine crashes more than before.Īlex Bowman and Kurt Busch are both sidelined with concussions suffered in crashes in the Next Gen, and Cody Shane Ware won’t race Sunday because he has a broken foot that would be under too much strain on Charlotte’s hybrid road course/oval circuit. It said it expects a new rear clip, rear bumper structure and center section on next year’s Next Gen car.
NASCAR’s top leadership held a 75-minute meeting ahead of Saturday’s practice at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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