Buzzing from the Nascar industry, looking for a short track solution after the pitiful Bristol race

Last Saturday, the night race of Bass Pro Shops in Bristol left a sour taste in the mouth of the whole NASCAR industry, because once again, a short race on track did not give the excitement to which the fans have used these tight track races.

This has been the story of the nascar seventh generation car, however, despite multiple attempts in the past three seasons to modify aerodynamics on the racing car. Recently, however, the sanction organization worked with Goodyear to develop a different tire compound conducive to a better race.

The most difficult part of Saturday? Overall, the event had to be solid, because Nascar and Goodyear chose to bring the exact tire to the short half-mile that it made in March, which provided a record of 54 head changes and an extreme fall of the tire. So when it did not go, Everyone (including NASCAR) was confused.

Chris Gabehart, team leader of the Joe Gibbs Racing n ° 11, was honest about his thoughts after the race, To say that the show presented on Saturday in Bristol is about as competitive as you can expect that the racetrack is with the seventh generation vehicle.

“It’s too easy to drive, they are too close and you will not have so many better races. I’m sorry, you are not,” said Gabehart. “The background was good, the environment was good, the top was good, but they are all separated by Point-Orien, and physics is a stamp.”

Even with the “Tour de la series 12” which begins on Sunday at Kansas Speedway, Bristol remained the subject of button-chaud throughout the week, with several pilots, team leaders and former competitors weighing on the issue, with certain solutions which, according to them, would work better.

At the start of the week, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. said on his podcast That he “(done) do not see the short track races surviving this if they do not find a solution” and that “it is not out of the question to think that in a few years, the Martinsville and the Bristols will really hang on”.

Kyle Larson, winner of the Bass Pro Shops night race on Saturday, taken on social networks to share your thoughtsBoth on his experience with the current racing car and the competition in Bristol in general, where the double winner said that the track was always difficult to pass, and this race track was like that for a long time.

Larson’s post in the form of a test speaks of how Bristol always had more natural warnings because cars could get closer, causing wrecks, or the right tire would overheated, which would cause tire blowing, which would also attract caution. Although the Champion of the Nascar 2021 Cup series does not have the answer, he says that it is not a tire problem, so don’t blame Goodyear.

“Temper your expectations. We drive specific racing cars,” said Larson at the end of his post.

Cliff Daniels, Larson crew chief, also sounded on Thursday, With a post speaking of his ideal scenario with the Nextgen car, who says: “Mince about this. (The) old car and the current Xfinity, the dragging car can move the main car with air. The nose downwards and retreats it. (Nextgen) The races are the nose from top to bottom and the dragging car cannot fall back or pack the air towards the pyre of the leading car. We can work on the fact of allowing the car of the drag to “move”. Equation, but we have lost this dynamic in the car (the seventh generation). »»

This triggered a day’s interaction between Daniels and fans on social networks, where he offered a lot of positivity from everyone’s point of view, which is not very common in discussions like these, especially when they are held on social networks.

Daniels immersed himself in the positive points of the seventh generation racing car, speaking of the way in which intermediate and superspeedway races, as well as certain course events on the road, are better than what we had been provided under the old racing car.

“Let us continue to dig to improve (short tracks) and we will really have something,” And “Short track races need help, we are all on the same wavelength. This can be done. Continue to watch, continue to support and do not give up,” were one of the positive messages provided to the fans by the head of the race crew.

Ryan Bergenty, team leader of Todd Gilliland and first -row car sports, also started the conversation on Thursday, with a proposal for the sanction organization on how to make the race overall, whose strengths were 900 horsepower, a driving height rule and options, among other technical changes.

If there is one thing that has been clearly indicated with the back and forth of this week on social networks, it is because it does not lack ideas or objectives to improve the short-term NASCAR racing product with the Nextgen car.

It is clear that Nascar is trying to solve the problem, and the many tire and aerodynamic changes that have been theorized, tested or implemented since the start of the vehicle in 2022 proved that this was true. However, over time, it is becoming more and more obvious that the sanction organization must count on some of its most intelligent minds.