Denny Hamlin dropped his podcast on Monday, the next day Daytona 500 To say that he “loses his love” for his sport because luck has become more important that competence in Nascar Cup Racing.
Hamlin underlined the Daytona 500, which again included an end -of -race accident, as an example for what harms the racing at the highest level.
William Byron crossed the wreck to win the Daytona 500 for the second consecutive year. He passed the three best drivers on the way to the finish line.
“Let’s start to see the winners of Dayton 500 as we question our champions,” said Hamlin on his “Actions prejudicial to the Podcast Denny Hamlin. “It’s a bunch of questions now. It’s” yeah, but “and I hate it for the winners because it’s their big moment to shine … but I hate luck in luck in Nascar now. “
Hamlin managed to avoid two accidents from several cars at the end of the Sunday race, but found himself next to Austin Cindric during the last round before being removed by contact from behind and finishing 24th.
Instead of making strategic driving movements at the end a race to win, Hamlin said it was more important now to avoid late chaos that comes most often.
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“It is,” Wow this guy did something that is difficult to do, it shows that it is better than the others, “we lost that,” said Hamlin. “It’s just a question of wrecks at Superspeedways and Daytona 500 is a microcosm of sport in general with regard to the way we crowd our champions now.”
The problem, Hamlin said, started in 2015 when Nascar began to reduce the power of horses by saying that it was in the interest of safety, engine life and facilitating cars to control for drivers .
In reality, low horse engines have made more difficult for drivers to develop the type of skills necessary to make strategic movements, mainly with regard to the passage, while increasing the probability of more wrecks, said Hamlin . And the wrecks translate into entertainment for many.
“The entertainment of this one has largely exceeded sport, and I do not know how we reverse things,” said Hamlin. “You will hear the media week,” it’s just superspeedway racing “, and all that is a cop for those who make stupid movements. No one is responsible for anyone. We really call what it is?
How bad is it?
“I lose my love for sport because I have the impression that it goes by the way to the entertainment,” said Hamlin.
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