Whats the excuse this time Nascar

you slow the cars down, 2 cars still flip and Newman has a very close call in not being here anymore.

you claim to enforce a bump-drafting rule and will penalize, yet all they did was warn and let these major wrecks happen AGAIN!!!! as the bumping got outta hand late in the race.



whats next, gonna slow the cars down again in Daytona next year, more bogus blocking warnings. hmmm maybe its the car, maybe its the wing (oh wait it is the WING!!!!).

Newman told it best in his interview.


Maybe Nascar should just take Talladega off the schedule until they can find something to break the cars up and not let them race in these big packs.

No tape on the grill, no rear wing, narrower tyres? Obviously the problem is the banking and the fact that the cars have too much power and grip/downforce on the track. Restricting the power doesn't seem to work too well, so how about restricting the grip?

Worst race of the year.

The race was a farce, the Chase is a farce, and Nascar is a farce. I am pissed at how they have ruined what once was good racing.

Newman did the best interview i have seen in years
right next to Sterling Marlin interview after the 2nd dega race in 2001
"well let's go to daytona and wreck again"

i guess we need to wait till the next driver gets killed at plate racing till nascar can fix it.
speaking of 2001, after the great loss of Dale.E. i know nascar did everything to make the cars and driver more safe. and i agree on that..but lookin back now i wish they also put some time into fixing the rules at plate racing for the "big one" and cars fliping won't happen. we lost one of the greats. we don't need to lose more

I think the drivers can control things quite well without being told by NASCAR not to bump draft in the corners. I also think they could avoid a lot of wrecks too. They just don't. When give and take becomes grab and go, the big wrecks happen.

AT some point, the drivers should look in the mirror for some of the messes that occur. That said, I am more of the late David Poole's philosophy that this form of racing is a little stupid. Dega doesn't reward a good handling car since anyone can hold the foot on the mat all the way around. Daytona being narrower and a little more handling focused I can live with. Dega? If it wasn't so damned expensive, I would tear the banks down but I think there is a large number of fans that would lynch me afterwards. I don't see a solution to this one...

RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 U.S. ARMY IMPALA SS

INVOLVED IN MULTI-CAR CRASH, LANDING UPSIDE DOWN IN THE CAR -- Finished 36th: HOW ARE YOU FEELING? "Pretty sore. Just really disappointed. We had this race back here in the spring and complained about cars getting airborne and now ironically I'm the guy that gets upside down. I had the roll bars down on top of my helmet and stuck upside down inside my U.S. Army Chevrolet. It's just disappointing. I wish NASCAR would do something. It was a boring race for the fans. That's not something anybody wants to see at least I hope not. If they do, go home because you don't belong here.

"It's just a product of this racing and what NASCAR has put us into with this box and these restrictor plates with these types of cars. You know with the yellow line, no bump-drafting, no passing. Drivers used to be able to respect each other and race around each other. Richard Petty, David Pearson and Bobby Allison and all those guys have always done that. I guess they don't think much of us anymore."

WHEN YOU WERE UPSIDE DOWN YOU DIDN'T RESPOND TO YOUR TEAM RIGHT AWAY, CAN YOU TAKE US THROUGH THOSE MOMENTS? "It knocked the antennae off the car. When they rolled the car back over the antennae wire connected and I criticized what was going on. It's no fun. It's disappointing. There's no good part of it. It's not even a good race for the fans and that's who we're trying to service is the fans. They can stand up and cheer when there is three to go with the green-white-checker. We're supposed to be racing all day long and I think we lost a little bit of that luster."

WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WALK BACK HERE TO THE MEDICAL CENTER AND SEE YOUR WIFE KRISSIE, WE TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE THE RACE? "I was glad to see her. I mean its emotional just like we talked about but it's not the way I wanted to see her after the race. I just got to thank ButlerBuilt, Simpson Race Products and all the guys at the shop and Hendrick Chassis what they do to make the cars safer. When I hit the roll cage and landed on my head I was a little worried and I was happy to be able to walk out of that in a roundabout way."

WHAT HAPPENED? "Just a byproduct of Talladega racing. Unfortunately. We got hit from behind that turned me sideways then I got up in the air and just kept flipping and flopping. Unfortunately, the cage came down on top of my head and I couldn't get out. Tough situation with the US Army Chevrolet. It was a boring race and it was a ridiculous race. To see 43 cars run single file is not showed up here today for. We'll see what happens."

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE RULE ENFORCEMENT EXPLAINED IN THE DRIVER'S MEETING THIS MORNING? "The more rules, the more NASCAR is telling us how to drive the race cars, the less we can race and the less we can put on a show for the fans. As I said, I will go back in the day, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip, all those guys, they respected each other. In the end there were some big accidents, but geez, we don't need the cars getting upside down like this. This is ridiculous. There is way more technology than that to help us out. Whether it is a speed issue, a roof flap issue, whatever. I said it myself in the media center after the Spring race here, and now to be the guy standing here trying to live it all out again, I'm just happy I am living it out. But it is ridiculous situation. It is a shame that not more is getting done. I don't know. I guess maybe I expect NASCAR to call me. I am the only guy out there with an engineering degree. I would like to have a little respect on my end.

WHY DON'T YOU GO TALK TO THEM? "I am not going to talk to them. I just doesn't matter."

DID NASCAR CREATE THE BOREDOM OF TODAY'S RACE? "They have created a lot of the boredom because we couldn't race. It is survival. The race could have been 100 laps long and we could have had a great race. It is just not the way it is and it is unfortunate. I just hate it for the fans."

Why don't they just take the plates off and eliminate the 25 lowest rows on the grandstand?.

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Originally Posted by Alexamateo

Why don't they just take the plates off and eliminate the 25 lowest rows on the grandstand?.

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i was thinking the same thing when Tony and Johnson went hiding to the back and said "30 to go i will race" i was thinking then, you know if they took the plates off guys could never pull this **** i know nascar says the speed is to high, but if the IRL cars race 220 on almost every track, whats the best the nascar speeds could be? maybe 212? i know nascar still goes on about bobby allison wreck but if the COT car is as great and safe as nascar loves to say, we should have no problem

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Originally Posted by Alexamateo

Why don't they just take the plates off and eliminate the 25 lowest rows on the grandstand?.

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Bulldoze the banks. Why have banking so you can go faster and then put on plates to make you go slower. Flatten the track and then there will be sane racing.

Very glad to see that Newman was OK. I'm not sure what kind of racing that was today but, as someone that occasionally enjoys restrictor plate racing, this was one of the worst in a long time. My first preference would be to take down the banking, second preference would be to go back to the racing they had a few years ago, and the worst solution was the "show" they put on today. Still unsafe, and not even entertaining to watch.