🗣 'We can’t be trusted, clearly' 🤯 Denny Hamlin admits NASCAR's drivers did a poor job on restarts at the end of the COTA Cup Series race on Sunday, but if the sanctioning body doesn't care why should they? OPINION 👇
as being late-race wreck initiators. Of his own approach, he explained: “I try my best not to be on this list of idiots being responsible for wrecks, but if you get the shitty end of the stick you can decide you’re not going to be the guy getting used up next time.” Hamlin later admitted he was ready to wreck Jordan Taylor if he’d got the chance!
“I thought it was an Indy Road Course problem, but it’s anywhere you have an extended distance from the restart zone to Turn 1, which is a stop [heavy-braking zone].”How to solve this in future? Firstly, Denny suggested adopting single-file restarts for the final 10 laps, with NASCAR having done that at the inaugural Bristol dirt race when that event threatened to go off the rails.
These problems don’t happen so much at Sonoma, Watkins Glen or even at the tight confines of the Charlotte Roval, and I believe it’s that extra distance – coupled with the tight apex – that promotes the unnecessary contact.
“There is a line. The teams and drivers understand for the most part where that line is, and if we see something that is blatantly obvious then we’re going to get involved, but we want the drivers to be able to handle that.”The initial start, and three earlier restarts, were all very sensible – with even four- or five-wide groups of cars able to negotiate their way around the tight left-hander with little more than a harmless rub of body panels.
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