Denny Hamlin said Sunday that NASCAR president Steve Phelps is needed at the top of the sanctioning body's leadership just a day after saying that NASCAR needed 'new leadership.'
"It just blows me away that we can have something new in 2022 that offers all of this technology and all of this time and experience of so many super talented people in this sport and we allow it to go backwards, especially with safety," Talladega winner and 2020 Cup Series champion Chase Elliott said on Saturday."It’s just super surprising to me that we allow that to happen.
The new Cup car appears to be far more rigid than its predecessor. And car rigidity has an inverse correlation with force dissipation. The less force absorbed by the car means the more force absorbed by a driver's body. Teams have also had issues with the cars catching on fire. Both Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr.to describe parts failures on their cars. The new Cup car is largely built from single-source vendors approved by NASCAR and not by parts designed and built by teams themselves.
NASCAR has said that a test is scheduled this week for a new rear clip that could potentially absorb more impact. But that test is too little too late for any improvements in 2022. And that lack of immediate change is likely a big reason why NASCAR doesn’t want its drivers’ comments about the lack of safety of the new car to overshadow the five remaining races in the playoffs.
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