Martin Truex Jr. won in NASCAR’s exhibition return to the Coliseum — a caution-filled spectacle that featured a Wiz Khalifa halftime show.
NASCAR pit crews are being overhauled as more teams are turning to former college athletes to give teams an edge. The NASCAR race for diversity program has helped.If you like bumper-to-bumper traffic, slow-speed pursuits and a lot of accidents, the Coliseum event was a dream come true. What the race didn’t have, though, was long periods of green-flag racing.Bubba Wallace
Added third-place finisher Kyle Busch, Dillon’s teammate with Richard Childress Racing: “I would call it a disaster with just the disrespect from everybody and just driving through each other and not just letting everything kind of work its way out. But I mean, it’s a quarter-mile. It’s tight-quarters racing.”
Asked when he knew the race would be that way, Bowman chuckled. “When they built a track on a football field,” he said, adding: “Maybe it got a little out of hand.”
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