Why was Watkins Glen viewed as a letdown? It's hard to look much further than the Next Gen car as the answer.
Those two statistics don’t tell the story of whether a race was good or bad, because last week’s race at the Indianapolis road course was viewed favorably despite similar numbers. But Watkins Glen was a letdown, so it’s worth exploring why.Distance was too short.
Granted, this is unlikely to happen. The price of developing a new car would be sky high, take many years and teams would have to buy all sorts of different parts when the entire purpose of the Next Gen concept was billed as a cost-savings measure . And acknowledging the on-track disappointments of this car would be a blow, particularly when it is essentially performing as designed on road courses.
How do you feel about your chances of making the playoffs at this point, facing a must-win situation at Daytona?Look, the odds are not great, right? We’ll go there and do everything we can to win. But the chances of it actually happening are pretty low. And no one should feel sorry for us; we’ve put ourselves in this spot. Once I came back, we knew we’d have to win. I told you guys that again and again when you asked. I’ve never wavered on that. But we’re not running how we want or expect to.
Since moving to 23XI racing at the start of the 2021 season, Wallace has led at least one lap in nine of his 10 starts at Daytona and Talladega. During that time, he ranks second in average finish on those superspeedways .But Wallace’s results at the two tracks have been boom or bust. He has three finishes of second or better but also been outside of the top 15 six times.
• After that, there are two options: If Gibbs hasn’t wrecked out, Wallace can try to play the points situation and hope for the best with a repeat winner — or if Gibbs is eliminated, Wallace can race as hard as possible to try to win it himself. Granted, the two drivers have a long and bitter history. They do not like each other one bit. Regardless, NASCAR shouldn’t allow this type of “racing” for a win. Blatantly taking out the leader should result in some sort of penalty, such as being sent to the back of the field; it shouldn’t be rewarded with the opportunity to do burnouts and celebrate in victory lane.for taking out teammate Brandon Jones to win at Martinsville.
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