Looks like the new thing is the front left fender flaring out real wide is the new thing or am I just noticing it now?
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Looks like the new thing is the front left fender flaring out real wide is the new thing or am I just noticing it now?
Been that way last couple years. Some more than others.
It was extreme on a lot of cars last night. Francis better get a hold of it or by the time they roll into east bay it may be to late
Yeah Francis was supposed to tech them a lot harder when he took that position.
I think things are getting a little out of hand. They don't even look like cars anymore. i would like to see them look like they did about fifteen years ago.
More often than not, the sanctioning bodies talk tough about enforcing the rules , but then let things go thru tech. There are aero rules in place , but racers bend the rules past the acceptable limit and still race.
The bodies now a days look completely ridiculous. A complete abortion. The right front jacked up in the air, the front of the right side tucked in 10" or more behind the tire and the left side of the car looking like a dang boomerang. It would be nice if they would get the bodies under control.
Making the bodies straight and symmetrical is what needs to happen. The chances of that actually happening are very, very slim.
I watched Terbo drive in circles to the right Saturday night while was Randall standing on the LR corner of the car. The lucas officials stood about 75ft away and watched it all go down. They measured the deck height, and gave him a thumbs up to go on for the lineup.
I'm not pointing the finger at Terbo or Randall either one, they all do it, it's the lack of enforcement from the officials. No way the cars pass tech without them doing what they do. 95% of the time, the officials watch these guys do this.
They were a little out of hand 5 years ago. Now they are whack. You have 60 hrs of work to make a car from 10 years ago, have a competitive body.
Left rear is way up in the air i mean like it looks like 6 ft high
Me personally, I love the ways the cars look now. I love the body lines, and the crooked right side, the whole deal. To me, comparing todays cars/bodies to the way they looked 15 years ago would be like comparing a brand new Mustang shelby GT to a 1996 Mustang GT. Not even close. Like Mark Martin said on twitter a year or 2 back, they are the "sexiest" race cars on the planet.
Thank you RAYCOOK53FAN. I agree with you & Mark Martin.
These are the best looking race cars from late models all the way to street stocks. None of them look like daily drivers anymore. It’s not like it’s nascar in the 80s when your daily driver looked like what you watched on tv on Sunday. If your building bodies and haven’t noticed the way 99% of everyone else has been making them since 2015 or 16 then maybe you should get another profession.
He's speaking about smaller details you would fail to see.
They are so far outside the rule book, it's a joke.
The problem is, when teams quit building key body parts, and aftermarket folks stepped in, all scrutiny was lost.
Rule makers have never back to backed a curved roof and a flat one with 4" of rake, and it shows. When we built our own, that wouldn't get past tech. Now, it's rubber stamped. Same deal with noses. The companies make more and more wedge ones every year to outsell the competition.
And the whole nose pieces deal was to make them look more like regular cars. Back in 95 when the noses became standard (we went from the wedge sheet metal and 6" or so of plastic at bottom to the stock type noses), they were something like $89 or $99 and only consisted of the 2 half's of the nose. Now you have almost 500.00 worth of nose, batwings, and valances and they resemble nothing
Shrugs
Let them build. Let them create. Let them go faster than hell 👍👍👍
Why do you call them racecars. What car do they look like?
The problem with the current late model is it needs "clear air" because they are sooooo aero dependent. If they lose air from someone sliding up in front of them, the trailing car loses steering. On TV you cannot see how out of control the bodies are, look at 1 head on from the front at deck level. The sloped deck is a huge issue with the @$$ end up in the air with the suspension. Take the rake out of the deck would help a bunch I think.
The right front on the 76 tonight is the most ridiculous thing I have seen.
I agree with you can wrangle these bodies in and not really lose the “look” everybody likes. The decks look to be more of a wing this year just in photos I’ve seen. I imagine they are pretty fun to load in the trailer with that new right side nose they are running as well
"Todays cars are too aero dependent, we need to go back to the way it used to be!"
...The way it used to be...