it's going to ruin this sport!!!! Who wants to sponsor or put their logo on a car that no one can read within a few minutes or looks like a piece of junk running around in circles. If they wanted to see something like that they would go to the local county fair and watch a demolition derby!
As long as drivers find a sugar daddy to pay the bills, they can keep on beating the tar out of stuff for style points. Lucas only pays by the transponder though. No judges, like in a diving competition.
As far as the cautions go, maybe, just maybe, Lucas Oil officials could mandate that when drivers are in the hot pit they need to remove dangling and dragging bodywork or other parts of their cars before returning to the track. There were numerous situations on Saturday in which it was inevitable that these parts were going to fall off and cause a caution. Let alone hit another car or driver. Pierce was one example.
The most laughable example was when Josh Rice had his spoiler barely hanging on and flopping on the ground. Under caution, they had him pull up to the official who bent it back up under the rear roof support. As you can imagine, it took about two laps before it fell off and caused another caution.
Or get up in the stands. I kept waiting for a crew man to get hit as one of the cars dragging sheet metal/braces went by. Be pro active and keep someone from getting hurt vs. reactive and making a rule AFTER someone does.
A battery powered cut off wheel in the pits isn’t too much to ask.
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