Talladega WoO

[427c.i.]

He certainly didn't appear to be abusing his ride.

When you constantly overdrive your equipment, failures are going to happen. Hence my comment about the car better be 100% new every time because you don't know what's been stressed in a prior race that's going to fail in the current race.
And you can't expect me to believe that with 20 laps to go, all of a sudden Pierce is turning lap times around the top of the track a third of a second faster than everyone else he wasn't stressing things out on his car.

Back in the day, certain drivers refused to run Macon saying "you may not break at Macon but what are you going to break in the nights following racing at Macon?"

When you're in constant "balls deep" mode, you're gonna find the weakest link... 21st place finish...

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

When you constantly overdrive your equipment, failures are going to happen. Hence my comment about the car better be 100% new every time because you don't know what's been stressed in a prior race that's going to fail in the current race.
And you can't expect me to believe that with 20 laps to go, all of a sudden Pierce is turning lap times around the top of the track a third of a second faster than everyone else he wasn't stressing things out on his car.

Back in the day, certain drivers refused to run Macon saying "you may not break at Macon but what are you going to break in the nights following racing at Macon?"

When you're in constant "balls deep" mode, you're gonna find the weakest link... 21st place finish...

It's simple, he was just faster. Most of those guys were in cruise mode. Bobby has been known to beat his stuff to death at times, but this was not even close to being one of them. All parts fail eventually.