Official doesn’t believe a “pandora’s box” is being opened by allowing teams to make car changes for safety reasons.
Beginning with the July 9 Atlanta race, the car’s front clip will be softened so it will be more collapsible during a crash.
After a season of NASCAR Cup drivers enduring the most “severe crashes” since the current data system was enacted in 2011, numerous changes are being implemented to the current car in an effort to curtail the severity of the race collisions. “For whatever reason, a combination of things … car setups and everything being new and the feel of the car for the drivers … we had crashes that just had not occurred all the way back through 2011 in Xfinity or Cup. They were really big, severe crashes.”
Drivers complained last year about the hard hits their bodies were enduring during the current car’s inaugural season.in single-car accidents last year. Bowman returned to racing, but Busch has yet to drive a race car in competition. Patalak cited Ross Chastain’s crash during practice at Auto Club Speedway early in 2022 and then Cody Ware at Texas, later that same year as severe hits.
“That’s really hard to find that on the race track,” Patalak said. “What I mean by that is a difference of almost 60 miles an hour between two cars. That’s why this crash was so severe.“It’s very rare in our racing that you have cars with . So, when those types of impacts occur, it’s very challenging to both cars.”
Blaine Perkins’ car does a barrel roll at Talladega in one of the more violent crashes of the season.Patalak said they also conducted an in-depth study of Blaine Perkins’ barrel rolling crash in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Talladega.
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