March 28, 2024

8 thoughts on “The Simple Solution: How to Solve the Inspection/Cheating Problem in NASCAR

  1. A driver/team wins a race and then is found to have cheated. That driver/car/team should be disqualified, end of story. It is unfair to other competitors to allow said driver to keep the win.

  2. NASCAR doesn’t want Ford to win. They made “the call” to insure two Toyotas (or perhaps just one Ford) in the Champ Four at Homestead. Shameful.

  3. Didn’t the TV broadcast not point this out specifically back in Talladega where the Stewart Haas cars dominated? They even drew on the teleprompter to show how far the spoiler on their cars and compared them to the Penske cars. The were yawed out to the right there as well. Why did it take this long to take a quicker look at their spoilers when clearly even the booth could tell something was up with them?

  4. Sorry you detest engineers so much. They work diligently to provide you with something of value to write about. Since the box has been tightened and closer tolerances defined, and since all efforts to make racing closer to make it more interesting to the fans (and press), has attendance soared?
    i believe that opening up the tuning envelope will help the smaller teams.

    1. John –
      Actually, quite the contrary, I admire what engineers do and can do. I have a highly technical background myself, and any years of that in racing. My point was that engineers are intelligent enough to present a legal car. People who claim NASCAR made it too tough for them are insulting engineers. As I point out, it is proven when NASCAR tightened up, incidents of tech failures went down. So, they CAN do it. Also, don’t misunderstand, engineers are not calling the shots. They are simply following directions. If we “open the box” and let engineers have it at, we would be amazed at the ingenuity presented.
      I will disagree with you on one point, however. I believe opening the envelope will hurt the smaller teams. The reason is because of the engineers. Large teams can afford larger teams, and higher qualified engineers. Therefore, it will widen the gap.
      Thanks for reading! Hope to hear from you again!

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