Bonehead of the Week: Phoenix

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Think I have to go with Tim Viens in the ARCA race. 10 laps down and crashes on the last lap trying to gain nothing setting up a bunch of fool ****.
 
Logano and Paul Wolfe. Had a top 3 car and Joey threw it away with a silly mistake. I believe he had Byron covered on speed, idk about Bell.

Wolfe for choosing to go to the option tire early and getting off strategy rather than letting Joey slowly work through the field.
 
Katherine Legge/NASCAR...it was a team effort doomed to fail.

NASCAR for allowing a completely inexperienced driver to race at the Cup level. I mean...NASCAR set the rules up for the Cup level so i can't blame the driver/team too much. Unique car, no or very minimal practice, not allowed to test the car at a track of your choosing. The Infinity car isn't the same. Next Gen car is closer to a mix between a gokart, which has basically no suspension/it rides on bumpstops and an Indy/IMSA car. The Australian Supercar would be it's 3rd cousin.

Did the driver create a problem? Certainly. But so did a whole bunch of others on the backstraight when experienced drivers ran all over each other. It happens. Which reinforces my belief that most of the blame for her wreck falls on NASCAR for their stupid rules. She was completely unprepared for the race. Couldn't hear her Crew Chief, didn't know where/what the "choose cone" was located, etc, etc.

I posist: What vehicle manufacturer would, in their right mind, decide to spend couple million dollars designing and setting up a new team (say BMW) to show up for the Daytona 500 with a new (likely European driver) and try to race? No practice. Can't test it anywhere except local Walmart parking lot, don't know what they don't know...seems like a way to burn money.
 
DIDIT said:
From my observation and what I have read online it's CW
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They are having new coverage growing pains. I was under the impression that almost everybody would have access to CW and the races. I'm not sure if that was because of bad info here or from the web or both, but in my case I knew I was going to have to pay for upper tier streaming, the lower tier, meaning free, would be in-car "battle cams" or local TulsaCW which could be about anything but racing.
 
StandOnIt said:
They are having new coverage growing pains. I was under the impression that almost everybody would have access to CW and the races. I'm not sure if that was because of bad info here or from the web or both, but in my case I knew I was going to have to pay for upper tier streaming, the lower tier, meaning free, would be in-car "battle cams" or local TulsaCW which could be about anything but racing.
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Hmmm? I'd already forgotten the CW App version was doing in-car/pedal cam/peanut butter and jam coverage. I get CW from antenna and have the app loaded on TV. Next race I'll try both.
 
StandOnIt said:
They are having new coverage growing pains. I was under the impression that almost everybody would have access to CW and the races. I'm not sure if that was because of bad info here or from the web or both, but in my case I knew I was going to have to pay for upper tier streaming, the lower tier, meaning free, would be in-car "battle cams" or local TulsaCW which could be about anything but racing.
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Live streaming on the app was literally part of the original announcement between NASCAR and CW.
 
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Guess my post was pretty close to correct. But I really don't place much of the blame on her. The team made set-up changes overnight like they would have done for an experienced driver. She got in & spun 4 laps later. Took them several pit stops over maybe 150 or so laps to get it back to what she felt was driveable. She was running top half of top 20 speeds. Fine for the team. I wonder is she heard "car outside" as been having radio volume issue all day. I got impression from spotter he was fairly impressed with her performance after they dialed the car in. W/o the wreck was looking like a mid-20's finish.

They should have taken the time to fix the radio. She's been at this long enough to know, you don't throw the team under-the-bus, so she didn't mention/suggest she didn't know she as getting lapped by 6th place car. I listened to her every lap. Think she spoke maybe 3 times while under green. Every one was to say she couldn't understand what they were saying.

But it all comes back to, never should have been out there. NOT because she's a women but because NASCAR doesn't allow testing/practice. If Penske, day of Indy 500 suddenly needed a driver, do you think they'd stuff Logano in the car? Not comparing their talent. Just experience in a given car.
 
Nascar made the NexGen car hard to drive. Katherine and Helio proved it. Helio had a pretty good team behind him with setup and all and he was flopping around like a fish out of water out there. Katherine didn't have anything close to that. If teams want to bring in a driver from outside, there needs to be a program of some kind to at least give them a fighting chance at being competitive.
 
Well said. I'm not huge fan of Harvick so whatever he says i'm like, whatever dewd.

I believe he was suggesting Helio should have dramatically backed off in his rush to maintain speed. The end result pretty much verifies that to be the correct assessment tho. His last wall impact WAS likely his fault. But I disagree that it had much to do with the Next Gen design. Yes, he had a broken toe link. But just knowing a stock car can/will do strange things transitioning onto the banking is where he had an issue.
 
Good article, Pockrass has some good points, but I am not backing down about how hard to drive the NextGen is and I think more practice time with the car should be mandated for inexperienced drivers no matter how much experience with driving other cars they have. Legge was driving a BJ McLeod car I mean C'mon.


Don't get all spun out over Katherine Legge's NASCAR Cup Series debut | FOX Sports

Katherine Legge's Cup Series debut at Phoenix was a "baptism of fire," but approving her to race was the right call by NASCAR.
www.foxsports.com www.foxsports.com
 
I didn't know she had that much practice. That makes the fact they changed the car set-up even more confounding. Really wish the team would rip-the-bandaid-off and say what happened from their end. Since the end of her race was later in the race, I still would like to know how her radio issue affected her. Was the last spin purely just the car getting sucked around by a faster car? Or did she get little surprised by that car due to spotter communication being glitchy and give wheel little jerk sending it around? Did she fade too high or was car pulled up by aero? So many questions. Any answer would be considered an excuse tho I suppose.

My guess is we'll never know. Maybe she has no idea.
 
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