Pretty sure Kevin has driven the car more than said "Official " has. Seems he would have first hand experience...As usual, Harvick knows just about enough to be dangerous. Honorable mention goes to the R-F crack design team.
NASCAR official fires back at Kevin Harvick's comment
A NASCAR official countered Kevin Harvick's recent statement about the Next Gen car and also addressed how cautions were called at Bristol.nascar.nbcsports.com
SOI is on NASCAR payroll. Direct deposit.
You do realize his position is all-encompassing of being involved on track, dealing with OEMs, etc. He knows a lot as well, maybe not behind the seat, but he sees the issues and all of the data OEMs, vendors, and all other parties involved see.
Here is what he said in context. Those who are not familiar with the design process and those who try to blame the sins of the world on Nascar not knowing what the parts process really was, not only do a disservice to the sport, but they don't look very knowledgeable.
I did read the article. What displeased you about my opinion?
See there's been a cleanup on aisle 4. I read it too before it was posted here. Didn't impress me much.
Here is what you said ^^ You are saying Harvick has first hand experience designing the car and sourcing parts? So he gets on his soapbox and blames Nascar for everything when in essence he is throwing teams and manufacturers some his own people under the bus.
You're a Beaut. You can't even quote correctly. I said he drove the car, not any "first hand experince" designing it.
That was what the article was about. The design of the car and the people involved in the parts/manufacturing. This isn't the pinewood derby, it's a very intricate process involving many people and processes.
Ultimately it is the driver who has the experience. Not 'many' people who haven't driven the product.
again that isn't what the article was about.
Again, I was stating my opinion. Isn't that what the Forum is about?
Experience driving or experience designing?
Only for high post count members.
Apparently there are those that think Harvick is both lol.
Track position is definitely key you could see that pretty clearly last week.
Right or wrong, I felt you were implying that that everything wrong with the steering is the teams fault, and my point is that drivers have been unhappy with them from day one.
Except how many NASCAR teams have experience with the types of components that make up the new car? How many of their people have worked on rack and pinion steering systems in race cars, and even if they have, it wasn't in a car this heavy, so how much input could they really give?
They can run their mouths whenever something doesn't go their way while others will solve the problems.
Not what I intended to imply at all.
That's what they pay experts for, or should be. If your people don't have the skills, augment them until they do.
How many?
Most of the TEAMS have never run them, those cars aren't anywhere near as heavy as a Cup car, the races aren't near as long and there are a lot of people on these NASCAR teams nowdays, particularity the engineers that have never worked on anything but the top three NASCAR series. I don't think anything the teams had to say would mean that much. They would be guessing just like anybody else.
