Cup RACE thread --- Atlanta

[Greg]

I am not going to hammer race control to much on the last lap caution. Literally so many moving parts happening so fast at something like 180 to 190 mph.

 

[28car]

Possibly. Even his attitude about it. It's like arrogance (like young KB for example), but it's not. It's almost like he has a fire burning inside him

the kid is being crucified trying to win!

let him get his first win then maybe say hey, you know you're driving a Hendrick Chevy, you don't pass a Hendrick Chevy, you push a Hendrick Chevy to VL!!

 

[virtualbalboa]

If cautions end races and the field is set when the caution comes out, then the natural consequence of this is that NASCAR can choose to have a caution during a competitive race like this when it desires which means it may put the screws to one guy or rewards another or whatever. Ultimately this being a thing is entirely a "problem" of their own making. There's no gun to Jim France's head that tells him he can't end the race under caution and have whoever led the last completed lap get to lead the last one too.

All the discourse about Atlanta (and to a lesser extent anything remaining from this years' Daytona crashfest) ultimately isn't anything NASCAR is concerned about because NASCAR is principally concerned that discourse happens at all regardless of what it is. A million people saying they hate what NASCAR did is still a million people talking about NASCAR that NASCAR wants to show to potential corporate partners.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

NASCAR should put a mark on every track, each mark location will be different for each track.
leader passes the mark no matter what happens race to SF line
before the mark throw a caution if needed

Dude, they tried a backstretch 'point of no return' several years ago, although I've forgotten exactly what they called it.