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Hard to watch somebody spin out and hit nothing, pop a couple of tires, and end of on the hook and go down 2-3 laps.
It's definitely ruining the race for a lot of drivers if they get a flat. I was listening to Logano's radio last week at Daytona when he got stuck in the grass after spinning. He couldn't move and went on a rant about how the drivers told Nascar this would happen. Sounds like they were so committed to this wheel/tire combo they ignored the downside arguments.
I don't even see how it is the tire/wheel. It seems that if you go down to the wheel on a lower profile tire with a bigger diameter wheel, the car should drop less. I think the cars are just lower to the ground??? I don't know, but that's what I'm thinking.
I think it has more to do with that part on the rear bottom of the car, I think it's called the rear defuser..
So the diffuser is an anchor LOL.
I'm guessing it's more than just the diffuser. It may be the entire underbelly of the car that's dragging because they sure can't move with flat tires.
Well, apparently 3 years of R & D wasn't enough to work all the bugs out of the NextGen car. In general I agree that it will give more parity if the big bucks teams can't spend millions fine tuning the parts. We might have witnessed that with the finishes this weekend of Jones and Suarez. It would be refreshing to see someone other than the big dogs win. Refreshing that is if I have them on my fantasy lineup!
