All I want is for the Gen-7 is that it produces a better way to pass the leader and please no WING ON IT!
All I want is for the Gen-7 is that it produces a better way to pass the leader and please no WING ON IT!
Nah what you said is not racing. Racing is how much money you can stuff under the hood and how much you can outspend your opposition for better drivers/ R&D/Testing/parts/equipment/crew etc... Does not matter how good a driver you are if you drive for anyone but the top 3-4 teams.For passing to happen, need to dirty the cars up and get rid of the HP restrictions at the different tracks. Look at Darlington Wednesday night, the 13 car holding off everybody, then later on the 6 car on old tires doing the same - the 6 should of been passed right away on the green flag restart, not several laps later. NASCAR wants an even playing field for all. That's not racing, racing is have cars that have to be driven by drivers WHO can drive.
For passing to happen, need to dirty the cars up and get rid of the HP restrictions at the different tracks. Look at Darlington Wednesday night, the 13 car holding off everybody, then later on the 6 car on old tires doing the same.
SCIENCE TIME!
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The question of how closely you can draft someone actually isn't a function of the rear wing on the back of the car but the splitter on the front.
By getting in behind someone, you get into a patch of disturbed air; which is lower pressure than the air which would normally be still. The issue for cars following (like in Formula One) is that front end grip is lessened; which reduces cornering speeds and thus increases lap times.
NASCAR removed the rear wing and and went back to a duck-type spoiler; citing safety concerns after 3 acrobatic accidents between May '09 and Mar '10 but the '11 season is where the improvements in racing were actually seen because they decided to make the splitter present more of a flat brick surface to the air at the front of the car.
Nope, I disagree on some of your points.... The BIG teams can't spend like they use to. NASCAR has limits on what you can use and buy. EXAMPLE: the air gun, some teams were spending thousands on them, but now NASCAR issues them.Nah what you said is not racing. Racing is how much money you can stuff under the hood and how much you can outspend your opposition for better drivers/ R&D/Testing/parts/equipment/crew etc... Does not matter how good a driver you are if you drive for anyone but the top 3-4 teams.
People act like opening up the rules would allow for the cream to rise to the top. Instead Hendrick, Penske, Stewart Haas and Gibbs will likely outspend everyone else and further dominate even more than they already do IMO.
Put Jimmie Johnson or Kyle Busch in Bubba's or McDowell's ride and you could count on one finger how many top 10's they would get.
The only tue way to put the skill back in drivers hand 100% is IROC, either that, or kick the top 4 teams out of the sport forcefully so the rest don't have to compete with the multi-million dollar multicar giga-teams.
Racing has almost always been about who has money, and who doesn't. No damn aero package will change this fact.
A cup car engine makes 750 HP, at Charlotte they ran the 550 HP package, they were wide open most of the race. If they remove some of the spoiler and gave then all of their 750 HP, they would have to lift in the turns, thus making the drivers drive the cars and yes the top teams will win.
All I want to see is passing for the lead, NOT some driver on old tires who doesn't pit and because of Clean Air, he can hold off the field - That's not racing.
Nascar tried the wing, didn't work out to well for them viewer wise, if they went with something like this, I'd stop watching or going to any races. Nascar is ment to have a spoiler on the back, and the smaller the better, makes them drivers have to drive and control their cars.
It also proved to be a problem when cars spun, that the air would get under the wing and lift them up and cause the car to flip easier.