Toyota President Reveals NASCAR’s Decision to ‘Loosen-Up’ the Regulation for the LA Coliseum Clash

As the 2021 season ended in NASCAR, the sport bid farewell to its Gen 6 car and prepared to welcome the Next Gen. However, due to the pandemic, those preparations for the future weren’t fully complete.

To be more precise, many teams faced supply issues. Some found it difficult to get certain parts, while some found it difficult to prepare enough cars.

Either way, NASCAR is now heading into the first race of the season, the exhibition event at the LA Coliseum, the Busch Clash. And simply by looking at the layout of the track, even an optimistic person can assume that the chances of teams, already low on parts and cars, wrecking and damaging their cars is pretty high.

This is something Toyota Racing’s president, David Wilson recently spoke about as he revealed the relaxation NASCAR has given the teams in line with the supply issues.

“All of the teams are really nervous right now because there’s not a lot of cars sitting on their shop floors,” Wilson said. “Fortunately, NASCAR has kinda loosened-up the regulatory considerations heading to LA that say ‘hey, if you’ve got some old parts laying around, use them’.”

Wilson described “racing in anger” at the iconic venue, on a quarter-mile asphalt track that’s a first since 1971, as “interesting.” 

“It looks beautiful right now,” he said.

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch looking to put on “the best show” at the Coliseum

Kyle Busch, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver, recently spoke about the Clash and its significance to the sport. “Obviously, the history of the Coliseum is really, really neat,” Busch said. “We’ll put on the best show we possibly can.”

He continued, “Being it’s such a historic venue, we hope we can get a good crowd out there and enjoy the show, and hopefully have a few new eyeballs come out there and tune in on TV, and keep some of those people to watch our other races during the remainder of the year.”

Until the exhibition race is done and done well, there will be doubts surrounding its impact on the teams and the decision to put it on the calendar in the first place.

But one has to give NASCAR and the drivers the benefit of the doubt here because of two reasons – they’re professionals who know what they’re doing, and there’s no going back at this point.

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