Last year, the Martinsville race rang a lot of alarm bells inside the NASCAR garage simply because of the racing product on display. All the criticism and voicing against what happened had everyone hoping that the new package would change that. But of course, it didn’t happen either as Denny Hamlin called out the new short-track package after his 4th place finish last weekend.
“You can’t pass. Cars that I was lapping 10 laps before, we caught caution, and I couldn’t pass them for second. It’s very difficult. Next Gen racing is all about strategy, execution on pit road… that’s who wins. Rarely does the car that dominates or the best car win, simply because you can’t control the race when you need to – at least we couldn’t.”
“When you start to make changes to that, it requires changes to a lot of parts and pieces. And some of those would be as much as a year to possibly 18 months lead time to get that work done and get parts ordered. That decision needs to be made now. Yeah, very soon. Because depending on the parts and pieces, some things, as I said, are easily six months to a year out from a planning perspective.”
Jeff Andrews claiming NASCAR needs to determine the changes for next year so the teams can start working on them attracted a lot of attention from everyone, including Kevin Harvick. “1000 HP spec. Order it…,” Harvick tweeted.
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