Daniel Suarez pinpoint’s “plain and simple” design flow with Next-Gen car
Trackhouse Racing No:99 Chevy driver Daniel Saurez has highlighted some design issues with the Next-Gen cars when it comes to flat tires.
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Going into the 2025 NASCAR Cup season, the sanctioning body made some serious changes to the rule book. One of the major changes made was the updates to the Damaged Vehicle Policy (DVP), that includes giving teams more time fix the car under the damage clock and removing provision about DNF involving damaged cars.
One of those changes was allowing cars with flat tiers to be towards the garage during the races, instead of forcing them to retire. According to Trackhouse Racing driver Daniel Suarez, the changes were due for a long-time. He pointed out that the Next-Gen cars are not designed to have flat tires as it will always get stuck.
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I think it’s a great call that they get that out of the way. You know, cars getting stuck sometimes with flat tires. These cars are not designed to have flat tires. That’s plain and simple.
Daniel Suarez said via Frontstretch.
The reason behind this is the car being pretty flat underneath and very low to the ground. He pointed out that without tweaking the shocks, the cars can’t be moved around in such tricky situations.
The car is flat underneath, the car is very low to the ground. They have to do some things to the shocks to help that… But still though, it’s a little bit tricky to move the car around.
Daniel Suarez added.
Daniel Suarez sees the rule change as a great decision
Further talking about the point, Daniel Suarez asserted that NASCAR made a great decision. They previously had put themselves in a delicate situation with the car as well as the limited time given to fox the damaged cars.
I think it’s a great decision because NASCAR put themselves in a little bit of a delicate situation with their five-minute clock or sometimes it was eight or something like that. They were the bad guys… And I felt that they were getting a lot of people mad for them doing their jobs.
Daniel Suarez said.
The Trackhouse Racing driver’s comments seems to be something that many in the community, as well as the racers, align with. It would be interesting to see how the rules changes are going to change the sport next season.
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