‘I just don’t think they can have a real dirt race,’ Chase Elliott on Bristol Dirt race with the windshield on


‘I just don’t think they can have a real dirt race,’ Chase Elliott on Bristol Dirt race with the windshield on

Chase Elliott

The Bristol Motor Speedway will host the Food City Dirt Race where the Cup series drivers will fight in their Next-Gen cars for the first time on a dirt track. The unique change will spice up the Cup Schedule and will be a booster for NASCAR as the previous two rounds of Cup racing in short track that didn’t turn out to be as exciting as they should be.

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Though all are excited about the Cup Series race one demand has been resonating among the Cup Series drivers that is to re

move the windshield of the car to accommodate real dirt racing as reigning cup series champion Kyle Larson put it “if we’re not going to take the windshields out, then why are we racing on dirt?”

Now his Hendrick Motorsports teammate and 2020 Cup champion Chase Elliott has come forth suggesting the same and expressed his disappointment towards NASCAR’s lack of interest in addressing an resolving the issue.

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Find out what Chase Elliott said

Kyle Larson
Kyle Larson and Chase Elliot

Chase Elliott who has been voted to be the most popular NASCAR driver four times in his career has come forth claiming that NASCAR can’t have a real dirt race on Next-Gen cars with the windshield on. He went on to add that there are some reasons NASCAR missed out on the dirt races being short with windshield-less cars.

“As long as they have the windshields in them, I agree with a lot of guys that have been saying that: I just don’t think they can have a real dirt race. It’s going to be tough to do, right? Because No. 1, dirt races aren’t very long, and there’s a reason for that. There are reasons dirt cars don’t have windshields in them. Go on down the line,” Chase Elliott said.

Chase Elliott went on to add that he is disappointed with some of the decisions from NASCAR on the dirt races though it was a great way for them to spice up the schedule for the fans as well as the drivers. He went on to add that the track should have moisture so that it can bear up with the hard racing.

So, I was a little disappointed in some of that and some of the decisions that were made because I think having a dirt race is a great idea. I think it’s a great way for us to spice up our schedule and to do something different, make an exciting weekend for the fans. But if we’re going to do it, we need to do it right. And to do it right, we need to have moisture in the track and be able to have that track go through changes, the proper changes that a good dirt race, when they get it right on a Saturday night, goes (through),” Chase Elliott added.

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