Denny Hamlin urges NASCAR to learn from Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s racing series to stop the Truck finale wreck-fest from repeating
Denny Hamlin wants NASCAR to use CARS Tour as an inspiration.
Follow Us
Denny Hamlin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Via IMAGO)
The 2023 NASCAR Tuck Series finale was a controversial race as the entire stock racing community was disappointed by the race product. It featured too many crashes and wrecks, including retaliation from championship-4 drivers. The easily avoidable drama stained Ben Rhodes‘s second championship triumph.
Denny Hamlin was among the many Cup drivers with bold opinions about the race. He pointed out that the hyper-aggressive race at the track was the byproduct of NASCAR not stepping enough to stop the young drivers from moving their opponents off the way all the time. Hamlin sees it as the only option to sort out the lack of respect issue in NASCAR.
Hamlin used CARS Tour, punishing its drivers for uncalled aggression, as an example. He believes that with resources at his disposal, it will be easy for NASCAR to get to a judgment on which incidents can be categorized as punishable. CARS Tours is owned and operated by a consortium of NASCAR elites, including Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick.
The CARS Tour is making great strides and penalizing drivers for, you know, intentionally wrecking others and if they can do it with the infrastructure they have, I’m not sure why we can’t with all the cameras and officials that we have, you know do something about it.Hamlin said via Frontstretch.
NASCAR policing the drivers in the lower divisions on the way forward
The veteran racers in NASCAR believe that the aggressive racing style the young racers learned in their junior years is creeping into the national series. It has resulted in drivers showing no respect on the track and moving away from clean racing.
The lack of strong veterans in the lower divisions is another issue. In the past, there used to be senior racers in the garage who would confront and converse with the young drivers about racing beyond a certain aggression limit.
The only way to fill this void is to NASCAR step in and say enough is enough as if they remain on the sidelines clean and can’t be expected. With a playoff system in place and the safer cars drivers have at their disposal, they take more risks when they shouldn’t. The sanctioning body has to step in to make it stop.
In case you missed it:
Stay Updated!
Justin P Joy
(4970 Articles Published)