‘We’re closer to the competition than we were last year,’ Michael McDowell on the Next-gen cars bringing the field together
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The Next-Generation of care were introduced by NASCAR to make the completion beiger and better and it is doing exactly that as they envisioned it would as the 10 rounds of racing produced 8 different winners with William Byron of Hendrick Motorsport and Ross Chastain of Trackhouse racing being the only multiple winners.
Though the coemption aspects of the race is overshadowed by the fact that 4 out of 10 races were won by HMS in with the help of there 3 different drivers as their 2021 dominance continuous but the arrival of the new team Trackhouse Racing to the front running mix has made the argument of strong competition a reality.
Michael McDowell have had an amazing start to his 2022 season so far as he secured four top 10 finishes in 10 rounds of racing this season in his Front Raw Motorsports car. The 27-year-old has now come crediting all that success to how the Next-Gen has made strides in increasing the cup Series completion.
Find out what Michael McDowell said on the strong competition on the grid
Michael McDowell acknowledged that that the Next-Gen car has definitely brought the grid together in terms of performance as in some races the smaller teams are running closer to the big teams and they are also getting performance similar to big teams in some tracks. He went on to say that in few moths his team will get the idea of how to get closer to in competition if everything played out as they expect.
“I feel like it’s kind of ebbed and flowed a little bit as far as the small teams being able to perform because there’s been tracks where it seems like we’re closer to the competition than we were last year, and then there have been tracks where we feel like we’re pretty similar,” Michael McDowell said.
“I think in the next few weeks and definitely in the next few months we’ll have a better handle of what we need to do to get us closer to the competition, so I hope it plays out how we anticipated,” Michael McDowell added.
Michael McDowell on Cup Series having limited practise timings
Michael McDowell suggest that the drivers are not getting enough tack time in practise with the Next-Gen cars as they are constrained by the newness and lack of practise to try out new packages and tools to get an idea of how they will perform in the final race. He added that the 20 minuets practise session NASCAR now provides is not enough.
“I think that the hardest thing for us has probably been the challenge of just the limited amount of practice that you have and with the newness of this car. You want to try a lot of things because it’s so new, so you want to try different packages, different geometries, springs, stiff, soft, bars, no bars, there are a lot of things that you want to work through that you can’t work through in those 20 minutes,” says Michael McDowell.
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