Kevin Harvick Thrown Under Bus by Denny Hamlin for Rule Change Many Fans Are Now Complaining About
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2023
- Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin provided a unified voice for the Cup Series drivers last year, regularly communicating publicly their concerns about safety issues with the Next Gen car. They were always on the same page.
However, this week the two weren't anywhere near being on the same page as evidenced by the Joe Gibbs Racing driver's remarks on his podcast, where he openly admitted he was throwing the 2014 Cup Series champion under the bus for a rule change implemented in 2023 that many fans are now complaining about.
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Stage cautions suck. I'd rather watch a flag to flag blowout with zero cautions than have the manufactured excitement of stage cautions, on all tracks.
Stage cautions are nothing more than a gimmick.
Every time I start to give Hamlin the benefit of the doubt re: his personality and character he does something dumb. Now he's messed with my driver. Boo, Denny.
Put blame on the car that has wide tire with less fall off, big brakes, too much downforce, and lack of horsepower. It's not because of no stage yellows. When stage cautions are removed, the race is on, you can't make mistakes like McDowell and Larson did. If those two didn't make mistakes, those we could've had closer finish. It's racing. This is not the end of the world after few lack luster races. It would be the same we had stage yellows. Just look at Road America last year. No natural cautions other than stages. The only cautions last year's Roval had was the debris yellow and stage yellows. It's says something about the car.
Couldn't have sumed it up any better.
I would only add, what you said applies to every track.
It's the car
Nascar is so heavily invested in it, they refuse to change or fix the obvious problems.
@@Dougie1969 Yep Martinsville and Richmond also
I've enjoyed the last two road courses. The reason being is less cautions means less commercials being shoved down my throat. I would much rather watch a caution free race as opposed to seeing the same commercials 10 times every hour. If you want better racing find a different tire supplier cause Goodyear isn't getting the job done.
Not enough people are calling out Goodyear.
Softer tires and more horsepower
No stage cautions are great. The problem with the last race is there were no lead changes. All cautions would do is make pit stop times the only way to pass. Not to mention the bad wrecks following cautions. Dump the stage cautions and road courses and make the cars more competative.
That glen was unacceptable
Stage Cautions should only be in play at superspeedways, having no Stade Cautions at super speedways would be dangerous
Wait a sec….you want MORE cautions? Why? Just to have more restarts? That’s not racing. F1 hardly ever throws a full course caution and it’s the most popular motor sport in the world.
Never did like stage racing when someone comes from working hard on his car and someone else is out to lunch . Why should everyone else give them a break for not doing there job ? Fastest car and best team of the day should be able to collect their hard work!
I agree with Harvick for a change.
God I hate NASCAR fans. You have such short memories. Sonoma and COTA were amazing with no stage cautions. The strategy was amazing. Also I love how short the races are. The problem is not the stage cautions. It's the cars.
COTA was amazing until it wasn’t at the end. But agree with everything else you said.
Xfinity car with more horsepower should be the cup car.
Nope xfinity car needs a next gen update! I know everyone won’t agree but a would love to see a mix between a trans am ta2 car and a modified to be the next gen xfinity car!
Get rid of ALL stage breaks
Id rather watch a race playout with no manufactured cautions . If your teams car sucks and gets lapped 20x then they need to go faster.
Do away with the caution flags for stage finishes. Let the race run it's course, no need to manufacture finishes of any kind, let those who win by running the best strategy have at it, at least they will earn it, instead of having it fall in their lap because of a stupid caution.
Get rid of stage racing . I enjoyed both of those races because it was non stop racing just like when I started watching NasCar many moons ago . The best teams will come out front .
Denny "ABSOLUTE" HACKlin
Stage cautions on road courses are unnecessary.
I would like to see Nascar get rid of the stage breaks myself.
Stop
Remove the stage crap from all races, what are we kiddy car racing, they need a rest? Lack of action is because the cars are not stock cars, plain and simple. too easy to drive. If the competition was better you would have battles all around the track just like all other road course races that don't try to add wreck for entertainment.
Too damn many cautions.. why not just break it down to heat races and the top drivers do the main at the end.
cautions breed cautions.. you see it every race.. no need for 7 restarts on the last 4 laps of every race.
Would like heats.
V8 supercar series tried this yeeeeears ago, it didn't work, and they got rid of stages and the cautions completely, here comes Nascar with the same exact idea lol and guess what, same results, stage racing and made up cautions don't work.
Nascsr needs (they won't) to get rid of stages and stage cautions, and give the car back to the teams, like the playoffs it's not working, it hasn't improved anything, it's made it worse "but we got parity" I don't care about parity, I care about the best car on the track winning, and race cars racing.
I pay attn to F1 just because it's thee best teams building the best car they can and putting it on track, "its so boring" they're racing, they're building their own cars, and the points system isn't confusing at all. It's 100% authentic racing, and Nascar has gotten away from that for gimmicks "we're gonna change 75yrs of culture and we're doing it" is there words...its not working and it's not gonna, cause Nascar executives are not race car drivers they have 0 clue as to what they're doing. Now it's suffering and has been a failure.
Agreed with everything. We watch racing to watch racing, not for WWE style gimmicks and all that dumb crap.
The ovals stages breaks make sense, since I’ve seen drivers struggling… boom stage caution and later they got it going on . But RC I’ve always enjoyed the strategy teams use to win and missed it when they took the breaks.
Hamlin has an insecurity complex when comparing himself to other great drivers.
Change my mind.
I don’t know about that. He’s got 50 wins. I did hear over the weekend one commentator say that race car drivers are some of the most insecure people in sports. So there’s that.
Harvick outta use these words as fuel to go and dominate the rest of the season, like Michael Jordan did when someone would talk about him.
MJ was king of finding inspiration from others making remarks - even when they didn’t. 😂
Voice sure does sound familiar over on beating and banging… 🤐
Lost respect for Harvick when he shoved Me sells ski from behind after a race and started a fight between K and another driver. Never respected Hamlin or his constant whining and bullying. He got what he deserved for constantly hazing Logano.
Hamlins new lulaby:
Rock a by Hacklin in the racecar when he the car breaks it smashes the wall and cry cry will go baby, racecar and all....
I dislike road courses anyways but without stage cautions they are more boring than ever. No real action on the track.
They should do away with the stage racing at every track.
Just increase hp.
I you think about what Denny has said this year, all he is showing me is he likes to cry wolf and whine a lot. Someone needs to ask him if he needs some cheese to go with his whine!!
To be fair, what he’s saying here is true. Harvick did inspire it.
I have been telling everyone that what Denny Hamlin, President of NASCAR wants he gets. Racing this year with all the road courses have sucked and are so boring. I do not foresee the play offs being any more exciting that the regular season. NASCAR already know who they want to win and will do everything possible to make sure that driver wins.
Like his driving Hamlin blows it every time.
We never had stupid stages before, and the sport was great, who wants fake cautions except fake fans that just want crashes.
This.
Oh give me a beak. The boring racing these past 2 years is a direct result of this crappy new car design. No passing, no more three-wide, etc etc. Throwing stage breaks at the road courses would not have changed the product at all.
If NASCAR really wants to make it interesting, do away with stages and do what is done at countless local tracks every race, run heat races. That should light a fire under some of the drivers.
Agreed. Would def make it more interesting.
For a race to take one of the shortest time since the early 1971 with only one caution,you should go back to stage cautions.... pretty boring race
Harvick has a trophy Hamlin doesn t maybe Fedex&Gibbs want one and figure that they can get one cheaper than Hamlin and besides why would JGR want a driver who s focus is elsewhere.
Tbh i don't think the lack of stage cautions was the issue, i think it was the race itself (plus not to mention indy last week). A race in general no matter where it is with only 1 or 2 cautions is almost impossible to come by today. With how aggressive drivers are now it's probably not gonna happen again the next time they go to the glen. If anything it's gonna ramp back up again once the playoffs begin anyway. Plus whose to say that even if they did put stage cautions back in, that fans wouldn't start complaining all over again? So i just stopped giving a shit long ago because of that
Fans will complain no matter what. I’ve accepted that.
I agree with the no stoppages on road courses, opens the door to strategy. I would say the Super speedways could lose the stoppages as well. For all the other styles they need to keep the stoppage at the end of the stage. Teams need to work on their cars and the drivers need that little bit of downtime to take a breath. Restarts are fun and creates lots of opportunities to gain or lose track position. They could throw in a caveat that you don’t have to stop at the stages to work on your car.
Great points!
Give them 900hp and 50 more laps and the race would be great. Except for real ugly plastic car!
Remove all stage cautions from all the races. Go back to real racing.
GO AWAY NUMBER 11 8/22/23 I can not stand number 11
Are you saying you also don't like Kyle Busch/Joey Logano/Bubba Wallace as well? Or were u posting today's date? Lol 8/22/23
If you need stage breaks to make the racing good or even better than your on track product sucks. Stage breaks aren't a solution they're a band aid. Harvick is right but they need to follow through with fixing the shitty car.
The day they announced the play offs and stage brakes is the day nascar racing died now its just a show. Manufactured drama every week
So true
I like the playoffs. Makes it more interesting like this weekend at Daytona. Stage breaks not so much.
@@AftertheCheckeredFlag it makes a years worth of work worth nothing
Let them run max horsepower. 850. Toyota motors won't last.
That's why they changed it
ATCF just rly out here starting controversys always😭
Starting controversies, huh? I didn’t say those remarks. Hamlin said “throw under the bus.” But go on.
@@AftertheCheckeredFlag I'm just saying like every video you do is about some sort of controversy lmao
Agree. Love the drama!
@@AftertheCheckeredFlag lmao
What is everyone whining about. Races are fine. Stage cautions suck and serve no purpose but to create false results. How about coming to the track with a good car. Probably same people that like having a dumb playoff system. Which by the way does not produce the real champion.
This is a snapshot of a bigger problem. It appears that NASCAR is turning into just another full body car going to more road courses. The leadership is taking the racing body in the wrong direction. When there were 2-3 road courses per year what was the problem with that? Why the push for going to more road course races? They’re definitely not fan friendly. How can they be when there are many parts of these tracks you can’t see the racing, and having these huge screens to let people see more, then why not just stay home and watch on tv? Just doesn’t make sense. I can’t remember the last race where the stands were full. And in regards to Denny/Harvick, what’s there to say. I lost a lot of respect for him. He will dump a guy and then when someone returns the favor, they are a hack that should be suspended.
Just FYI - Watkins Glen was sold out for eighth year in a row.
Restarts are always exciting and add a distinct crescendo to the start of a new stage. Why not keep them and keep the fans on edge?
ain't fun when bunched for the pursuit of entertainment.
But isn’t it supposed to be entertaining?
@@AftertheCheckeredFlag Racing on it's own is entertaining. All it takes is a car that is hard to drive like Xfinity cars.
They are trying to turn NASCAR into F1 with full bodies. And it SUCKS!