NASCAR addresses the hearth at Darlington Raceway
On Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Sequence opened the 2022 playoffs in Darlington, South Carolina. Darlington Raceway hosted the Southern 500.
In stage three, playoff driver Kevin Harvick caught hearth. He tried to maintain racing. After a number of laps, the hearth breached the cockpit.
The motive force was pressured to come back to a cease. That’s when the flames took off. Harvick was in a position to climb from the machine with out damage however with pure frustration.
No contact led to the hearth. It seems to have been began simply from rubber buildup.
Hear from NASCAR after the hearth beneath.
“They haven’t fastened something. We simply let it hold going and hold going,” Harvick stated in frustration after the hearth.
Harvick added, “What a catastrophe. For no purpose! We didn’t contact the wall, we didn’t contact a automobile and right here we’re within the pits with a burned up automobile and might’t end the race throughout the playoffs due to crappy ass elements.”
Kevin Harvick blames crappy elements for NASCAR hearth at Darligton (Video)
Kevin Harvick’s crew chief Rodney Childers mirrored his driver’s statements, “Points like this may very well be fastened actually fast, if the groups had management over their very own automobiles. However, with spec automobiles, there are many crimson tape and layers in getting issues solved.”
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NASCAR feedback on the Subsequent Gen hearth
“We’re definitely digging into the trigger,” Scott Miller stated Tuesday morning by way of Sirius XM NASCAR radio.
“We have now automobiles down (at NASCAR’s R&D Heart) this morning in search of any indicators of something that will have triggered that. And you realize, we’ve finished so all yr.”
“I imply, there’s numerous rubber at Darlington, the ‘cheese grater’ that we all the time discuss, so we’re not sure if rubber stepping into the rocker field was the issue or not, however we’re debriefing all of it.”
“It’s unacceptable for the automobiles to catch on hearth and we’ve been engaged on completely different options for various issues, various things alongside the best way that appear to perhaps be the set off and clearly we nonetheless have work to do.”
“We’re clearances on notably the Ford exhaust as a result of they appear to have been having somewhat bit extra hassle with this than the others,” Miller stated.
“So there’s simply there’s numerous work occurring, numerous collaboration throughout the business to unravel it, and we’ve to unravel it fast clearly. It’s all arms on deck with the groups and the OEMs.”
Watch the Kevin Harvick hearth video
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