Bob Pockrass
Fox Motorsports Insider
Fort Worth, Texas – Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Michael McDowell and Kyle Busch are Nascar veteran corridors who lost control or their career cars on Sunday in Texas Motor Speedway.
The track certainly has its challenges, with different widths and banking in curves 1 and 2 and then in curves 3 and 4. This means that drivers and equipment must choose which set of turns to maximize speed. A blow between curves 3 and 4 adds to the sketch of the track.
Therefore, it should not be a big surprise that another veteran, three times champion of the Cup, Joey Logano, prevailed in the chaotic race.
There were 12 precautions through the race, where, to maximize aerodynamic load, the teams tried to put cars as low as possible. But hitting the bump can force the lower part of the car to scrape the pavement, which makes the driver lose control.
Why did Logano not lost control or his car like so many others?
“There are definitely boys who believe that the ability to drive their car a little more to the limit, and they willing to run that risk sometimes,” Logano said. “That will be good for you or will bite you.
“That blow in [Turns] 3 and 4, is brutal. Everyone is in their rear limiters as much as they can. If you are a little free and hits the [shock] Limitator, it’s gone. There is no opportunity to save it. “
Logano indicated that the decisions that the equipment takes on the clashes and the shock blow (which can control the management of the car) and other technical options can affect the ability of a driver to obtain a fearful race such as Sunay’s.
Ten pilots left the race due to accidents.
“I was trying too much and I broke my butt and looked quite silly,” Keselowski said after his accident. “It’s just that cars are right at the stops, and you are driving them.
“And just when I spend, you attribute, and that’s what I did.”
Josh Berry was one of those knocked out due to an accident, but finished 84 turns down when Leghy’s repairs were made to his car. Berry broke out while led the race.
“I hit that lump and I released,” Berry said. “I don’t know what would do too different. Obviously, in thesis cars, as special in a place like this, if you are going to be fast, it will be uncomfortable. And you will be nervous.
“Unfortunately, he bit us.”
Not all drivers felt their accident was inevitable. Carson Hovar got into the back of Ryan Precece, and Precede was furious.
“It seems that he is making me compensating again and again,” said Precece, who has had problems with snack in the past. “[I had a] Very fast, a really fast race car. … I simply came across the fence for someone who does not respect his team and any other driver out there.
“It will have its day.”
Hovar damaged his car and said he showed that he was not trying to destroy preexis.
“I simply entered there and began to slide up, and he reached the right back, and I was already crossing someone’s wake and put me tight of him and the car in front,” Hocevar said. “I am out of gas and the half wheel, and I only predicted to be in that place, panic or have to change the directions.
“You have to predict it. And I would simply not predict that it would get there. That depends on me.”
In his second year of Copa races, Hocevar said he has been in Fower incidents and narrations this year and this was a different scenario.
“I apologized to their boys, mine and any other person involved,” Hocevar said. “Sorry when you get someone, but I think it’s obvious when you destroy you, you didn’t want to do it.”
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Few of the remains were made when making movements Desy for their position. Bubba Wallace released in front of Joey Logano and Wallace assumed the fault of an accident that shows four cars.
“I hate having entered the fence. I was trying to give the 22 [of Logano] Room and then I only got the wall and the chaos began, “Wallace said.
“So I hate him for my team and I hate him for all those involved … I only had a period. You don’t need much to get you out of your rhythm. I got bitten by my own mistake.”
Logano would not be so bold to say that he led a better race than others who lost control of their cars. But he did indicate that the pilots make decisions through the race.
“You have to think about the risk versus the reward through the race,” Logano said. “Not only in the boxes strategy, but when you try to move on to someone, how difficult it is worth pressing here to make a pass, and what is the final objective?
“There are times when you must boost your limitations, and there are others that you must stay within reason. Everyone does something different.
Bob Pockrass covers Nascar and Indycar for Fox Sports. Decades have passed engine sports, including more than 30 Daytona 500s, with periods in ESPN, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobpock.
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