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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Of course. And yet, by choice from either Nascar's rules or poor strategy, teams are driving half-million dollar cars around racetracks on the bumpstops. If that's really the fastest setup, something's wrong with the system. You shouldn't have to make the car so hard to drive to have a chance of winning.
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What are you suggesting? NASCAR mandates "no driving on the bumpstops"? Or are they going to have to go back to mandated spring rates?
The problem exists *because* they've mandated so much about the car. Within those rules, driving on the bumpstops is the fastest way around the track, but it also causes the car to fail. Jeff Gordon and crew were bitching that the mandated car isn't "strong enough" to handle the fastest setup.
I'm not sure who the bigger dolt is in that situation, NASCAR for mandating a car design that breaks when driven on the bumpstops (or that's fastest when on the bumpstops) or the teams for running a setup that they knew probably wouldn't finish the race and whining that it's NASCAR's fault.