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Originally Posted by sperry
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.
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That's kind of my point. Why are the rules coming together to create a requirement for running such difficult/dangerous in order to be fast enough to win? What is it about the restrictions that prevents a properly sprung suspension from being competitive? I understand the difference between what they ran being necessary, and that setup being considered ideal. But like Austin said, these aren't backwoods yokels- so if these professional race car engineers are forced to resort to such a poor setup, the rules are broken.