NASCAR
This weekend the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will begin its two-weekend stay at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Of course, this means that this Saturday, the sports best drivers will go at it in the All-Star Race. The All-Star Race has always been a weekend in which fans have looked forward to. It has a history of bringing hard-nosed, first or last style racing. It even introduced double-file restarts to the sport in 2009. However, this year could be different and that’s not a good thing.
Radical Changes to All-Star Race Package
This is because NASCAR made the decision that this weekend the cars will be using restrictor plates. This is of course done with the intent to slow the cars down to make it more of a momentum-based drafting race. In theory, you would think this would be a good thing as the fans tend to love the restrictor plate races at Daytona and Talladega. However, that is not the type of race that will seen on Saturday night. Charlotte is a mile shorter and much narrower than both Daytona and Talladega. Charlotte isn’t a track that is meant to run in a giant pack. That is where the issues arise with this package.
While the cars will be running close to each other and possibly give the allusion of a close race, that may not be the case. These cars are already aero-sensitive and have issues passing, and Charlotte is a track where that is amplified. So now that NASCAR has taken even more power away from the engines, it could result in the racing becoming even more aero dependent. If that happens to be the case, fans could be in for a boring night of racing. On Race Hub this week, Drew Blickensderfer said the race could go one of two ways. It could either play out like a truck series race and you’ll see a lot of passing or you will see no passing at all. For the sake of the fans lets all hope that it ends up playing out like a truck series race.
