Despite the Troubling Conditions, NASCAR Insider Rallies the Support of Fans After a Hot Texas Weekend

Last weekend’s race at Texas marked the 30th race of the 2023 NASCAR season. Despite there being a chance of rain in the region prior to the race, the heat continued and made things all the more difficult for drivers. With Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron grabbing the win from the hands of his teammate Kyle Larson, the 267-lap came to an end without many mishaps. With heat being the only major challenge of the track, the 1.5-mile speedway at Fort Worth has often been considered one of the most eventless destinations in NASCAR.

Getting back to their cameras, journalists Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi sat down for an episode of “The Teardown” and discussed how good of a race this year’s ‘Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400’ was.

Veteran reporter strongly declare that the race in Texas was not memorable

The Texas Motor Speedway has faced criticism for its extensive green-flag runs and single-file racing. But what has the newer generation of fans fuming about it is the reconfiguration of the track that was carried out in 2017. The track’s banking was brought down in turns one and two by 4 degrees, which made it uneven with the other turns. Being issues that even the next-gen cars could not fix, the races continued to be considered the worst in all of NASCAR. Notably, Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson had expressed last year, “I would like them to demolish this place first and then start over from scratch.” 

Talking about last weekend’s event at the track, Gluck and Bianchi shared their expert views on how it compared to previous sessions. Despite reiterating that the race was not something similar to what had been witnessed at Kansas or Bristol, Jordan said, “I don’t think the racing per se was memorable.”

“But at the end of the day because of the cautions and how they fell and everything else, there was enough going on to kind of keep interest. And it wasn’t like ‘Oh my God, this is Texas!’ There are parts of that time, but I think it was enough to break it up a little bit and enough plot twists to kind of keep things moving along.”

In a race where Kyle Larson looked poised to take the win at a track that he wasn’t very fond of, an unfortunate slip-up, courtesy of old tires, caused his car to go loose. That was perhaps the most edging moment of the event, and fans are still divided on the opinion of calling the race ‘good’, as revealed by Jeff Gluck’s poll on “X”.

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Dividing fans with his poll, Jeff Gluck thinks people wouldn’t have liked to see Kyle Larson win

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Agreeing that the race wasn’t the worst that they had seen, the journalists were able to common ground in their opinions. And, Jeff Gluck’s shocking opinion that Kyle Larson’s win wouldn’t have been favored was reflected in his “X” poll. With the late drama resulting in Kyle’s crash and William Byron’s win, around 60% of the 15,000 voters have said that the race was, in fact, good.

Despite his strong opinions against the track, Rick Hendrick’s No. 5 driver has seen his fair share of success at Texas. Over his last 5 appearances there, he won twice and finished in the top 10 once. However, Jeff Gluck added weight to his latest P31 finish claiming that Kyle going on to win the race would have not made people happy. The driver had won the second stage of the race and was leading by a considerable time advantage when caution forced a restart and hampered his chances.

Keeping in mind the straight-forwardness that Kyle’s win would have brought, Jeff said, “I mean you almost kind of have to separate a large part of the race from the last 25 laps as well because that got a little chaotic and crazy and silly at times in some ways. (…) I think if it had ended in a long run… Whatever, It was an 80, 90 lap run and Larson won by seven seconds, people are not going to be happy of course. But… you know and I say this is by Texas standards.”

With the poll participants seeming to feel the same way as Jeff, let us know what you thought of the hot Texas race in the comments below!

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