Freddie Kraft Insults NASCAR Committee “On a Coffee Break” During Kevin Harvick Fiasco; Suspects Ford “Flaw”

One of the things that caught everyone’s eye during the Kevin Harvick incident at Darlington, was the notion of the caution flag not being thrown at the right time. This was a criticism of NASCAR for the second week, running after the chaos from Daytona.

Speaking about the incident at Darlington in which Harvick’s car was on fire and the caution wasn’t called in time, Bubba Wallace’s spotter Freddie Kraft shared his opinion.

“Was the committee on a coffee break when Kevin’s stuff went up in flames down in turn 1?” Kraft said. “I don’t know if the TV and the yellow flag are exactly synced up the way they are most of the time.”

“But you’re watching that video and Kevin is literally halfway out the window before that thing turns to yellow and it’s like, ‘What were you doing?'”

The spotter described how in this particular situation, the age-old, “it’s a caution/it’s not a caution,” debate comes into play.

But despite that moment in the race being in the middle of a pit cycle, despite NASCAR not wanting it to be a race-altering decision, Kraft believes they should’ve thrown the caution – “It’s a caution! The guy’s car is on fire, he’s getting out,” he added. “Are you just gonna stay green with Kevin Harvick walking around turn 1?”

Freddie Kraft feels the Kevin Harvick incident points to a bigger Ford problem

After calling out NASCAR for their caution decision, Freddie Kraft went on to draw parallels between Kevin Harvick’s Darlington incident and the ones suffered by other Ford drivers in this season.

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“I don’t know what this is. It seems like some kind of a design flaw with the Fords because it only happens with the Fords,” he said. “We saw it with (Christopher) Buescher, we saw it (Chase) Briscoe, we saw now with Kevin.”

But regardless of the severity or the recurring nature of the problem with Fords, Freddie Kraft simply didn’t have an explanation for what the reason could be for that.

“I don’t know where the flaw is,” he conceded.

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