Road course races at NASCAR have always had a reputation for being wild and the restarts being the wildest. After what happened in the Circuit of the Americas earlier this year and in Indianapolis over the years, NASCAR officials are taking precautionary measures before today’s race at the 2.5-mile-long oval raceway.

One of them could be having single file restarts. However, the goal for the NASCAR authorities is to put on the best show possible for the fans, and a single-file restart could take away all the potential fun from the races. RCR driver Kyle Busch sided with this.

Kyle Busch wants to let the fans have all the fun

Among many other things, NASCAR is a front-page entertainment business. NASCAR switched to double-file restarts in the early 2000s. But after the usual atrocities revolving around the turn 1 of the road courses of NASCAR, some are speculating if switching back to the single file restart would make the race safer for the drivers. Some might also argue that IndyCar and Formula 1 refrain from having double-file restarts and yet, both of them feature quite exciting finishes, provided the end witnesses a sprint of ten laps or so.

However, there are arguments against it as well. Some are of the opinion that a double file restart results in more exciting finishes. It also intensifies the element of unpredictability in the game. During the pre-race interview, the Chevy star expressed his views on this frequently debated topic.

The owner of Kyle Busch Motorsports does not want NASCAR to switch permanently to single-file restarts. Although it would probably make it easier for the leader, he explained that it is an entertainment business that they are running in NASCAR, and taking away double file restarts would just diminish the show.

He said, “We want to be able to put on the best possible show for the fans that we can. I think that would be a deterrent to many of the races that we go to, but like Kelly said, save us from ourselves to just now allow calamity to ensue.”

What is the alternative to it then? Why risk wasting millions of dollars on equipment just for the sake of entertainment and also, at the cost of lives?

The restart zone is typically on the front of the straightaway that leads to the flag stand. In Chicago, the restart zone was moved backward right before the final corner of the street circuit started. By doing this, the officials expected the cars to space up a bit right before making a turn. Another motive behind this was to prevent cars from piling up on the track. And this weekend, NASCAR will play the strategy at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Will it work? Only time will tell. However, the safety of the drivers is indeed, crucial. This is not the late 1970s when the cars possessed dare-devilish speed and ran as far as they could.

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Throwback to the practice run of the 1992 Indy 500. Three-time Formula 1 champion Nelson Piquet’s car spun on the track and rammed straight into the wall. The car was crumpled up and for quite some time nothing could be seen due to the smoke that came out of it.

Julia’s father crashed in Indianapolis about 12 hours before she was born in Germany. Piquet was rushed to the infield care center with the bones in his left leg pulverized and a major fracture in his right ankle. Julia still shudders while looking at the photos of the crash.

But that was more than 30 years ago. Standing in the care center in Indianapolis, Julia conveyed Piquet’s sincerest gratitude to Dr. Terry Trammell. Getting flashbacks from the past, her voice trembled as she stood with Suarez, who will be starting Sunday’s race from the Pole.

Indeed, speed thrills but kills. We as NASCAR fans definitely want that contact on the tracks, but we definitely do not want the lives of our favorite drivers at risk. Today’s race at Indy is going to be quite a show and we are all super excited for it.

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