“They Want a Lot of Control” – Chase Elliott Exposes NASCAR, Revealing Their Plans

The Next-Gen cars of NASCAR, since their roll-out have been a constant source of debate among the teams and the governing body. To maintain parity and ensure cost-effectiveness, the authorities have barred the teams from designing and manufacturing their parts. Moreover, the teams must acquire the sanctioned components from legally authorized vendors, as mentioned by NASCAR.

This stringent policy laid down by the authority seems to strive for congruity among the teams and also to emphasize the competitive side of the sport rather than manufacturing and foundational engineering. However, it seems that Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott believes that these regulations are restricted on the surface level, as NASCAR seems to have an underlying rationale in issuing these rules. This was apparent in the pre-race interview of Elliott ahead of the race in Michigan. 

Chase Elliott spills the beans on NASCAR’s underlying plans ahead of Michigan race

To rewind back to the past season, NASCAR had revealed the employment of a single source manufacturer in order to build the ‘standardized parts for the cars including the chassis and the carbon composite body part for the teams in building their cars. Moreover, they also reduced the horsepower and RPM in order to preserve the engines and also cut the cost for the teams.

Many drivers, including Denny Hamlin, had earlier in the year expressed their displeasure on how these regulations are hurting the competitive side of the sport. Owing to this fact, it seems that a similar query was raised in the pre-race interview of Chase Elliott at Michigan International Raceway. The journalist asked the No.9 driver, “Is there something we could add to this car that would open things up to the racing a bit?”

To this, the driver shared, “That is a great question, and I am not familiar with the INDYCAR rules at all. I know that they were first to the spec car thing and I had heard that what we were doing was more in line with what they had going on or what they had going on. But I don’t know.”

“I don’t know what you open up. I think this is really what NASCAR as a sanctioning body wants. That they want a lot of control over the cars. And they want to have parts suppliers and have the teams buy parts instead of building them. I think the thought was that it was going to save a lot of money, you know.”

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The Hendrick Motorsports driver, continuing on the same lines expressed his skepticism regarding whether any further altercation would help in making the sport more dynamic and competitive in nature.

Nevertheless, Elliott added, “And I will let other people answer whether or not that, that is true. I don’t know what you open up to make it better or worse. I am not really sure.  But I do know this, the cars are very much alike. It’s so funny like every week we do our post-race debriefs and the engine shop comes up with a really nice report for us to look at while we are talking through our race.”

“And it kind of splits up like part throttle, full throttle, closed throttle, and like the four of us are like within a percent of each category. When those things are the same, it’s just going to be really hard to be different. I just don’t see it changing,” Elliott concluded. 

With that being said, it will be interesting to see what are the future steps that the governing undertakes in order to make it at par with other forms of motor racing and also not compromise its competitive side in order to make the sport more pocket friendly for the teams.

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