After Kurt Busch’s Pocono incident, one hoped that injuries as bad as his would not be a theme for the rest of the season and NASCAR would get time to fix their issues with the Next-Gen car. However, that does not seem to be the case; just after last weekend’s race at Texas, Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman announced that he also displayed concussion-like symptoms after his crash.
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Bowman’s impact was nothing compared to that of the wrecks that used to take place about a decade ago. Yet, driver after driver is being forced out of their cars with injuries like these. Many have questioned NASCAR regarding this issue at hand. Multiple drivers who have been involved in wrecks this year have complained that the impacts felt hard on the occupants of the vehicles.
One asks where after all these years of innovation, safety should have increased with the new generation of cars. However, what stands, in reality, feels like a downgrade in safety from previous generations of NASCAR race cars.
Fans are upset with NASCAR for not solving the issue quickly
People were upset at the way NASCAR was handling the issue at hand. They also blamed the organization for the way the Next-Gen cars had been designed.
Fans compared the wrecks of today with the massive crashes that happened nearly a decade ago and asked NASCAR to solve this as quickly as possible. They also argued that NASCAR was bound to do something and not wait for the off-season to arrive before they take action.https://twitter.com/Nascarcatholic/status/1575597377922400256?s=20&t=eyv9RWDh6noAHxHPDxzOQQ
bro nascar has to do something right now… they can’t wait until the off-season
— DennyDeliversYT (@DennyDelivers) September 29, 2022
He can thank Nascar for an awful car
— Jake Innes (@innes_jake) September 29, 2022
This car has turned out to be a complete shit show. Who cares how good the racing is when we are hurting drivers
— APS (@AllProSportz_) September 29, 2022
nascar and goodyear try not to fuck up championship contender runs challenge (impossible)
— NASCARFireball48 (@NASCARFireball) September 29, 2022
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What a joke of a car
— sportsguy070 (@CjNascar6767) September 29, 2022
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What do you think? Should NASCAR hold on till the off-season to work on the cars? Or should they have built a prototype alongside the regular season while taking in data from wrecks and inputs from drivers who had been in a few of the wrecks themselves? Let us know in the comments section.