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Following a confusion among some cup teams whether they could shortcut at Circuit of the Americas this past weekend, a NASCAR official said it was “our responsibility to make sure all the participants understand” how the sanction body will use the limits and that we “will not make the mistake again.”
Brad Moran, managing director of the cup series, made the comments on SiriusXM Nascar Radio’s “The Morning Drive.”
NASCAR INSTITUTE ROOR LIMITS – fines for the short set of specific areas of the Cota course – to prevent drivers from cutting specific turns.
An important area of concern with track boundaries is the esses part of the track – turning 3, 4, 5 and 6. Drivers can find time by cutting the corners.
Last year’s cup race at Cota punished Nascar four drivers for cutting the corner in turn 4. Last year’s Xfinity race issued NASCAR 16 penalties for drivers who cut part of the asses.
Katherine Legge makes her cup debut Sunday at Phoenix Raceway with Live Fast Motorsports.
After consulting, Moran said the plan for this weekend was to place 450 pounds of plastic blocks on the inside of the corners to serve as a deterrent to cut it. After feedback from drivers on what the hit could do, Nascar removed those blocks.
Moran said Nascar only last weekend at Cota on Dare 3, 4, 5, but not 6. He said it was a change from last year when turning 6 was also polished, but last year’s race was on the long track. The race of this year was on a lane shortened by a kilometer and Nascar did not see the need to police the shortcut in turn 6 with the new course layout.
Moran said Nascar did not allow more than 40 rounds in practice for drivers who turn 3, 4, 5 short price, and also allowed some qualifying rounds for those offenses over the weekend.
“We had no questions,” Moran said on SiriusXM Nascar radio. “No one came to the trailer. We thought we were pretty clear.
‘… we thought we were in good shape. We did a lot of work to communicate and everything was, we felt that we were in a fairly good place. In the cup race on Sunday, in the first phase, we caught on a team scanner that they were not sure about the short -pit of Turn 6. It is clear that we have seen that it is happening from the beginning of the race and that we did not have a problem with it. ‘
Christopher Bell was not the only driver who left Cota with reason to feel good about the race.
Moran said Nascar confirmed to teams that there were no penalties for the short -passing of Turn 6 – in line with what Moran said how Nascar appointed it all weekend.
“From then on, it played well, but of course there was some confusion because we had many teams that had no questions, and I think we had some teams that had questions, and it is our responsibility to make sure all the participants understand it. If we go back, we won’t make that mistake again. We will make sure everyone understands it completely.
‘But many changes occurred from Thursday, Friday, very close to the race. We handled it as quickly as possible. And I think the broadcast was also on the same page as some of the teams. Fixed it, entered and had a wonderful opportunity. But again our responsibility. We will make sure this does not happen again. “
