So, NASCAR went ahead and instituted double file restarts. This may be fun to watch. There will be unintended and very unfair consequences to this latest attempt to manipulate racing.
The most interesting thing to watch may be when lapped cars remaining on the track instead of pitting will be “waved around” the pace car to pick up a lap on the leader. Wow! Losing a lap now becomes insignificant. With so many cautions it will be easy to get a lap back.
I cannot grasp the reasoning for this change. True, those cars that did not pit started at the tail end of the lead lap ahead of the rest of the field and frequently caused fan confusion and difficulties for the race leaders. But, I can see instances where everyone a lap or more down will not pit so they can gain a lap back and hope another caution comes out quickly. Essentially, any car a lap down can become a “Lucky Dog”.
This is not racing. It’s a contrived show. Real race fans will not like it. Once, again NASCAR is showing that it cares nothing about its base fans. It’s really odd how NASCAR keeps going farther and farther away from the racing that made it a strong series. Their attempts to make things even do not ring well.
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