Matthew Kowal


Last year we had scores of races with less than 10 lead changes, the thinner splitter to reduce downforce is going to make the competition less competitive than last year. I applaud NASCAR for getting rid of the rear springs on superspeedways, the photogrammetry inspection that should reduce time, and the hi-speed cameras/data collectors.

Unfortunately, the rear springs are not going to prevent the car from getting airborne. I saw in Austin Dillon's accident and other accidents not involving lift off, that if a car hits another in the side or a sweet spot, the car that gets hit will fly like a baseball getting hit by the bat, it's called matter displacement in physics.

At first the lift off in the COT was caused by the wing, in which the purpose of a wing is to create lift. They need to go back to an air dam/valence so we don't have cars going through the grass that tears up the front bumpers.