cautions

[TheStang00]

does anyone else think they throw way to many cautions? i was just at the brickyard, made me sick how many cautions there were.

[theFREAKnasty82]

yes and no. Cautions serve their purpose to make sure that there are no obstructions on the track that could cause other serious problems. The only thing I have is the length of cautions. A caution lap at Indy will take over 4 minutes because it's a 2.5 mile speedway and they're only doing 65 MPH. The one caution that they used to throw a while ago was to check for wear on the tires. If there was such an issue with the tires, why have them on the cars to begin with? So with cautions, it goes both ways, just the length of them makes it so stupid.

[street_racer_00]

Debris cautions piss me off more than anything.

[theFREAKnasty82]

Let's say your favorite driver's Tony Stewart. What if he cuts a tire while leading a race b/c Kyle Petty had an earlier wreck, running 3 laps down loses a piece of his fender and it gets in Tony's right front tire. Guess what happens. He's going into the wall, hard & fast! I agree w/ debris cautions, clean the track so that no one cuts a tire and gets hurt and a caution has to be thrown anyway at that point.

Now for NASCAR to throw a general caution to check the wear on the tires, that's a little far, for me at least. Wait until an actual pitstop to do that, don't make it mandatory for all teams to do that. If the tire issue is such a big thing, why do they go along w/ the new tires being developed by Goodyear? So cautions for debris is actually a good things.

[TheStang00]

Originally Posted by theFREAKnasty82

Let's say your favorite driver's Tony Stewart. What if he cuts a tire while leading a race b/c Kyle Petty had an earlier wreck, running 3 laps down loses a piece of his fender and it gets in Tony's right front tire. Guess what happens. He's going into the wall, hard & fast! I agree w/ debris cautions, clean the track so that no one cuts a tire and gets hurt and a caution has to be thrown anyway at that point.

Now for NASCAR to throw a general caution to check the wear on the tires, that's a little far, for me at least. Wait until an actual pitstop to do that, don't make it mandatory for all teams to do that. If the tire issue is such a big thing, why do they go along w/ the new tires being developed by Goodyear? So cautions for debris is actually a good things.

if theres actually debris thats fine. but damnit they call a caution if a car slows up on the far side of the track... half the time when they call caution for debris there is no debris.

[theFREAKnasty82]

Originally Posted by TheStang00

if theres actually debris thats fine. but damnit they call a caution if a car slows up on the far side of the track... half the time when they call caution for debris there is no debris.

what if the guy who's slowing up engine just blew? He could be spewing oil & water all over the track making it unsafe for the others to race. I've seen in the past that a guy who's slowed down tries to get out of the way the best he can due to the fact that he bonked the wall out of turn 2 or 4.

Should NASCAR throw a caution for a slow car on the track? No, chances are, he got a bad restart or his transmission is stuck in one gear and he can't do any better. Cautions are cautions, I guess the only bad things about some cautions is that they take way too long.