@Michael Sanderson yeah that’s exactly right! It would’ve been kinda unfair to initially address chastian’s move as illegal when it wasn’t something they had ever thought of. Ross Chastain is a rule maker, not a rule breaker! as DW would say

16 seed in the playoff standings may not have been the true 16 seed though. See Blaney and Truex last year, both were easily top 10 in the regular season. Even small teams have a good chance to be in the top 30 as it was. If you can’t be top 30, sorry, you don’t deserve to be in the playoffs.

@ShinyMew76 Couldn’t agree more. just when I started getting into NASCAR they introduced the stages and I just couldn’t bother anymore. it’s just so artificial to be having planned yellows. Hate it so much.

@SpheredHawk67 or someone will just take a bad bounce and it’ll be too much for the gate to handle.

@John Coffelt it’s not the same thing as a Darlington stripe. When Darlington had guardrails on the outside cars would run IN CONTROL so close to the outside of the track they’d just kiss the rail and leave a scrape. What Chastain did is different. He deliberately wrecked his car but kept the throttle pegged, fingers crossed that it would rocket him to the front instead of killing someone.

I prefer to look at it as them changing the interpretation of that rule to cover a scenario that they hadn’t thought of

I think it would have been unfair for them to have called it at that time. Nobody had thought of it, so NASCAR was never able to address that specific move as an unsafe act. Now they can say, moving forward, we think that is an unsafe act. Tbh I don’t like them telling the drivers how to drive, but besides that I have no problem with the rule.

Pretty much

@Shay_Mendez So you’re a doctor?

@Mr. Sharpie The walls of certain tracks have used for years to gain advantages, so apple versus apple