The NASCAR Cup Series race at the Martinsville Speedway, only 400 miles but still tons to go over. With the SHR cars coming to play and the threat of weather there still was plenty of aggressive racing throughout the pack. Let's go through it all!!!
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This race was about as exciting as watching a train drive by…. Better(worse) tire package would have made this race more entertaining.
My rating would be a 6.5 for typical NASCAR race. But for martinsville standard it was still pretty low like a 4/10. It definitely was better, if you bumped someone, they were more susceptible to move up the grove, but still hard to pass. I’m factoring the shifting issue as well so it had a limit to only be 8/10 for that. Also it always good to see a clean race with not a lot of cautions. Last thing. I don’t know why when Fox shows telemetry, the booth refuses to mention that the drivers are partial throttle all the way from entry to mid corner before gassing it up on exit. That’s why dirty air was relevant the last year now. The faster guys tended to have more throttle in the middle of corner and I remember even last year when Denny struggled the first race, he didn’t even use the gas pedal for whatever reason. Adding horsepower definitely can help which I prefer. You can also ask the teams to stick to one gear after the first lap so they’re forced to have a good 4th gear ratio, but even that might be pushing it with limited horsepower to begin with
Watching the on board cams, back in the pack there was a ton of great racing. They just didn’t show half of it on TV.
@Kartkid024true, like yeah Preece struggled after his penalty, but it looked like if you squared your car just right, you can actually move people with a bump and run. Maybe have to battle for a few laps, but definitely felt like we got the good parts of racing from last fall to this race. Not saying much but at least a trend in the right direction
This, like the other Martinsville races with the car are better to watch at the track, I watched the spring race last year on tv and it was boring, but then went to the playoff race and it was better, and so I went to it again today and it was good, and I knew it would be a hard to watch on a TV somewhere
Pretty good day in motorsports if your name was Kyle, one wins his first IndyCar win, and the other winning his first grandfather clock trophy from Martinsville.
Lower downforce, more HP = tire falloff = passing & good racing
happy for joey to finish 2nd great rebound. kinda meh on the darn 5 car wining agian
Video idea: How the NextGen Car ruined Martinsville
The tv announcers were monotone most of the race, but I thought the racing was solid. It’s definitely not as good as gen 6 but could probably be fixed by adding HP.
It was better than that trash dirt race last week.
Dirt race was amazing
I enjoyed the race
A lot of people forget that Spring Martinsville usually sucks
I thought the race was going pretty good, if a little freight train-y. At the lap 310 caution I was real happy, thought it was going to be between Harvick and Hamlin for the win. Then I took a piss and suddenly my day was ruined because people from 30th teleported to like 5th and my guys lost a bunch of spots. So I’m confused and frustrated to say the least.
Larson now should have won SEVEN of the races this year.
The same way Chase Elliott should’ve won 10 races in 2020
Lots of green flag racing was great with good strategies and not a bunch of wrecking cautions or phantom cautions. Enjoyed this race. Would have like to see SHR get the well deserved win, they just need to get things cleaned up.
Bring back gen 4 cars
If I had to be specific on the package as of right now
Its not bad, but its not great