NBC Sports analyst Steve Letarte shows the smaller diffuser to be used in the 2024 rules package for short tracks and road courses, and explains how it could promote more competitive racing throughout the field.
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29 comments
just give em 750 hsp or more
It’s not that simple. They ran 750 or did you not hear what Harvick discussed? For this car to feel a difference, you’re going to need 1000+hp. That does get expensive and you’re at the engine’s breaking point.
Months ago an engine builder said it wouldn’t be harder or really that expensive to add 80 more horsepower
850 HP
Just like years ago.
@@johnnyfrisbie7581 its pretty simple. Remove the gigantic V8 Supercar style front splitter (aka make it much smaller) and boost the horsepower to 800. They still use the same engines that cycled between 7800-9800 rpm at over 900 horsepower an entire weekend. Just use the 2016 formula tbh. 750-800 and little downforce
wait, so they took away Downforce with Part A….but made them install part B to put it back?
2 words. *M O R E H O R S E S*
Just give more power please. Even a local short track driver have more power than that
Local short track drivers don’t run nearly 40 races per year…which means they can run more powerful engines because they only have to work a handful of times, and for not very long distances.
High powered engines are incredibly expensive to maintain. It’d be the death of smaller teams that can’t afford to tear down a motor after every race.
@@bmoney2011you’re right a lot of local short track racers don’t run 40 races a year. A lot of them run more than that.
@@bmoney2011The teams have stated that their engine costs haven’t gone down since implementing a lower power engine. It still cost the same as when they where running 750hp.
The teams also tear down the engines every race anyways, hence why the costs haven’t come down.
These cars need more power if they aren’t going to do anything about the increased mechanical grip.
These Aero changes are going to do squat at tracks like North Wilkesboro, Bristol and Martinsville, and may be a marginal improvement at the larger short tracks like Richmond and Phoenix.
How about appointing another France family member to be the head of crapcar so we can have a new stockcar to watch do absolutely nothing for the fans!
It’s nascar u boomer
Plus I don’t think u would be remotely like change
NASCAR has the most incompetent governing body in all of professional sports today. Give them more horsepower at least at the short tracks, down force is not the problem there. Also, fix the tires or better yet, just run rain tires everywhere all the time.
This would be way more difficult than you think. And it would be impossible to run rain tires everywhere
Podcasts rot your brain
@Fearthebones211 not really. Aero is not an issue with these cars at short tracks. The cars need more power to break the increased in mechanical grip they obtained.
Every team so far has said that increasing power won’t be a difficult thing to do, nor would it be much more expensive.
Just add horsepower goddammit! It won’t kill anybody!
Except more hp means more expensive engines which means more money sunk into maintenance which means fewer teams can stay solvent
Yep, change Aero at tracks where Aero hardly matters.
Crank up the HP. The drivers want it and the fans want it, 800-900 is the perfect range.
I love seeing all the comments to add more horsepower. NASCAR just doesn’t want to listen to the fans nor the drivers anymore. They want to do things their own way and it’s frustrating as a fan for sure and I’m pretty sure as a driver that they won’t just try and test with more horsepower
How about just get rid of the diffuser at all tracks??
Yep, because that’s going to make a huge difference over adding horsepower and reducing tire width…
Now up the horsepower to 750, eliminate shifting, and you’ll be on to something!
So what you’re really saying is that did nothing.
Horsepower, Horsepower, Horsepower!
Just make a softer tire for the short tracks and let the rubber give you two grooves
You need to be able to wear out the tires. Give the more power and less tires.