Since the NASCAR Cup season returned after the Olympics break, cars flipping in the air has suddenly increased. There have been three different instances so far since the Michigan race. These incidents involved the likes Spire Motorsports’ Corey LeJoie, Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell and Sewart Haas Racing’s Josh Berry.
Many of the current and retired drivers have already shared their concerns about the pattern and has urged the sanctioning body to make the necessary changes. Though NASCAR has tried usage of splitter, it hasn’t yielded the desired result. Two-time champion Joey Logano has shared his verdict on the issues and revealed which part is causing the issue.
The Team Penske driver first admitted that though he isn’t an engineer likes the NASCAR crew, he does have experience as a racer and feels the floor of the Next-Gen cars are the culprit. He believes the big pan like structure is has doesn’t let the cars to remain on the ground when it catches wind during the races.
I didn’t talk to them about it. I don’t really know what you do. To me, I don’t have an engineering degree, just have an RCD [Race Car Degree], and I would say a floor underneath the car that we have, a big pan, when it catches wind it’s like a kite. And we’ve seen that happen a lot with this car and until that comes off I don’t think there’s a way to keep them on the ground.Joey Logano told Fox Sports.
Joey Logano believes NASCAR should look into whether removing the full underbody would help keep cars from getting airborne. pic.twitter.com/gtWvS0f22Y
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Joey Logano offers a solution for the situation
The veteran driver went on to explain how the situation can be solved. He urged NASCAR to remove the whole floor underneath and add splitters. This means going back to the old set-up, which though wasn’t a great success was for sure better than current scenario where cars are flipping too often to ignore.
So, I think one of the best options would probably be to put a splitter back on the thing and take the underbodies off and go back to where we were. Not that we had great success in keeping the old car on the ground all the time but, gosh, it seems like we’ve seen more cars go up here recently than ever.Joey Logano said.
He later asserted that increasing the weight of the car to achieve the goal isn’t the right way to go as it will backfire. It would be interesting to see if NASCAR will look into the suggestions made by Joey Logano and make fix to the floor of the car.
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