The NextGen car has produced some incredible racing at tracks like Kansas, Charlotte, and Atlanta, but has struggled at short tracks and road courses. Kevin Harvick understands the nuances of what it takes to change the car as a whole, but simply put, he feels the cars should have more horsepower. Watch his take on the video.
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The answer has always been more power and less downforce. If they upped the power and raised the car just a bit, then that's a show.
“MORE POOWAH, BABY!”
-James Pumphrey of Donut Media. That’s all we need in Short tracks and Road/Street courses. Hopefully NASCAR will get the onions out of their collective ears and simply listen.
FINALLY! A driver comes out on the lack of actual team-to-driver(s) communication. It's such a big gap that is unknown, yet, obvious. Overall, I appreciate the open to change of upper echelon NASCAR folks today. The era of putting a lid on it under Brian was non-productive and becoming a thing of the past. While they seem to point at cost within the P&L of equipment for teams and manufacturers, for some reason they don't look at P&L from a fan, viewer or driver perspective (IMHO). Where the "P" tips the balance. Odd. They want to keep this package appealing to other manufacturers (My #1 guess here is Honda) they also need to keep the package a marketable product. Crazy balance and transition for the sport.
I think that NASCAR should listen to the driver's. And give the Nascar cup race cars 1,500 Horsepower. Turn the NASCAR cup race cars. Into rocketships.
I like the idea of NASCAR giving more horsepower. What are your thoughts of adding different tire compounds to be available to the teams to use during the race, kinda like F1?
This next gen car has been the worst new car since the COT. Looks good though right!
If NASCAR was is charge of baseball, the baseball would be the size of a basketball, the bat would be a 3/4” inch diameter titanium bat and the they would run the bases backward. Then after they pissed all the diehard fans off after completely changing the game that is timeless and never needed changed, they would introduce a football into the mix.
Wow what a detached from reality rich boy, while terrorist move into the us, these guys play, wtf
They are not even close to the best, just rich boys using daddies money.
I love how they talk about 750HP is "no power"
Putting more power and actually making the drivers have to think and drive the car it might make watching the races fun again
A little softer on the tire=more traction,less sliding=longer lasting tire.
I want to see 1000hp cup cars again at short and intermediate track i think the plate track package is perfect
I can’t wait to hear his commentary next year
I'm not sure why I don't hear more about adjusting the size of the tire as the fix. In moving to the Next Gen tire, the width increased enough that it was almost equivalent to adding a 5th tire to the car. Taking the width back to the previous width would slow the mid corner speeds in a similar way to adding HP. I'm sure the crew chiefs would also like to see the wheel size maybe come down to 17in, as it would give a little spring rate back to the tire and allow for a little more adjustability. Just my thoughts.
While I am not an aeronautical engineer, I still want the bump stops removed. The ability to force so much air on the nose ruined NA$CAR. You could be 25% faster that the car in front of you and not be able to pass with the aero push. Before bump stops took over the sport you could easily race side by side and you could PASS. Now this new generation of car could bring complications with any attempted fix. It has been years of poor racing that has driven fans away in droves.
Horsepower and for goodness sakes throw the splitter in the garbage. That will slow the corner speeds. Losing the front splitter may actually be more important for passing than horsepower
I didn’t know they had mufflers on the new cars.
OEMs: 100hp and we will join.
Drivers and Fans: 850whp… it is a damn racecar.
The car is safe, put the HP back in it, fans want to see passing.
215+ come back to Michigan!!
I've stated this before: Run a live axle for ovals that can still tag the wall and not take out the car and save the IRS for road courses… So tired of the "dreaded broken toe link" retire a still race-worthy car on ovals… Well, that this ol' racers' opinion anyway…
Kevin made some great points, but heres something we also need to talk about… The lower series cars have more power than the cup series. There's not a single racing organization on the world where you go up in tier, and down in power except NASCAR. Kids at 15 years old in ARCA have more powerful race cars than the "best of the best" in the cup series and that is an absolute JOKE.
They have mufflers on the cars now?
I like that he said the driver should have to think about how to apply the throttle. The harder the cars are to drive, the more driver input is needed which makes for more of a driver's race than it is now.
Fans: "Give the cars more horsepower"
Drivers: "Give the cars more horsepower"
NASCAR: "Nah"
More horsepower! Miss those days of "Its a new! Track! RECORD!" Every week in 2014
Next gen. Big tech. Analytics. Computerized this and that….screw all that stuff. Give me back carbs, more air, and horsepower. We don't want a reinvented IROC series. Racing was never better than it was in the 80's and 90's…and not just because the Intimidator was on the track. The only thing better today IMO is the safety of the cars and the Chase format. I was against the Chase format for a while but have come around on that. But the racing itself, the speeds, adjustability, "gray areas", etc, made the racing so fun back then. And the driver personalities were better too. You had real feuds, bad blood, and drivers who spoke their mind, not the PC "hope I'm as fast as Xfinity 10G" corporate robot lines. BTW, Xfinity sucks as does their service, which is some call center in the Indo Pacific.
The more rubber build up on the track the softer you go with the tire. So makes sense the softer tire last longer and goes faster
Let them make as much horsepower as they want,its called racing .
I'm not a fan of Kevin but I loved this interview
Why not, just go back to Stock Car Racing with 900 hp and smaller tires. Running Trans-am/ Formula one / Indy cars IS NOT STOCK CAR RACING. If they are going to run these cars
then rename the sport! National Association "SPORT" Car Automobile Racing. Sorry guys but that's just what it is. I cannot get any one who has or had ties with NASCAR to answer one question. Are the teams building these cars, or are they having to buy them from one source? 500 hp car at Atlanta, BORING!! A good late model dirt race is better than this.
My street car got more power than a cup car……. Now thats a problem.
I apologize as not a big NASCAR fan but a fan of this podcast. But this guest appears to have a burn in his left arm. Is that a race injury or just his arm hair being in an unusual pattern.
NASCAR fans: we need more short tracks
Also NASCAR fans: short track racing sucks
Racing fans at its finest
I think they should lighten up the short track cars for better handling.These things are built like tanks and if they aren`t out of control as far as speed it might make for more exciting racing.Faster tracks? Stick with the battle wagons.
Nothing but a Indy Car with a body on it. Go back to the old car.
Whoever's idea it was to reduce horsepower needs to be ousted and exiled
LoL. 550hp to make it easy on manufacturers … smh … you can go to a dealership and get 600+ with a 36k mile warranty 😂😂
Horse power is excitement gotta love it
A couple of the best!