Yes! We can race now
January 22nd 2010 13:55
After years of complaining by the drivers in nascar. The front office has finally listened as is going to loosen up on bump driving and actually let the drivers drive.
After having lots of different meetings between drivers and the front office lots of concerns were raised and solved. Brian france had this to say about the meetings "When you're at the race track with them all the time, you have the communication lines wide open. That's true," France said. "But it's too busy now to assume we can get all the issues they want to get resolved with us at the track. So we just changed that around, and we're now having these meetings, and they're very beneficial. I'm real happy with how they have gone. You get them in a smaller environment, they're just around their own teammates, you get some good input, and that's what we wanted."
Not everything was changed; as recently as this week, drivers lobbied hard for the retention of the yellow-line rule at restrictor-plate tracks, which presents advancing a position on the apron. The result -- it stays. "Most of the drivers said, look, we have got enough changes, let's move forward the way we are, and we can continue to look at it," said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president for competition.
"Throughout the history of our sport, we go and we come back, and we go and we come back," Helton said. "For the last few years, we are on a comeback cycle of backing away from rules and regulations, because I've got to tell you, nobody wants to regulate the sport. We are the last people on earth that want to over-regulate the sport, because it takes a lot to do that. But there's a lot of steps in regulating the sport that we have to take to ensure the safety and the correctness of the competition between the competitors, and also balance the safety between the competitors and the race fans."
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