Can anyone explain why these new cars only run in pairs and not a main draft.
The new surface has no bumps, and pushing one car with another behind was the fastest way around the track.
I didn’t like it early last week, but the 500 was just a very fun race to watch because of the difficulty of racing in pairs.
Because of the way they run in pairs with the second car in full contact with the first, any others would get absolutely no air and with one car in the middle, the middle car would be eventually spun out because of no air on the front or rear taking anyone else behind him out as well. The major factor is the splitter on the front of the car that could catch whatever air was coming under the first. With each additional car stacked in that chain the resulting availability of air to keep the front planted was even further diminsihed. Add to it all the lip spoiler that replaced the wing. All of these changes combined with the new super smooth surface resulted in what you saw. And I mean it was super smooth.