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In NASCAR's best days, manufacturers had to innovate improvements and designs in their products yearly and produce a certain number of these cars for the consumer. These improvements, including safety and designs then showed up in the cars we drove on the streets. You could clearly see the differences between Chevy, Ford, Dodge, etc. which NASCAR now attempts to do with decals on these "cookie cutter" cars. For me, it removed the excitement of seeing what rolled out to the starting line at Daytona every year. Sadly, the days of "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday" are gone forever.
 

Physicist explains how NASCAR driver Ross Chastain's video game move at Martinsville worked​

Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky is a former physics professor with a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D on the subject.
She also wrote the 2008 book, The Physics of NASCAR.

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Physicist explains how NASCAR driver Ross Chastain's video game move at Martinsville worked

Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a former physics professor, explains why NASCAR driver Ross Chastain’s video game move worked at Martinsville Speedway.
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My son is all things NASCAR. He mentioned with the way these particular cars are built, considering what he did, there wasn't as much damage as you would maybe suspect. Last year's car probably would have caved in and possibly wouldn't have made it around both turns. Gutsy move. Probably the first and last time you will see it.
 
jmcd said:
My son is all things NASCAR. He mentioned with the way these particular cars are built, considering what he did, there wasn't as much damage as you would maybe suspect. Last year's car probably would have caved in and possibly wouldn't have made it around both turns. Gutsy move. Probably the first and last time you will see it.
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No question about it ...... last year's cars were all 'piece by piece' hand hung sheet metal, except for hood, roof and trunk lid which were actual factory pieces. All the rest of the body was 'shop formed' and hung onto the cage. All that sheet metal would have wrinkled up and rolled into a million balls of metal before it drug the whole car to a halted mess.

These new plastic (composite) skinned cars are far more resilient than you would think too. The spec cage is also a much fuller contact surface within the body to the wall even as rough as it was. That's one reason why we've seen so little damage overall to the bodies of the 'New Gen' car this year.
 
If I remember right, there going to change both the front and rear end area of the frame to make it absorb more in a crash instead of the driver taking the full impact, basically like a crunch zone
 
jmcd said:
I heard about a concussion of two from impacts front and rear. Drivers are complaining. Changes for next year.
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Kurt Busch was side lined with a concussion for the rest of the season after a rear 1st crash (backed into a wall) during qualifying at Pokono this year and recently announced he's likely finished with fulltime racing. He will continue on with 23XI team consulting for at least awhile next year. Possibly a few select drives.

In the meantime Bubba Wallace has taken over the #45 in an effort to try to win the "Owner's" championship. While Bubba's away from the 23XI car and in the #45, Ty Gibbs will drive it (23XI) for Bubba.

Alex Bowman was out for several events after backing into the wall at Texas and also sustaining a concussion. So far he's missed three events IIRC, and has now missed the season ending 'play-off' race. He will possibly be back in the seat for the championship final at Phoenix this coming Sunday.

This past Sunday at Martinsville, #8, Tyler Reddick had to pull out of the race due to some type of 'head' issue after a pretty hard 'head-on' into an inside wall after a spin which snapped his head forward then backward very rapidly. He was checked out at the infield care center and cleared. He opted to not get back in the car at that time. He said he still wasn't feeling "quite right".

All three drivers named here and several others through the year claimed they had taken hits in this new car totally unlike any hits they had ever felt before. Note: A good engineer/fabricator can build a car chassis that will take basically any hit you can drive it into with little to no damage ...... the problem is that no live human can tolerate those kinds of forces. Designs have to accomodate some of these forces being dissipated through crumpling of the chassis' before the driver's body has to absorb them.

These next gen cars were built for maximum performance and minimum destruction in a crash. Much like happened with the Whelen Modifieds several years ago when they continued to build the chassis'/cages stiffer and stiffer trying to reduce damage as much as possible in a crash, they finally reached a point where the cars were SO stiff they were resisting crumpling up in a crash and passed all the energy absorption forces to the driver.

Several named drivers were hurt and if memory serves a couple killed before they finally realized what was causing the issue. They've already determined the most serious of the rigid panels that were causing the hard hits with these new cars and have redesigned several support struts in both the front and rear of the new cars.
 
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