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A Look At The Chaotic Indy Road Course Race
Publish Date: August 19, 2021
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Before the NASCAR Cup Series took to the road course at Indy,
the race was already under some scrutiny . Both fans and drivers alike were expressing their distaste for yet another road course race. Luckily for the naysayers, they were indeed validated. In probably one of the worst displays of racing NASCAR has seen in years, almost half the grid was taken out by one corner.
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NASCAR already had some caution flags heading into Sunday’s race. Both Indycar and the NASCAR Xfinity Series had issues in their races. The issues the races specifically had were with turn 6 on the circuit. At turn 6, there were curbs at the corner that unfortunately were not exactly designed for NASCAR stock cars.
On Saturday, several cars went airborne at turn 6. Now technically, those cars would not have gone airborne if the were racing the course correctly. The curbs are not designed for cars to drive over them, but it does still happen. And when a stock car specifically goes over the curb at turn 6, nothing pretty happens.
The race at the Cup race Indy road course did seem to be going off without a hitch on Sunday. But that completely changed as the race entered the final laps. As Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin were racing for the lead, the pack was racing hard behind them. As every driver was fighting for position as they went into turn 6, William Byron’s splitter caught the curb and ripped up the car’s underside.
This sent fluids all over the track, resulting in half the field being sent off the track.
On the ensuing restart after the mess from the first crash was cleaned up, the field crashed once again a turn 6. This really did not surprise anyone watching. The way the track is oriented just invites large incidents. This caused the race to be put on pause again to