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Drivers Are Having So Much Trouble at NASCAR’s New Roval Track That Even the Pace Car Spun Out
Drivers Are Having So Much Trouble at NASCAR’s New Roval Track That Even the Pace Car Spun Out-February 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:13

’s running the at for the first time ever this year, and drivers are spinning—and subsequently crashing—more than figure skaters at the Olympics. If this were Wheel of Fortune, do you know how many words we would have spelled out by now? All of them.

Seriously, people are so bad at this that even the pace car spun out. It rocks.

The road course at Charlotte Motor Speedway is actually a mix of its 1.5-mile oval track and its interior road course, ” which comes out to 17 turns and nearly 2.3 miles. NASCAR’s had to more than once since announcing the roval, including to with shortcuts.

NASCAR added the roval after going more than 10 years without a road course in its “playoffs” to decide the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title. It was much needed, since the playoffs have been marred by seemingly repetitive, similar ovals for years. (Now all three top series, the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series, have playoffs. .)

The Cup Series and the Xfinity Series are at the roval this weekend, and it’s the first time NASCAR has ever run the configuration. Previous test sessions haven’t stopped countless drivers from spinning, wrecking and launching off of kerbs during the first few practice sessions so far, and that includes the person driving the pace car—a street version of the Toyota Camry. It is chaos.

Here’s a nice thread of all (most? some, even?) of the stuff that happened over the course of an hour earlier:

If you need me at all this weekend, don’t. The roval will be the only thing that has my attention.

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