R&T Racing Recap: NASCAR Had A Bad Idea (Weekend of 8/16/15) - RoadandTrack.com (blog)
They did a very good job running two of them, one of them was even a bit of a classic, but they really didn't do great with the most important one. NASCAR at Michigan Matt Kenseth won his third race of the season today at Michigan in dominant form, but the race will be remembered for an exceptionally unpopular high-downforce experiment more than anything else. NASCAR Support Series: Xfinity Series at Mid-Ohio Stock car racing on road courses is rare, and stock car races on road courses with strange, wonderful fields of one-off drivers in competitive cars are even rarer?. Yesterday's race at Mid-Ohio was a shining example of such lunacy, and the win came down to a fight between former IndyCar driver Alex Tagliani in his lone race of the year for Roger Penske and former Sprint Cup Series driver Regan Smith of JR... Heading into the course's final braking zone, however, Tagliani made a mistake, and it allowed Smith to catch up to the Penske Ford's bumper at just the right time. He pushed gently, enough to move the car, which he likely would have made contact with either way, off the racing line but not enough to spin it or force it off track, and he took the lead in time to win the race. Though it seemed entirely fair game given the situation, a completely respectable move to win a race in a series that won't penalize you if you were to just spin someone around on the last lap for the fun of it, there was some backlash. Source: www.roadandtrack.com
