This Ridiculous Rule Is Being Introducing To The Nascar Truck Series For 2016
Nascar may call it the “most unique” change for the 2016 season, but we think the new ‘Caution Clock’ rule being introduced to the Trucks series this year is, quite frankly, absurd.
The Camping World Truck Series looks set to be shaken up this year with caution periods every 20 minutes after the start of a green flag run, if yellow flags fail to emerge before then.
The format will be different at several races. It will not be used at the Eldora Speedway and will be turned off with 20 laps remaining, except for events at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and Pocono Raceway where it will be stopped with 10 laps to go.
The Caution Clock will begin at the race start and will be reset at each green flag run. Steve O’Donnell, Nascar executive vice president, believes it will “break up” the races and “add strategy”.
But while it will give all drivers and teams the chance to pit and make car adjustments, doing so in such an artificial way will likely be tedious for the fans, predictable and could hinder the on-track action as well.
The Truck championship is the third tier in the national Nascar championships, below the Xfinity series and the top level Sprint Cup. The Caution Clock makes a slight nod to the Trucks’ series past, where shorter races were broken up by a half-time break.
What do you think of the new Caution Clock rule? Let us know in the comments!
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This is what non-car people see when they look at supercars on the roads, “Impractical A to B” cars that are chained by regulators at EVERY corner of a road. These race cars are NOT meant to trail behind a pace car for hours, they’re meant to compete each other at amazing speeds. These “regulators” aren’t improving racing by any means, they’re treating us like they’re our parents preventing us from roaming free. They’re making jail cells of unused horsepower before our very eyes. This isn’t racing anymore, this is speed limiting on a track.
Look, they’ve already made a good amount of fake cautions. This is unnecessary. Brian, get a brain.
Didn’t know Bernie Ecclestone was in charge of NASCAR.
The only way I could see this helping is giving them more fuel so they could drive faster. If that does not happen I think nascar is ruined
What is caution clock? I’m absolutely furios, been on google for 15 minutes, nothing. I even reached page 2.
If you read the article you might find out…
Taking the fake debris cautions and admitting what they’re actually doing; nice
Honestly, I’m glad they’re doing this in the Truck Series; it’s the lowest tier for national competition, and I think it’s a decent idea to break up fuel mileage races (which is probably their main goal here). What I’d prefer to see is a longer clock, like say, 45 mins, and a cap of the number of extra cautions per event say, 2 for every 100 miles or laps (for Bristol and Martinsville) of the event or something.
Although at the end of the day, it still feels a bit too chinsy or whatever the other word I was thinking of was
It won’t be half season until the repeal it.
So basically the races will be a bunch of short sprint races, but the drivers and teams don’t get breaks between each sprint
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