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The one 2024 formula season ended with Max Verstappen as pilot champion for the fourth consecutive year, but that does not tell the whole story. McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes have all won several races with McLaren winning their first manufacturers’ championship in 26 years.

The first action of 2025 is not too far. After a lot of media threshing, Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari after more than a decade in Mercedes. He had his first outing in the famous red car in Maranello as he continued his acclimatization program.

As always, there is not too much time before the start of the 2025 season by pre-season tests in Bahrain, then the Australian Grand Prix for the opening of the season. Here is a bottom on everything you need to know before what could be one of the great years of F1.

When do pre-season tests take place?

As for last season, the 2025 season will only have one official pre-season test. This takes place from Wednesday, February 26 to Friday, February 28, included at the International Circuit Sakhir in Bahrain. It has not yet been confirmed, but the format should be three days of two four -hour sessions with a one hour lunch break between the two.

When is the first race of the 2025 season?

Unlike 2024, the new season begins with the Australian Grand Prix in Albert Park in Melbourne. This takes place from Friday March 14 to Sunday March 16.

How many races will there be in 2025?

For the second time in the history of F1, the season will include 24 Grand Prix and six sprint races, ending in the season final in Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi on December 8.

When and where are sprint races?

They are in China, Miami, Belgium, Austin, Sao Paulo and Qatar. The format will remain the same in that there will be sprint qualifications to define the grid for the Sprint race and eight world championship points are allocated for the winner to a point for the eighth finisher.

In short, the weekends of the Sprint 2024 race are as follows.

• Chinese Grand Prix, March 21-23

• Miami Grand Prix, May 2-4

• Belgian Grand Prix, from July 25 to 27

• Grand Prix of the United States, from October 17 to 19

• Sao Paulo Grand Prix, November 7-9

• Qatar Grand Prix, November 28-30

When is the summer break?

2024 contained both an official summer break – including a compulsory two -week stop period for all the staff of the F1 team – and an unofficial fall break with three weekends in a row. However, this has disappeared from the 2025 calendar with the races generally a little more spread.

July and August may be less eventful than they were, with a three-week gap between the British Grand Prix on July 6 and the Belgian Grand Prix on July 27. This year’s summer break begins after the Belgian Grand Prix, on Monday August 4. The action returns on Friday August 29 with the practice of the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort.

What do new car deliveries look like?

The cars of the 2025 F1 class were unveiled with the very first unified launch event of the sport, which took place at the O2 Arena on Tuesday, February 18. While the cars they take at tests will probably be different with regard to aerodynamic parts, deliveries are those in which the teams will run for the coming season.

SAUBER C45

Williams FW47

Haas VF-25

VCARB02 racing bulls

Alpine A525

Aston Martin AMR25

Mercedes W16

Red Bull RB21

Ferrari SF-25

McLaren MCL39

What are the pilot programs?

There are quite a few changes to the grid in 2025, Sergio Perez being released by Red Bull the latest news. There are also no six recruits of the season in the middle of the grid. Yes, Oliver Bearman, Jack Doohan and Liam Lawson all participated in races, but none of them started a season before. They are joined by Kimi Antonelli in Mercedes, Isack Hadjar in RB and Gabriel Bortoleto in Sauber, who have never run in F1.

There are also changes elsewhere while Lewis Hamilton makes his Ferrari debut, Carlos Sainz moves to Williams, Esteban Ocon passes to Haas and Nico Hulkenberg moves from Haas to Sauber.

What is the full calendar of 2025?

How to watch F1 on TV and streaming

As has been the case for some time now, in the United Kingdom, Sky Sports F1 has almost exclusive coverage rights for the season. They will show all training sessions, qualification sessions, sprint qualifications and races throughout the season. Pre-season test also probably.

Channel 4 will again have its strong qualifications and its highlights, with the British Grand Prix in July Broadcast Live.

If you are outside the United Kingdom, you can also subscribe to the F1TV of F1 for monthly costs throughout the season.

2024 Championship classification

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The two Indycar races at Iowa Speedway in 2025 will be 25 longer than last year, Indycar and the new distribution partner of the series announced on Tuesday.

Indycar races at Iowa Speedway are scheduled for 4:12 p.m. July on July 13. In 2024, the two Indycar races at Iowa Speedway were 250 rpm or approximately 218 miles. This year, each race will be 275 rpm, around 240 miles, Indycar announced on Tuesday.

Indycar and Fox lengthened six of the 17 races in its annex “to maximize the fascinating wheel racing action”, according to a press release. Fox and Indycar also announced that long Beach, California races; During a mid-ohio sports car; Toronto; And Nashville, Tennessee, will be lying.

Fox – Channel 17 at monks – will televise each Indycar race in 2025, the first time that each of the series races will be on network television.

“It will be an unrivaled exhibition season for the NTT Indycar series,” said Indycar president Doug Boles, in a press release. “Fox Sports turned out to be a superb partner and promoter. As the season approaches, we know that their unique style of engaging and innovative programs will continue to raise the bar and drive an unequaled growth opportunity for Indycar . “

The Iowa Speedway will be one of the four slopes that host the NASCAR CUP series and the NTT Indycar series this year. The others are Indianapolis Motor Speedway, World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis and Nashville Superspeedway.

Hy-vee, based in West of the Moines, will be the title sponsor for Indycar races at Iowa Speedway for the fourth consecutive year and will be the title godfather for hy-vee, based in West of Indycar monks rushes to the ‘Iowa Speedway for the fourth consecutive year and will be the title sponsor of the Nascar Xfinity series, race Scheduled for August 2.

More: Indycar at Iowa Speedway: What do Indycar observers do?

At a virtual press conference last week, the president of Iowa Speedway, Eric Peterson, said that there was unprecedented support for all forms of racing in Iowa at the moment.

“There are many racing fans in the state of Iowa,” said Peterson.

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London (AP) – The Monaco Grand Prix has long been nicknamed “the jewel of the Formula 1 crown”, but for all the brilliance, the race has often been dull.

This could change with a planned change of rule which would force the drivers to stop in the stands at least twice, to mix the operating order of the narrow streets of Monaco at least a little.

The Formula 1 commission, which brings together the F1 teams and the management with the director body, the FIA, met Tuesday before the new launch event in London and “agreed to increase the number of ‘Compulsory stand stops “in Monaco, said FIA.

The change of rule is not yet fixed in stone – the FIA ​​has declared that “the proposals will be discussed in more detail” by a committee – but the director of the Red Bull Christian Horner team said that it would mean a minimum Two stops per race, rather than the current current, and so that cars use three compounds of different tires.

“Obviously, Monaco, you cannot change the layout of the circuit. And of course, as we saw previously, with in particular these cars as large as they are, the race is very dictated by Saturday (qualification session), “said Horner.

“So what we saw last year is that if you get a red flag very early and everyone puts another tire, then it’s very static. So, indicating that you must potentially use the three compounds brings another element. He therefore became a race for two stops and if he rained also, it would also be a compulsory stop for two. It is therefore unique to this race.

Last year’s racing in Monaco was mirror in red after the accidents of the first time and resumed with a standing restart, which allowed all the cars to change the tires. With an almost impossible overtaking in the streets of Monaco, Charles Leclerc won victory without stopping.

The FIA ​​said that the Commission also approved a new cooling system for drivers in hot races and “more rigorous” tests on the flexibility of the front and rear wings of cars.

These rules were examined last year when McLaren’s rear wing seemed to bend at high speed, potentially allowing a higher top speed. New tests for the rear wings will apply from the start of the season and for the wings before the weekend of the Spanish Grand Prix in late May and early June.

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Could the Monaco Grand Prix have at least two compulsory stops in 2025?

The FIA ​​said on Tuesday that the F1 committee “had discussed specific regulations proposals in Monaco” and “the Commission agreed to increase the number of compulsory stands in the race”. These proposals will be discussed further by the sports advisory committee in the coming weeks.

The F1 teams are currently required to make at least one tire change during a Grand Prix in dry conditions. The teams must run at least two of the three tires available during a race, which means that if a pilot starts the race on the soft compound tire, he must also run the medium or hard tire at a given time during of the event.

Monaco has been a source of dismay for F1, because the winding track through the Principality does not have much room for cars to be exceeded, especially since F1 cars have become much larger in recent years. The race is one of the most famous on the calendar, but the qualification day has an excessive importance.

Four of the last six races have not presented a single change of head and you have to return to the 2016 race to find the last race with more than two changes of the head. There have not been more than four head changes in a single Monaco Grand Prix since the 2004 race.

The commission’s proposal was unveiled among other announcements Tuesday before the painting program for each team Tuesday afternoon. The FIA ​​said: “New more rigorous deviation tests on the front wing will be introduced from the Spanish Grand Prix” and, “new more rigorous deviation tests on the rear wing” would start at the start of the season. The fastest teams in recent years have been accused as much as possible the wings rigidity rules by moving and deviation of cars while cars are at high speed to create more support strength and reduce the trail.

He will lead a Formula 1 car this season at speeds greater than 200 MPH, but the British adolescent Oliver Bearman revealed that he had failed his driving test after “failed to stop at a stop panel ».

The 19 -year -old Haas pilot was admitted before the live launch of the F1 on Tuesday evening at the London O2 Arena.

Asked about the recruit of F1, Kimi Antonelli, the 18 -year -old Italian, who has just passed his driving test six months after being confirmed as the replacement of Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes this season, Bearman joked by saying That he was a “veteran” in comparison after failing after having failed after failing after having failed first time.

“Fortunately, I spent a few years ago, because you can spend it to 17 here rather than 18 as in Italy,” said Bearman. “But I succeeded the second time.” He then took a break and added: “I shouldn’t have told you.”

Pressed why he had failed, Bearman laughed and said, “I did not stop at a stop panel. But I haven’t burned [through] he. I slowed down. I was crawling. But [yes]You are supposed to stop.

“We do not have those on the race slopes, so it was my first observation of a stop panel. But me typical, or a typical probable racing pilot, I thought I could pass my test without any lesson. So that’s probably there that I was wrong. So I took a few lessons before the second. But yes, I have been driving since 2022 now, so a very experienced driver here. »»

Bearman added that he had a BMW 1 series but had now driven a Tonale Company Alfa Romeo car.

Bearman, who is part of the Ferrari Driver Academy, became the first of last season when he intervened for Carlos Sainz at the 11th hour of Saudi Arabia after the Spaniard fell with appendicitis. Bearman finished seventh, becoming simultaneously the youngest British to have participated in F1 and the youngest driver of all nationality to score points in his early days.

He will be one of the five British drivers on the grid this year alongside Hamilton (Ferrari), Lando Norris (McLaren), George Russell (Mercedes) and the British pilot Alex Albon (Williams).

Although he ran three times last year, once for Ferrari and twice for Haas, Bearman said he still considered himself a recruit.

“I do not know what the team expects from me, but I am very hard for me,” replied Bearman when asked what he expected from him this season. “I have no expectations based on positions. It is impossible before the car is angry. I want to learn and be consistent.

“But, and it’s often overlooked, I also really want to take advantage of it. I live my dream here. You only get one recruited season.

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The Nascar Craftsman Truck series takes place in Atlanta Motor Speedway for the FR8 208 Saturday (1:30 p.m. He, FS1, Radio MRN, Siriusxm Nascar Radio).

More: weekend schedule

Here is an overview of the list of full entries for the event:

(i) is equivalent to driver championship points

Ok, friends, shows are over. Let’s go.

Now the NASCAR 2025 season can start.

Other imminent spring sporting signs are a little more subtle. Baseball loses the winter coat by inviting launchers and sensors to Arizona and Florida, where the familiar smart of Horsehide meeting the cow tank warms souls. Finally, the Masters arrive to fully inaugurate winter towards the sidewalk, with a Jim Nantz almost week offering the Eulogy / Intro combo.

Nothing sweet in the suspicion of Nascar from the end of winter. You get 40 (or 41) explosions of internal combustion trumpets, Air Force Thunderbirds to sparkle your molars, and in this particular case, an Air Force One Fly-By.

The subtlety is damned.

Let’s try to put an arc on another Daytona opener.

DUMMY? Daytona 500: Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon Critique Joey Logano for “Dumb Move” late on the crash

First equipment: everything is fine in Daytona, until it is not

Suppose that drivers are not better than they were a generation or two (or three). That said, it seems that you should give credit to Aero boys as well as to the people of Goodyear, because the Daytona 500 worked in three large for long periods on Sunday evening, and without incident …

… Until the auditors are at a sniff distance.

A big one, then another, then the final big with the beating white flag and the ladies without ransacking. A few things about it.

First of all, it is sometimes too difficult to blame. You just have to tumble it because too many hungry people fight to go to the hollow and run out of space.

Second, my God, good fortune is sometimes the key to winning a great race. William Byron escapes outside just when things go crazy on his left and run in daylight.

Third, I have to ask. The Nascar race manager did not press the yellow button during this chaos of the last blow. Notice? When there is no apparent danger to do it, it is intelligent to let them run towards the band.

But three days earlier during the second duel qualification, Erik Jones spit at distance from the band when an accident fled behind and they immediately turned the lights of the warning. Jones won, but he didn’t do it, because Austin Cindric was a mustache before when yellow flashed.

It was not until Thursday, but imagine this scene taking place on a Sunday, especially the biggest Sunday in sport.

Ok, another thing. If Mike Joy writes a book based solely on his career in Daytona, the title must be: “… and they crash!” It was discreet, but perfect.

Second equipment: Legacy Motor Club turns a corner (maybe)

Jimmie Johnson searched through the size at the end and pulled a third place.

The teammate John Hunter Nemechek pocketed a fifth place. Erik Jones launched the latest sheet metal carnage explosion to take a respectable Daytona finish.

Since the Jimmie team was a year ago, they left Daytona with a wind in the back (a lot of wind to have Sunday, by the way). It must be a good sign, right?

Well, maybe. He certainly beats the alternative, but I hope that everyone has learned not to put too much stock in “plates races”. Normally, we suggest that more will be quickly learned about a team’s capacities, but this week brings Atlanta, which has become a piece of Racin de Plate a few years ago.

And then a road route to Austin.

As for 2025, we will have a solid view of the place where everyone is after the six weeks that followed before Easter breaks in mid-April. Will the inheritance be among those in good shape? Perhaps, but it will not be due to missing wrecks in Daytona.

Third equipment: Dale Earnhardt Jr. obtains a taste of the cup

Regarding young girl’s trips in the deep end of the NASCAR swimming pool, it was an investment enough at risk for Junior Earnhardt, whose operation of the Xfinity series gathered a Daytona 500 effort with Justin Allgaier driving.

Junior obtained a car from Hendrick Motorsports and funding from Chris Stapleton’s whiskey operation, so he did not have to withdraw a second mortgage to get there. However, it was something to see Junior So Over The Moon when Allgaier found the fast way and was wound on enough land last Thursday to secure a Daytona 500 slit.

JR Motorsports de junior field of four cars in the XFINITY series, including the Allgaier championship field in 2024, and for a long time said that the Cup series was too much a financial commitment at this stadium. The week in Daytona, which ended with the ninth place of Allgaier, did not attenuate Junior’s enthusiasm for a future cup effort.

“I would like to do this,” Earnhardt told NBC Sports after 500. “This is where we belong. This is where we want to be.

However, these charters are not cheap.

“We cannot do it by ourselves,” said Junior. “So he will take good people who want to invest in something that, I believe, has a lot of value and a lot of potential.”

It looks like a guy ready to make an argument for sale.

Meanwhile, did anyone say charters?

Fourth speed: the wheels of the legal bus turn and revolve around

In the days preceding Daytona 500, Nascar posted an appeal in the antitrust case brought by a pair of his teams from the series of Cups – 23X and first.

Several weeks earlier, an American district judge granted the two teams an injunction which allows them to operate this season as approved teams, which means that they keep their departure points guaranteed each week and receive a larger slice of financial pie that they would not do it as non -non -charters.

“The injunction orders of the district court flout the antitrust federal law; Apply the established rules governing the use of preliminary injunctions; ignore unrecognized and legally significant evidence; And have radical implications for the Nascar 2025 Cup 2025 series season, “said Nascar’s call.

If you play this to the end, assuming that an agreement before the trial cannot be reached, and consider what would happen if Nascar lost at the trial, you could find yourself looking around and saying: “Ok , now what? “

Good question.

Could Nascar simply dissolve the charter system and return to the old ways of “independent entrepreneurs” and no guarantee? This possibility was suggested by some spectators, but if you think that the current legality is annoying, imagine the mess that would create.

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This article originally appeared in the Journal of Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona 500 Recap: Nascar roars life while Donald Trump comes and goes

Daytona Beach, Florida (AP) – Help him, Tom Cruise!

The Nascar Hall of Famer, Jeff Gordon, wanted a suite “Days of Thunder” and told Daytona International Speedway that he was in contact with the Hollywood actor for the project to life.

“I absolutely talked to Tom because I want him to do the project,” said Gordon. “We want to be part of it if it should happen.”

The Hollywood Reporter reported in November that Cruise had spoken to Paramount about a follow -up of his 1990 Nascar Racing film. The original was a critical scanning summer blockbuster that was largely supported in the NASCAR industry for its exaggeration and its exaggeration.

Over the decades, the film has since become a cult favorite in Nascar circles and is still quoted by racing fans to date.

“Rubbin ‘, son, racked” “,” Living, the immortal line of the Crew Manager Harry Hogge, played by Robert Duvall.

Halling high of its reputation “Top Gun”, Cruise had an idea for a film based on fast cars and the characters who ran them. And thus began the manufacture of “Thunder days”.

Gordon could inspire that Cole Traffle de Cruise at the time, although the character was vaguely based on the late Tim Richmond. Gordon, now vice-president of Hendrick Motorsports, won the Daytona 500 on Sunday with the owner of the Rick Hendrick team and driver William Byron. Gordon and Cruise remained friendly – Cruise presented himself in a 2015 NASCAR banquet to honor the retired Gordon – which could stimulate the prospect of the participation of Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports in a suite.

“He seems to like to tease him, so I don’t know,” said Gordon on Sunday evening. “We will see what’s going on. If this does not happen, I am confident enough that there is a project that will bring Nascar back on the big screen, otherwise really cool documentation or something beyond what we already see at the moment. “”

The film finally introduced Nascar to a wider audience which had a very limited exhibition for car races in stock before this summer. There had been racing films before – think of “Thunder Road”, “Grand Prix”, “Stroker Ace”, or even “Smokey and the Bandit” – but none that had represented Nascar in such a general public style.

“Difficult to imagine how you finish it today because they actually had racing cars with cameras in the race, and the cameras were big,” said Gordon. “The cameras have become much smaller, so maybe you could remove it, but how do you do it and make it realistic and really authentic?”

Nascar has seen more swings and failures than checkered flags with regard to its representation on the large or small screen from “Days of Thunder”. For all the “Talladega evenings”, there are 10 additional bombs such as the unhappy Netflix series of the actor Kevin James, “The Crew.” Gordon said he had been encouraged that the better days were ahead of Nascar in the entertainment industry.

“I just see much more momentum in projects like coming by Nascar and coming to Hendrick Motorsports and just more interest,” he said. “So it’s good, right?” He talks a lot about the place where sport is, where the incredible crowd was headed here all weekend, not only today, new television partners. “”

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Daytona Beach – Before preparing to win another Daytona 500, William Byron wanted to escape – far, in a place where he could blend and leave behind the version and the garage.

An unaccompanied December trip to Japan provided byron with a restart, a time of reflection, a self -sufficiency lesson and an education.

“It was really cool because I went there by myself, and I was really nervous about it,” said Byron late Sunday after being consecutive in the great American race. “The first and a half day was really crazy, to be there and try to understand where to eat and what to do. But at the end of the trip, I had such a different perspective on my life and what I want to do at home and what I could learn from their culture.

“It was just cool to be completely anonymous in another country and not knowing anyone.”

When Byron returned to work a few weeks ago, he was rejuvenated and ready, as evidenced by the unlikely victory of Sunday evening of ninth place in Victory Lane in the last round.

Despite this, the absence of Byron’s off -season was still a shoemaker at Hendrick Motorsports.

“I still do not believe that he went himself,” joked the legend of Nascar Jeff Gordon, now vice-president of society. “I always try to get all the answers to that.”

Whatever Byron worked to deliver Hendrick Motorsports a record victory for the 10th Daytona 500, one more than small businesses.

“I spoke to him on the phone, and this is one of the first things he said:” We got the number 10 “,” said Gordon about the owner of the Hall of Fame Rick Hendrick. “It means a lot for him.”

With the apparently out of reach race while the Chevrolet n ° 24 underperform, Byron kept its head and took an 11th hour opportunity similar to its victory in 2024.

“I kept getting upset over the course of the race,” he said. “I don’t take advantage of it because my car was really good.”

But during a Dash Furious at two rounds in overtime, an accident eliminated the leader Denny Hamlin – in a position to win his fourth Daytona 500 championship – and the winner in 2022, Austin Cindric, who led a 59 -round summit, To erase a path for Byron during the last section of the 201-Tours on Sunday, eight hours, delayed more than 3 and a half hours.

“Last year, this victory made me cry,” said the longtime crew chief Rudy Fugle. “And then this victory made me laugh because I looked up and we are preparing to win. It was simply incredible.

Two hours after Byron overshadowed Gordon’s brand as a younger winner of the Nascar showcase event, the 53 -year -old fame was always stunned.

“I was quite shocked,” said Gordon. “You get the accumulation and anticipation of”, guy, I think we are able to win this thing “, and you are tense because you want it for them, and you want it for the organization. But today, I was not at all like that.

“I said to myself: ‘Oh, well, damn. I guess we are not going to get it this year. Then we are there. It was a kind of wild ride.

The rise of Byron at the top of his sport was a wild and unpredictable walk in itself.

Similar to his recent excursion to Japan, the 27 -year -old arrival trip to Nascar was a trip to a foreign country.

Having grown up in Charlotte, Byron became interested in car races in stock at the age of 6 and became an irrabling phenomenon in her teenagers who was finally transformed into cars at the age of 15 – long in the tooth in relation to his peers.

“I was really a stranger,” he said.

But Byron’s talent quickly became clear.

In 2019, at the age of 21, he won the Daytona 500 pole and in 2020 won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 to obtain a place in the 16 -cars qualifiers.

Byron followed a season of six victories in 2023 with his 2024 Daytona 500 victory, driving the emblematic car n ° 24, Gordon led to three victories and 93 in total in the Cup series.

“We are talking all the time about the speed with which he increased in the ranks and won races and championships and continues to do so at the elite cup level,” said Gordon.

Fugle, a 40 -year -old man from West New York, was there at every stage.

“This is our 20th victory together,” he said. “It’s special just because of our relationship and our confidence in each other and how we respect each other and grow.”

However, Fugle admitted a little frustration, if not separation anxiety, when Byron left for the Far East.

“It was difficult,” said Fugle. “I used to see it a little more.”

But when it counted mostly on Sunday evening, Byron appeared again from the peloton.

He soon offered Sayonara to the rest of the field and Konnichiwa – Japanese for Hello – in history as one of the five men to win the Daytona 500 consecutive, leading Byron to celebrate with donuts on the field followed by a Jump from his car foot in the arms waiting for the waiting arms of the waiting arms of the waiting arms of the waiting arms of the arms waiting for the waiting arms of the waiting arms his crew at the stand.

“It worked lucky for us,” he said. “But it’s not all the chance to win twice in a row.”

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Kyle Busch was not happy after the first race of Daytona 500 and the crash which ended his chances of winning the biggest Nascar race.

In his post-crash interview with Fox, Busch was not delighted with the aggressive movement of Joey Logano who led to the Crash of the Tour 186 which involved Busch and several others near the front of the field. Busch then turned his attention to Nascar officials speaking with the media.

The double champion of the Cup series believed that his n ° 8 Richard Childe Chevrolet could have continued in the Sunday race, but could not partly because of the procedural decisions of Nascar.

“We were again beaten by NASCAR procedures,” Busch told several media members after the race.

Sunday’s race was the first regular season race under the new damaged vehicle rules for NASCAR which allow teams to work on damaged cars without time limit in the garage area, a change from the rules of the DVP in recent seasons.

“(Nascar) towed us in a working field where our guys examined the car, looked at the car and saw nothing wrong. All the wheels were pointed in the right direction,” said Busch. “We have put four new tires on it to come back to see what the next process for us would be.”

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Busch said NASCAR officials told his team that they should return to the garage to work more on the car, except that he had not been able to make a minimum speed because the race was still in caution. As part of the new DVP, the teams must reach a minimum speed before returning to the garage area for more repairs or being excluded from the race.

“So what are we supposed to do to continue working on it now that we have four new tires on it and that all the wheels are pointed out in the right direction?” Busch Impanne.

It was credited with a 34th place in the Sunday race.

Busch media ventilation was not enough.

“Built by Nascar officials,” Busch tweeted on X Sunday evening. “The rule says that you have 3 attempts to make a minimum speed. The race has never gone back to green. I don’t even think they know their own rules or procedures.”

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