Yikes…
Look, NASCAR drivers have been complaining all week about the track condition and car setup for the Cup Series Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
And yeah, it’s a different look, something exciting for the fans, but there seems to be just too many issues to hammer out before NASCAR is really ready to put on a good dirt race.
We heard Kyle Larson and Joey Logano complain about the windshield, we heard Ryan Blaney say the black wall was a problem, Kyle Busch said we should just do away with it all together… it’s been rough.
And now that we’re here, we saw the top two drivers from a couple weeks ago at Richmond, Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick, leave the race early.
Needless to say, Kevin wasn’t happy:
“We did a terrible job prepping the track full of mud, there was nobody here pack the track so we all look like a bunch bozos coming in to pit, because we don’t know how to prep the track.
I had a great car, the track was fine, they just did a terrible job to start with… they’ve done this before, but obviously it doesn’t look like it.”
A frustrated Kevin Harvick after his race ended early. pic.twitter.com/gCJd6IlbuE
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) April 18, 2022
He was also frustrated with not getting the free pass when teammate Aric Almirola pitted on the green flag:
“And then we don’t get the lucky dog for whatever reason with two cars on pit road, and then we got run over. I don’t know who ran us over at the end.”
"That's complete bullshit that they can't figure out how to enforce their own rules."
Kevin Harvick— Jordan Bianchi (@Jordan_Bianchi) April 17, 2022
He went on to say that if it was up to him, they wouldn’t even be racing this race.
“Might be, but if I had my choice we wouldn’t be doing this anyway…”
#NASCAR — Kevin Harvick was not happy with how things went at Bristol this weekend: pic.twitter.com/RiKyyAcNJT
— Zach Sturniolo (@zachstur) April 18, 2022
We’ll see… might be looking at the last dirt race at Bristol for the foreseeable future…
