NASCAR All-Star Race 2018

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In some ways, the NASCAR All-Star Race portrayed aspects of a typical 1.5-mile event.But the NASCAR All-Star Race wouldn’t rate as typical as NASCAR experimented with an aerodynamic package that featured restrictor plates, front air ducts that pushed air through the front wheel wells and a big spoiler.For an event desperately needing a boost, the non-points race got one Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The lead changed 12 times when counted at the start/finish line — none in the final 11 laps — but 38 times, according to NASCAR, when using its timing lines scattered throughout the track.NASCAR had one promising night. But don’t get too excited just yet. NASCAR’s charter agreements with the teams require several months of lead time for major aerodynamic changes. They can’t make the change for this year (at least with approval from the teams, which is doubtful, because of the costs involved).
As much as anyone hates to hear it, the prudent approach is the right approach even after a relatively successful All-Star Race that saw cars run much closer together and drivers working together to get their lane to run faster and push each other to the lead. The race featured the typical move of helping a driver to make some passes and then hanging that driver out to dry in order to advance positions.”From an eye test, we were certainly pleased with what we saw,” NASCAR executive vice president Steve O’Donnell said. “I think you’ll hear drivers say, directionally, there’s some things we can look at. We agree. … We’ll try to put a timeline together to look toward 2019.”
Brad Keselowski, not a fan of the package when announced last month, delivered this assessment:”You definitely seem to draft a little bit more, which has its highs and lows, but track position is super important, drag is super important,” he said. “Give us a few weeks to work on the race cars with a package like this and I’m sure we can mess it up.”Keselowski was not being sarcastic. The teams were given the front aero ducts and didn’t know their exact design until Friday. Their wind tunnel time and simulation data were limited because of it.Not surprising, drivers had different ideas for how to work on it, how to tweak it.
“It’s interesting for sure,” AJ Allmendinger said after he won the last-chance qualifying race. “I’ve still got mixed feelings on it. … Part of me thinks if we didn’t have as much restrictor, maybe a little more motor, it would be a little bit better. It was interesting for sure.”The top speeds in practice clocked in at 16 mph slower than with the previous package.”There is some tweaking [needed],” Joey Logano said after his third-place finish. “Personally, I would like to get rid of the drag ducts, just to try it. I don’t think that’s the right direction. Maybe it is. You don’t know until you try it.”I thought the racing was pretty entertaining from the driver’s seat. I would assume from TV and from the grandstands it was pretty entertaining.”
NASCAR will use the package for the Xfinity Series cars at Pocono, Michigan and Indianapolis. Harvick and O’Donnell said the key is engine development so they don’t have three different engine packages — one for restrictor plates at Daytona/Talladega, another for restrictor-plate races at select intermediate tracks, and then non-restricted engines for the rest of the races.”By the time it evolves, especially for the engine shop, this particular engine package would need to look very similar to what your Daytona and Talladega package [need] to look like. … That’s the reason you can’t just say, ‘Pull the trigger, let’s do it,'” Harvick said.Any rules package for 2019 likely would have to be decided by early September.”It’s a [new] motor package; it’s potential body change from what we race,” said Greg Zipadelli, Stewart-Haas Racing vice president of competition. “We’re just creating more work for ourselves, which just takes more resources.
“If it puts good racing on and the races are spread out, we’ll all figure it out as teams. Dumping it on us right now wouldn’t be the right thing to do.”But there will be plenty of conversations, and soon.”Directionally [we] do like some of the things you see,” O’Donnell said. “Now you’ve got to get together with the industry, debrief like we always do with the race teams, the drivers, certainly listen to the tracks and the fans, then the [manufacturers], talk about how do we continue to look at this and look at it in a smart way, look at it in an efficient way.”The drivers seemed relatively content with the racing. Harvick, mired in the pack for the second and third stages of the four-stage event, said it felt a little bit like an old race at Daytona when the track had several bumps.
“You could dive to the bottom, and the middle and the top was still going to be faster coming on the outside of you,” Harvick said. “I probably made a lot moves I shouldn’t have made, but you are trying to make something happen.”There was one big wreck, and it occurred because Martin Truex Jr. was taking more than giving, a typical restrictor-plate crash.”I knew if I let off and made sure we all didn’t crash, none of the other guys would have and I wasn’t going to win,” Truex said. “So I kept my foot in it and hoped we all could keep it straight. And I guess we all ran out of room. … We were four-wide going into [Turn 3] and there’s just not enough room for that.”
Truex quipped the package “was fun while it lasted” and the one good thing was he was able to improve on being awful in practice Saturday morning to running well Saturday night.No cars got airborne, a typical concern on restrictor-plate tracks.”I’m pretty sure there’s still a chance,” Allmendinger said. “That giant thing [of a spoiler] that hangs on the back of our race car, if it turns backward, I’m pretty sure [it will go over].”This is a test. That is what this race is about. … I wish the cars will be a little bit faster, but they sure put on a good race.”
“That’s not my decision to make,” Keselowski said. “They’re going to do what they want to do. It doesn’t matter what I like. I like having a job.”President Donald Trump congratulated 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. and also thanked NASCAR for its support of him and his policies during a 10-minute ceremony Monday at the White House.”You [had] 19 top-5 finishes and led more than 2,000 laps. Does it get lonely being in front?” Trump said as he turned to Truex. “Not at all. Never, right? … Thanks to incredible speed, lightning-fast pit stops and exceptional driving, this team stood alone among NASCAR’s many contenders.”
Trump said NASCAR chairman Brian France has been his friend “for a long time” and said France has been doing “a fantastic job” running NASCAR.France’s endorsement of Trump in February 2016 was both celebrated and criticized within the NASCAR industry.”Brian has been with us since the beginning, like so many others who love NASCAR,” Trump said. “He’s been really a supporter right from the beginning. He said, ‘We support Trump.’ And so I want to thank you very much, Brian. That was incredible. That meant a lot.”The president also thanked NASCAR for its patriotism and for the drivers standing during the national anthem. NASCAR has no written policy on whether drivers and crews must stand for the national anthem, but no driver or crew member is known to have demonstrated during its playing.
“At every NASCAR race, you will see thousands of patriotic Americans from the grandstands to the pit stalls proudly waving our flag and roaring with joy at the words, ‘Start your engines,'” Trump said. “I will tell you, one thing I know about NASCAR, they do indeed, Brian, stand for the playing of the national anthem, right? They do indeed. Somebody said maybe you shouldn’t say that, that will be controversial. I said ‘That’s OK. NASCAR is not going to mind it at all, right, fellas?'”In congratulating Furniture Row Racing, Trump spoke about how the team overcame heartbreak in winning the race the day after crew member Jim Watson died away from the track at Kansas in October. Trump also spoke about Truex’s girlfriend, Sherry Pollex, and her fight against ovarian cancer.
“She is an incredible woman, and, Sherry, your determination in the face of adversity has been an inspiration to millions of Americans who know what you’re going through,” Trump said. “You’ve endured extremely tough treatments with grace and grit and a tremendous and beautiful smile. You are Sherry strong.”Truex presented Trump with a replica of one of his racing helmets.”I’m just really proud to be here today to represent the sport, to represent our millions of fans out there across the world,” Truex said.Chase Elliott was announced Saturday as the winner in fan voting for the final spot in the Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race (8 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Elliott, 22, was the top vote-getter among drivers not already qualified for the main event for the third consecutive year. The balloting puts his Hendrick Motorsports No. 9 Chevrolet into the exhibition’s field as the 21st and final entry.“I’m just appreciative of the support, especially it being the third year in a row,” Elliott said. “That does mean a lot to me, and it’s pretty special as a racer to know that the folk that are at home voting have my back like that. I definitely would love to make the people that voted for me proud and that’s the ultimate goal. I’ll keep working at it and hopefully get there one day.”
Elliott led twice for three laps and finished third in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Open qualifying race. He also placed third in the first two stages, narrowly missing a transfer spot into the main event by his preferred method of racing his way in.
“For sure, I rather wanted to race my way in and not have to even worry about the fan vote this year, but it was a fun race, really,” Elliott said. “It was interesting to drive it, and I’m sure it was interesting to watch. I’m looking forward to being in the big show. I appreciate all the folks that voted for me again this year. Hopefully this time last year, we’ll be in the big show and won’t have to worry about it.”As we mentioned earlier, prior to the All-Star Race drivers who haven’t qualified can compete in the Monster Energy Open to claim a spot in the field. Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, William Byron, Aric Almirola, Daniel Suarez, Erik Jones and Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. are among those expected to compete in the open. The winners of the three stages in the open will qualify for the All-Star Race.Last year’s winner, Kyle Busch, is looking to defend his title and add another million to his purse. Busch has been hot to start the season, claiming three wins which is second in the series to Kevin Harvick with five.
“For us, being an all-star and being in the All-Star Race is one of the most fun things we get to do each year,” Busch said to NASCAR. “I’d say the Clash is another one of those and, with the All-Star Race, they are certainly two fun races where we get a chance to go after just a win and bring home the checkers or end up on the wrecker.
“It’s an exciting night and there’s a lot of energy there. It gives you the opportunity to run that many qualifying laps in a row. That’s all you’re doing – you’re giving it all you’ve got every single lap.”Unfortunately for Busch, history is not on his side. Only one driver since 1998 has secured multiple victories in the All-Star Race and that driver is none other than seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson. Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch, Jamie McMurray, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano have also won the event.