Driver Ryan Blaney says there's often more to an incident than just what the numbers show.
for a suspended Chase Elliott, avoided several accidents in Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 to produce a 21LaJoie started 30th after hitting the wall during qualifying. He fluctuated between the 24th and 28th positions throughout the race that had three red flags. The first was for a lightning delay that lasted 1 hour 45 minutes. The second was to clean debris from the track, while the third was to repair the SAFER barrier in turn one.
Hocevar, who made his NASCAR Cup debut in the Spire Motorsports Chevrolet normally driven by Corey LaJoie, completed 91 laps before a brake rotor on his car snapped as he entered turn one. Hocevar, who noted during his interview that he doesn’t have a job for next year, ran as high as 16th before the part failed and he had to settle for a last place finish in the 36-car field.
The third brake rotor that broke sent Gragson’s Chevrolet slamming into the wall. It relegated him to a 33rd-place finish. Wallace was on the verge of his fourth straight top-10 finish when with four laps remaining in the scheduled 240-lap race, a brake rotor failed. He finished 30th.Race Report“So, you’re heating and cooling, and a lot of times that creates fractures and those cracks sometimes explode,” McDowell said. “I think that’s what you saw today. I’m not an engineer, but typically, too much tape on the grill will get them hot and then too cold.
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