With a wild race at Talladega Superspeedway to dissect, analysts Steve Letarte and Parker Kligerman join the latest NASCAR on NBC podcast to offer their unique insights.
Letarte makes a case that aero development might be contributing to three cars getting airborne Sunday at the 2.66-mile track, noting that teams heavily focus on the undersides of their cars to find speed. The former Sprint Cup crew chief also explains why the rash of steering wheel problems will be a teachable moment for younger racers and what makes Talladega winner Brad Keselowski so good in the draft.
Kligerman will return to the Camping World Truck Series this weekend at Kansas Speedway and details the recent developments of his underdog team, which remains second in points despite having only two full-time employees.
The former Talladega winner also describes how drivers wrestle with the levels of acceptable risk at Talladega and why all of the focus on understanding side-drafting and aerodynamics has made drivers and teams so good, it raises the chances of wreckfests such as Sunday.
Other topics covered by Kligerman:
–Comparing and contrasting the restrictor-plate methods of Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR’s current draft kings.
–How the lower downforce rules package might affect racing this weekend at Kansas Speedway.
–The NASCAR America analyst’s tricks for wheeling a driving simulator while talking live on national TV (hint: It helps to have a few thousand hours behind the wheel and several producers as spotters).
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