In addition to the mismanagement of the damaged vehicle policy and when the pace car rolled upon the lifting of the red flag, NASCAR also seemingly had a big miss in post-race technical inspection on Sunday at Talladega.
At some point during the race, the roof rails on both the RFK Racing cars driven by Brad Keselowski and Chris Buescher fell off. Keselowski finished [second] but was not disqualified for not having the newly mandated safety component on the car.
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NASCAR’s Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer says ‘the bolts (securing the roof rails) were tight’ and that and investigation has opened into how they came off.
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The problem that creates is crew chiefs are now going to be encouraged to engineer their own malfunctions if that doesn’t result in any penalties.
— Sportsnaut —