During the latest episode of “Hauler Talk,” NASCAR vice president of race communications Mike Forde … said NASCAR would consider introducing additional horsepower at 1.5-mile ovals and longer, but that it’s unlikely this season.
“We just felt that you look at the mile-and-a-half races, and I think everyone’s in agreement that it’s the best racing we have, and so let’s not fix what’s not broken,” he said. “We don’t want to hurt something that we all feel is pretty good. I think this is more of a 2027 situation, so what we have for the remainder of the year, we’re going to stick with that. At the end of the season, we’ll look at Darlington, Nashville, Gateway and the short tracks and see how they raced, and how the mile-and-a-halfs raced, too. Because every single year, the teams catch up to the car and fine-tune it, and that affects the racing.”
— NASCAR.com —