{"id":155169,"date":"2025-08-18T07:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155169\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:36:15","slug":"nascar-insider-victory-laps-nascar-next-gen-car-take-after-richmond-gets-roasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155169\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insider victory laps NASCAR Next Gen car take after Richmond, gets roasted"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NASCAR insider had a message for those who took shots at the Next Gen car after seeing an entertaining Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway on Saturday. On The Teardown podcast<\/a>, Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic discussed the Richmond race delivering because of the tire wear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not the kind of guy that likes to say I told you so, but I told you so,\u201d Bianchi said to co-host Jeff Gluck of The Athletic. \u201cI have said this car is the car. There\u2019s only so many more changes you can do with this; you\u2019re not going to wipe it clean, you can\u2019t really do anything to it much more than you have to. Even if you have a little bit more horsepower, there\u2019s still a question of whether it\u2019s going to fix it or not. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have been adamant the solution to better racing with this car, because you\u2019re limited in what you can do, is tire wear. Long live tire wear. Don\u2019t blame me for being right because that is the case. \u2026Tires are the solution to improving the quality of racing. That is it. I may be unfair to place that on Goodyear\u2019s shoulders, but that\u2019s the reality of the situation. \u2026Richmond produced a good race tonight because it has tire wear.\u201d<\/p>\n

11 different drivers had leads in the NASCAR Richmond race<\/p>\n

Gluck didn\u2019t understand why Bianchi was patting himself on the back. \u201cI don\u2019t see why you\u2019re proclaiming this as some genius win for yourself,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s very common that people feel like the tire is a big factor, but it sounds like you\u2019re also doing a total copout by saying you\u2019re not putting it 100 percent on Goodyear and you\u2019re not saying NASCAR is responsible at all for the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans saw Austin Dillon<\/strong> win the Richmond race<\/a>, which was fitting considering he won the race last year but was ruled ineligible to participate in the playoffs after receiving a penalty for aggressive driving. 11 different drivers had leads in the Richmond race, including Bubba Wallace<\/strong>, who had the most laps led with 123. Dillon had 107 laps, and pole winner Ryan Preece<\/strong> had 60. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASCAR insider had a message for those who took shots at the Next Gen car after seeing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-155169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048623885599189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}