{"id":175679,"date":"2025-08-26T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:38:10","slug":"nascar-race-control-radio-revealed-officials-fuming-at-joey-logano-for-bringing-out-caution-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175679\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR race control radio revealed officials fuming at Joey Logano for bringing out caution at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/strong><\/a> has some new communications tech in play and it might need some tweaking after inadvertent audio was picked up that showed race officials upset with Joey Logano<\/strong> for bringing out a caution flag at Daytona. Bubba Wallace<\/strong>\u2018s spotter, Freddie Kraft<\/strong>, revealed the snafu on the Door Bumper Clear<\/a> podcast on Monday.<\/p>\n

Essentially, in an effort to improve communications with teams after earlier issues in the season with caution flags, NASCAR introduced some new tech. It works exceptionally well, apparently.<\/p>\n

And so a string of profanities directed at Logano when he spun with fewer than 40 laps remaining was caught by multiple teams. Kraft explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have a new device that we use to scan race control for the spotters,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it is clear as day. It sounds like (race control\u2019s) Jusan (Hamilton)<\/strong> is sitting next to you talking to you. It\u2019s great. The other officials don\u2019t have it, like on the racetrack, whoever\u2019s on pit road or some of the clean-up trucks, they don\u2019t have the same thing, so it sounds like your normal radio. But like when it\u2019s Jusan on the same system that you\u2019re on, it sounds amazing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem with it is you can also hear, it\u2019s so good that you can also hear some of the stuff that\u2019s going on behind Jusan. And when Logano spun and he kind of drove back up onto the racetrack you could hear some people in the background that were not very happy with him. And used some choice words I can\u2019t repeat because we have sensors on these shows sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR, like many, would prefer fewer cautions. It\u2019s better for the product and keeps things flowing smoothly.<\/p>\n

Daytona actually didn\u2019t have all that many cautions late, but Logano\u2019s was a key one. He spun from the lead and wound up in the infield grass.<\/p>\n

Kraft went on to explain more about the new NASCAR tech, breaking down the problem it was supposed to solve and how it might need some tweaking going forward. He continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might have to retool that so we can\u2019t hear everything in that room. But it was funny to hear,\u201d he said, before describing the new product. \u201cI wish I could tell you the name of it. It\u2019s just like a belt pack that you guys use on pit road, but now it\u2019s like an intercom system I think. I haven\u2019t used it yet because I\u2019m superstitious and we had it at Indy and I didn\u2019t use it at Indy and we won. So the other night I didn\u2019t use it because I thought maybe we would win again. Just wrecked the whole field. So I haven\u2019t used it, but it gets rave reviews from the spotters of how clear it is, the tower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kraft explained that NASCAR has sometimes had issues communicating caution flags clearly to the teams. That\u2019s an obvious safety concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cNASCAR issues us a digital radio at the beginning of the year that has race control in it that we\u2019re supposed to use,\u201d Kraft said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve had issues hearing caution flags. I don\u2019t know what it is, when they hit the button and they key up to say, \u2018put it out,\u2019 something gets overlapped where you don\u2019t hear \u2018put it out.\u2019 So the yellow\u2019s out and you don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve been trying to come up with something different to fix that and this is the next step in that process. But it\u2019s clear as day and maybe it\u2019s a little too clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has some new communications tech in play and it might need some tweaking after inadvertent audio was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-175679","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\/115092278730942683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175679","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=175679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}