Comments on: Cautions: A Historical Downward Trend Over the Last Six Years

By: The Reason for Decreasing Cautions »

The Reason for Decreasing Cautions » — Sat, 26 May 2012 23:34:01 +0000

[...] This was the first year that most people noticed a decrease in the number of cautions, but (as I’ve pointed out), 2012 is merely the latest in a six-year trend of decreasing cautions. The same downward trend [...]

By: The Six-Year Downward Caution Trend: In the Nationwide Series, too! »

The Six-Year Downward Caution Trend: In the Nationwide Series, too! » — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:23:18 +0000

[...] Consipracies Add comments May 242012 Just out of curiosity, I decided to do a similar analysis on the Nationwide Series caution record as I did on the Cup record. My intent was that if there [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:16:00 +0000

NASCAR and Goodyear do not like the drivers belittling the tires after a race in which adhesion lessens significantly between pit stops. Therefore all tires have become hockey pucks. Problem solved…for Goodyear. NASCAR is apathetic and will not lend enough guidance to rectify the situation.

By: Sandeep Banerjee

Sandeep Banerjee — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:22:12 +0000

Here are some reasons I could think of.

1. The 2005 Coke 600 had a record 22 cautions due to the track deciding to do a surprise ‘levigation’ on the surface which was popping Goodyears left and right, so that spiked the 2005 season’s caution average.

2. Ever-increasing number of downforce tracks, where cars are more spread out and less likely to make contact.

3. Ever-decreasing number of short tracks, where contact and cautions were higher.

4. The stability of the COT. It generates enormous sideforce and is incredibly stable ever since it was introduced. Hard to turn but stable. We’ve seen drivers be able to make saves that would’ve easily been 360° spins with the pre-COT car.

5. The increasing number of start-n-park cars. These were usually bad drivers in inferior cars that you could usually count on to spin out or have a mechanical failure during the race and bring out a caution. Well, now they park right after the green so you’ve got only quality drivers and cars circulating the track that rarely make mistakes or fail.

That’s about all I can think of for now.