For years, particularly because the debut of the Gen 7 automotive in 2022, there’s been a contingent of NASCAR followers and a few drivers who recommend the Xfinity Sequence produces higher racing than its huge brother within the Cup Sequence. The inspiration of this argument is predicated on the on-track motion, and extra particularly, the flexibility to cross.
Xfinity Sequence driver Austin Hill lately made this declare earlier than Darlington, every week after the insanity at Martinsville.
“I stand strongly on the facet of, for no matter cause, when the Xfinity Sequence goes to Martinsville, we simply lose our minds,” Hill stated to reporters. “However all over the place else we’re the very best racing in NASCAR. I strongly stand behind that that we’re the very best sequence in NASCAR.”
NASCAR Cup Sequence race at Bristol Motor Speedway.Randy Sartin-Imagn Photographs
On Wednesday, Jamie McMurray, who’s an analyst for Fox and The CW, appeared on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and talked in regards to the weekend’s races at Bristol and addressed the controversy.
“This automotive, the Gen 7 automotive, has struggled a little bit extra on the brief tracks, however truthfully after I watched the Xfinity race, I do know that everybody needs to say, ‘Properly, these automobiles are means higher.’ I do not agree with that,” McMurray stated. “And I say that as a result of I really feel like if the Cup groups, with their assets, had Xfinity automobiles, I do not assume it could be considerably totally different.
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“You already know a part of what makes Xfinity totally different is that there is a little extra discrepancy in funding and groups from the highest 10 or 12 to the subsequent 12 or 15 to the again 12 or 15. And so when somebody goes to the again – if (Justin) Allgaier spins on pit highway or speeds on pit highway and goes to the again, yeah, he’s gonna have the ability to drive up by there as a result of there’s extra discrepancy within the automobiles.
“The place whenever you get to the Cup Sequence, I imply, that sequence simply retains getting more durable. You even go to love the twenty fifth, the thirty fifth place guys, they’re nonetheless fairly quick. They’re shut. They’re fairly near the entrance. So in fact it is gonna be arduous to cross as a result of everybody’s the same velocity.”
Whereas the Cup Sequence is off this week, the Xfinity Sequence returns to Rockingham. Race protection on The CW begins at 4 p.m. ET.
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