Sad News: Denny Hamlin Has Officially announced departing from NASCAR and Reason Why…..
“I hope girls make it in this sport. There’s nothing wrong with her,” Suarez said. “What is wrong is NASCAR.
You cannot allow somebody with no experience to run in the Cup Series. Plain and simple. … This is not a so slow place. I hit her and I was running 100 miles an hour, slowing down already.”
Legge is approved in Cup for road courses and tracks that are one mile and shorter.
This is typically NASCAR’s beginning approval classification for a driver who has at least some oval experience in another series but not much stock car experience.
NASCAR approved Helio Castroneves for the Daytona 500 based on his significant INDYCAR resume, including four Indy 500 victories.
He also had some familiarity with Daytona in the Rolex 24 and in the International Race of Champions Series a couple of decades ago.
That particular series pitted drivers from various forms of motorsports into equally prepared stock cars.
NASCAR didn’t approve veteran racer Mike Wallace for the Daytona 500 because it had been several years since he had done any significant amount of racing. It set up a plan for him to race at other tracks to be approved for Daytona next year.
What more should NASCAR want in order to approve her for a short track (although arguably the short tracks can sometimes be more difficult than the faster tracks)? Would you say she needs to do a certain number of ovals in the trucks and Xfinity before Cup? Her only oval stock-car race was the 2018 Xfinity race at Richmond.
