Chase Elliott takes wait-and-see approach to new bumper package
Chase Elliott discusses the new front bumper package making its debut at North Wilkesboro and how it could affect contact and restart stack-ups.
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Zach Albert, nascar.com.
Chase, there's a new front bumper package in place on the Cup side this weekend, that's designed to have a little bit more give to it, on contact.
And d- do you have any anticipation of, like, how you'll manage that or how it'll react, or is it just gonna be kinda wait and see once you get out there?
Yeah, I, I think probably a, a wait and see situation.
I mean, you know, they've definitely been They're, they're pretty stout, you know.
I mean, the, the I had to remind myself, you know, last, or a couple weeks ago at Chicago running the, you know, running the, the Saturday race just how fragile those cars are and how easy it used to be to, you know, destroy a front bumper, like, on a restart stack or even just hitting somebody too hard trying to give them a shove.
So I, I remember going into that race thinking, "Ah, you know, I need to not just run over somebody like we can on Sunday."
And, it's crazy, like, how hard you can hit someone, on a restart or bump drafting at the Speedways.
Atlanta, great example of that.
I mean, we are just You're running over the person in front of you.
You would think it would destroy your car, but, yeah, it doesn't.
You just shoot them.
The harder you hit them on, on a draft, track like that, the further you push them out.
So I'm not sure, you know I think the margin was so far down the road of just durable and really strong.
I'm not sure how far you have to detune that to, you know, make a difference, but we'll, you know, we'll see.
