Nascar says Talladega crashes may prompt harsher penalties for aggression?

Johnny nailed it. Carl wasn't in a box, he just blew it.

Carl's line about having a choice to wreck or come in 4th is exactly right. Brad was faster and deserved to win. Carl should have taken 4th instead of wrecking and endangering so many people.

The announcers love to say "4 wide by himself" like it's a good thing to make dangerous stupid sweeping moves. Carl wont be doing that again. The problem will solve itself in due time. Too many have been profiting from these kinds of moves at the expense of those who backoff, move or check up.

Aggression is not the cause of the wrecks. Most are just a product of that type of racing. The restrictor plate and the yellow line both make the racing safer overall. If you eliminated the yellow line rule, there would just be more huge crashes. If you took the plates off the car, there wouldn't be close packs of cars but when there were crashes, they would be nasty and cars would end up in the spectator areas. I think they will slow the cars down a touch and close the front rows.

How are they going to determine what was "aggressive" and what wasn't in a 20-car pack, running side by side, bumper to bumper, and within the limits they themselves set? Was he moving out of line to block? Taking advantage of the run gained by that car coming up? Getting a run on the car in front of him? What's aggressive, and what's not, when it comes to plate racing? It may be the most exciting form of racing in NASCAR, but I get tired of my driver not even making it to the first pit stop before the Big One ruins his day, because somebody made the wrong move too early, wrecking 14 other cars, as well.

Can't wait for Saturday!

This is a tough cookie to crumble.

Yes, I feel that the plate racing does put the drivers at a bigger risk. But I also hate to see a race with the leader winning by 13 laps.

There has to be compromise somewhere. Hopefully it can be found before someone gets seriously injured, maimed or killed.

I have said, since the first thought of the restrictor plate, Lower the compression to 8.5:1, and run a 390cfm 2bbl carb, NO PLATE, lets see what they can do with that. If my brain still works correct, that should slow them down about 20-25 mph.

Thik about it NASCAR.

Yea Keslowski had the position and Edwards came down to block. What happened after is what you'd expect to happen going 190 mph. Just glad Ryan Newman didn't get hurt.

you won't be able to penalize Brad for what handed off. It replaced into strictly racing and Nascar knows it. All he did replaced into carry his line whilst Carl tried to dam him on the low facet yet Brad replaced into already there and it did no longer artwork and Carl paid the fee. some followers paid a cost additionally yet i'm extremely happy that no person replaced into injury worse than what they have been. From what I understand there remains one guy or woman interior the scientific institution, yet their situation is sweet.

It's going to be hard to monitor. As was already said above they will be weaving back and forth and that means NASCAR will have to determine was a driver weaving because he needed to move out from behind a car so he can get fresh air and cool his car off OR was he weaving to keep the car behind him from making a move.

"""And behold ... a new rule was born which NASCAR could enforce arbitrarily"""

Only by the the grace of God or sheer luck was someone not killed Sunday. That deliberate taking out of Carl Edwards showed poor sportsmanship and stupidity. The "winner" should have been relegated to 25th place and put on probation for all races for the remainder of the year. A rookie taking out a racer running for points on a turn deserves the strictest punishment NASCAR can give. Brad Keslowski is a loser in my book.

What they need to crack down on is the weaving back and forth in the pack. Matt Kenseth paid the price for that in Saturday's race, and Kyle Busch triggered a big crash doing the same thing on Sunday. They always say that they will enforce rules on aggressive driving, but we never see it. And it's a total cop-out to say that the double line rule caused Carl to crash. Carl moved up to block, Brad had the position, and Carl came back down on him. The reason Carl crashed is because of Carl.

It's not NASCAR's rules that are causing the crashes, it's the drivers making aggressive moves that are causing crashes.