NASCAR Now Tries Cooling The Cup Cars Down

Remember when NASCAR was trying to limit how long a Sprint Cup Series car can stay in a draft before overheating?  They were trying to eliminate tandem drafting in the restrictor plate races and force drivers to have to pull out from the draft of a single partner so they couldn't keep it up.

Turns out that during the Budweiser Shootout last weekend, teams were encountering overheating problems in the race.  To the point that they were at their red line tolerances for the entirety of the event, and that was a partial field.
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I suspected that this would happen.  And I worried that if a car is trapped in the pack, they will overheat, whether they like it or not.

Now NASCAR is looking to help with the overheating problem now that they have defeated the tandem drafting monster by increasing the pressure relief valve setting to 28 psi, up from the 25 psi they had it set at prior to Wednesday.

The higher temps expected in the forecast, they say this soothes some crew chief nerves.

But let's hope that this is resolved before the big race on Sunday.  I'd be frustrated if a NASCAR mandated change causes teams to lose engines.  Plus it would thin out the competition field and that would take the fun out of it... that is, if the "big one" doesn't do it first.

[speedtv.com: nascar-continues-to-tweak-cars]