{"id":528986,"date":"2026-03-11T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528986\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:39:13","slug":"freddie-kraft-sounds-off-on-single-aspect-of-joint-nascar-indycar-phoenix-weekend-that-needs-major-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528986\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Kraft sounds off on single aspect of joint NASCAR, IndyCar Phoenix weekend that needs major improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freddie Kraft sounded off on one issue with the joint weekend between NASCAR and IndyCar at Phoenix this past weekend. On the Door Bumper Clear podcast<\/a>, the spotter for Bubba Wallace shared the one thing that he didn\u2019t like about the joint effort with the two racing organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not even allowed to go in their garage, or they\u2019re not allowed to come in our garage,\u201d Freddie Kraft said. It was like Fort Knox. Don\u2019t dare go in either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it was NASCAR side, really, but I don\u2019t know. \u2026I would think we should be inviting them into our garage, we should be allowed to go in there. That\u2019s the whole point of having these combo weekends. I couldn\u2019t even walk out on pit road. I got a hard card when they were racing, you were not allowed to walk on pit road with a NASCAR hard card. \u2026If you got a credential from that series, it makes sense to me that you should be able to go intermingle with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

IndyCar and NASCAR took over Phoenix Raceway<\/p>\n

In September, it was announced that IndyCar would join NASCAR\u2019s O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series and Cup Series for a crossover weekend at Phoenix in March. IndyCar competed at Phoenix Raceway on Saturday with the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series, while the Cup Series competed on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved when we had the doubleheader with them at Indy, just kind of being right there and going over and hanging out and watching practice in their box and stuff like that,\u201d Ryan Blaney said at the time, per NASCAR.com.<\/a> \u201cIt was cool, and I think it\u2019s going to be fantastic. And I like that IndyCar\u2019s going back to Phoenix. It\u2019s been a while since they\u2019ve run in Phoenix, and I think it\u2019ll put on a really good show.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the IndyCar race on Saturday, Josef Newgarden won and reached the top of the IndyCar standings. In the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series race, Justin Allgaier came out on top to claim his third win at Phoenix Raceway. And in the Cup Series race, Ryan Blaney came in first<\/a> to snap Tyler Reddick\u2018s three-race win streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freddie Kraft sounded off on one issue with the joint weekend between NASCAR and IndyCar at Phoenix this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-528986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}