{"id":594092,"date":"2026-04-10T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:14:08","slug":"now-you-gotta-knock-the-piss-out-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594092\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Now you gotta knock the piss out of them’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to Bristol Motor Speedway, there\u2019s everything up to 2007 and everything after. The 0.533-mile oval underwent a reconfiguration that year, Speedway Motorsports putting in variable banking which created multiple grooves across the short track.<\/p>\n

The reconfiguration was not a popular one for fans who had come to love the one groove, bump-and-run style of racing at Bristol. While the consensus opinion is that the Old Bristol was better than the New Bristol, Joey Logano isn\u2019t on board with that line of thinking. He explained Thursday that too often in NASCAR<\/a>, the \u201cgood ol\u2019 days\u201d are seen as better than the present day when it\u2019s not always the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a moment where everyone thought that every car needed to be glued to the bottom like the Old Bristol and the only way to pass was to knock them out of the way and that\u2019s what good racing looked like. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the case,\u201d Logano said on the Gluckcast<\/a>. \u201cWe have a habit in our sport of always going back and saying, \u2018Those were the good ol\u2019 days. Those are better than what we got now.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then we do this cycle, it seems we always go down a direction and somehow, the good ol\u2019 days were better. But I\u2019m not so certain they always were. Some things, maybe sure, I don\u2019t know about everything. And then we circle right back to where we were.\u201d <\/p>\n

How would the Next Gen car perform at the Old Bristol?<\/p>\n

Logano did admit that the Old Bristol was \u201cgreat,\u201d though much was different back then. Notably, the Next Gen car didn\u2019t exist which even if around at the Old Bristol, Logano doesn\u2019t believe would have produced an entertaining product. <\/p>\n

\u201cWas the Old Bristol great? Sure, well there\u2019s a lot of variables that were different, too, not just the track. The cars are way different. The bump-and-run is a lot different \u2014 it\u2019s hard for us to get to the back bumper of someone in front of us now with the way the Next Gen car is, or to get there,\u201d Logano said. \u201cIf everyone\u2019s running the same line, you can\u2019t even get to the guy to move him out of the way. Is that better? I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, you gotta knock them out of the way where before you kind of lifted them up because they had that shovel front end, and it didn\u2019t take much for us to move them. Now, you gotta knock the piss out of them to do it. When we say make things back the way they used to be, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s always right.\u201d <\/p>\n

NASCAR is making an effort to improve the current on-track product at Bristol. On Sunday, the 750-horsepower short track package will make its debut at Bristol. Goodyear is also bringing a softer tire to the track, hoping the combination of the two will lead to a better show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to Bristol Motor Speedway, there\u2019s everything up to 2007 and everything after. The 0.533-mile oval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-594092","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\/594092","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=594092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}