Denny Hamlin: NASCAR appeals hearing \u2018not a fair fight\u2019 <\/a><\/p>\nThat includes Cody Ware crashing with nine laps to go, severely damaging both his car, and the fencing in Turns 6 and 7, which most in the industry believed warranted a caution.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean they didn\u2019t follow a few wrecks that happened, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Hamlin said on Actions Detrimental. \u201cBut NASCAR has to get better with that. Like I\u2019ve seen their control center at their production studio. There\u2019s absolutely no excuse\u2026 you have cameras pointing in every direction of this racetrack.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor you not to see Cody Ware destroyed in that final corner\u2026 holy cow, man. They need to say something about that. Not just, \u2018We\u2019ll look at it. We\u2019re always looking to improve.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Because NASCAR has cut numerous officials and replaced them with a series of cameras across most races, there are some blind spots that seem to cause crashes not getting picked up by either the television partner or race control.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s becoming a theme.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake some accountability on this one,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cThis was not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That means NASCAR and FOX in this case.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s on both of them. It\u2019s on both of them,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a director somewhere in there in FOX\u2019s production studio that\u2019s looking at all the cameras. Surely there\u2019s got to be someone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again, Hamlin pointed to the lack of track stewards compared to previous years, and a correlation in incidents that just don\u2019t get picked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cNASCAR has these monitors and they have cameras pointing pretty much at every, it should be every corner,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cI know I\u2019ve seen it on ovals, they\u2019ve got every corner and every angle kind of (set). Because they just don\u2019t have the track workers that they used to have, because they\u2019ve cut. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. And so there\u2019s these 16 monitors, it could be 24, 36. It\u2019s a lot. It\u2019s a lot of monitors looking at the racetrack from all these different things to see things that necessarily are not being shown on TV.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSomewhere there has to be multiple (officials), it can\u2019t be one person. I\u2019m sorry, you can\u2019t look at 24 monitors at one time. There has to be multiple people looking for dramatic events that\u2019s going on that could be a hazard. Call it in. And then it\u2019s got to get called to the next guy and then to the next guy. But you can\u2019t just like, \u2018Oh, we didn\u2019t see that.\u2019 No.\u201d<\/p>\n
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