{"id":759278,"date":"2026-06-25T02:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/759278\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:23:15","slug":"nascar-instructs-cup-teams-to-remove-bumper-foam-from-short-track-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/759278\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR instructs Cup teams to remove bumper foam from short track races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR has issued a rules bulletin to Cup Series teams in advance of a stretch of races under a mile in which foam is being removed from the front and rear bumpers during those race weekends.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming races these rules apply to are the following:<\/p>\n<p>North Wilkesboro, July 19<br \/>\nRichmond, August 15<br \/>\nBristol, September 19<br \/>\nMartinsville, November 1<\/p>\n<p>The bulletin instructs teams, with instructions for how to do so properly, to remove foam from the front and rear bumpers while also modifying the four front bumper struts accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to remove incentive for drivers to slam into the back of a leading car on these four short tracks without consequence. The contact, if hard enough, will now result in aerodynamic damage to the cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following illustration details the final front bumper assembly state after completion of the required strut modifications.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot-2026-06-24-170457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The complete rules bulletin can be read in its entirety below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has issued a rules bulletin to Cup Series teams in advance of a stretch of races under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,3628,270675,15822,14556,82],"class_list":["post-759278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-instructs-cup-teams-to-remove-bumper-foam-from-short-track-races","tag-naval-base-coronado","tag-san-diego","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759278","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=759278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}