“Teams Aren’t Saving Any Money”: NASCAR Veteran Goes Against Racing Community to Defend Drivers in Heated Superspeedway Debate

At what point did NASCAR go from racing full-throttle at Superspeedways to considering fuel-saving and driving below the minimum speed to get to the next stage of the race? Veteran drivers Kenny Wallace and Ken Schrader have presented an honest and straightforward breakdown of NASCAR’s talk of the hour: the grid’s fuel-conserving strategy at the YellaWood 500 at Talladega. But why do teams care about fuel saving when the race runs a distance of 500 miles?