Shane van Gisbergen finished runner-up to Tyler Reddick at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on Sunday (March 1). This broke his streak of five consecutive road course wins.
The intense heat also became a story in Austin, with multiple drivers experiencing cool suit malfunctions. Alex Bowman was unable to complete the race due to a failure, while AJ Allmendinger was seen by medical personnel post-race.
Has the rest of the field caught up to van Gisbergen on road courses? Is wearing a cool suit worth the risk of a potential failure considering the cool suit has an opposite effect when it fails?
Ben Lloyd answers this week’s questions in this episode of NASCAR Mailbox.
Thought I heard Mike Joy uttering the horsepower advantage Reddick had over SVG and everyone else.
When the Toys first arrived in Cup their engines couldn’t match the others so NA$CAR dropped the power of the others. I wonder if they have been given a HP edge because the Toys sure can pull away from the others.
Really? He wins the OReilly and finishes 2nd in Cup and we are talking about him losing his edge? Really? Some of the articles on this site have started to become head scratchers.
They want “clicks”!
Yeah, kinda thought the same thing. But for Reddick’s team absolutely nailing the setup, it would’ve been yet another win for SVG.