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Newsweek
5 hours ago
- Newsweek
Harvick Sends Strong Message to NASCAR Drivers After Stewart Friesen Crash
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Former NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick has a strong message for young NASCAR drivers after Truck Series driver Stewart Friesen's horrific crash during the Super DIRTcar Series race at Autodrome Drummond in Quebec. Friesen was seen battling multiple cars into Turn 3, when he suddenly swerved towards the ARMCO barrier and crashed at high speed. The impact toppled his car multiple times. Making matters worse, the car burst into flames as it was flung back onto the racetrack, where trailing cars collided with the wreckage. Stewart Friesen was involved in a major wreck during his Dirt Modified race at Autodrome Drummond. The latest update confirms that he has been helped from his car and is being transported for further evaluation. 🙏Keeping Friesen in our — Taylor Kitchen (@_TaylorKitchen_) July 29, 2025 The safety crew got him out of the car and rushed him to a local hospital for further evaluation. Friesen suffered a fractured right leg and a broken pelvis. Although he is recovering, he has been moved to a hospital in New York, where he will undergo multiple surgeries. Harvick has used Friesen's crash as an example, highlighting the lack of safety in short-track series, and cautioning young drivers to drive responsibly, regardless of the safety layers NASCAR has in place. He said on Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour podcast: Former NASCAR Cup Series driver, Kevin Harvick speaks at the Busch Light activation on the midway prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2025 in Daytona Beach,... Former NASCAR Cup Series driver, Kevin Harvick speaks at the Busch Light activation on the midway prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2025 in Daytona Beach, Florida. More"This is just an absolutely horrifying wreck right here. You see him just hit the end of that wall and then hit by cars and fires. Just glad that he's not in worse condition than he is. It was a tough couple weeks for dirt racing with everything that happened at Eldora with the sprint cars. And then you have Friesen's wreck right here. So glad everybody's still here. "These series don't have the investigations and things, and that's one thing NASCAR does a really good job at, is making sure they understand each wreck. Making sure that they look at all the equipment. They hold the people accountable to wear their equipment right, to get their headrests right. That doesn't happen in the short track world. Some of the stuff you see is pretty scary. "And that's one thing I stress to all of our young guys and just people in general that just get a little lax about it from the safety side. You're not preparing for every time you get in. You're preparing for that moment like we just saw with Stewart Friesen. "So it's super important that all that stuff is right and you evolve with the safety aspect of it. That's the difference between weekly racing and Cup, Xfinity, Truck racing ... that NASCAR holds you accountable. Not so much the case on stuff like this."
Newsweek
5 hours ago
- Newsweek
NASCAR's Daniel Suarez Has One Way to go After Trackhouse Split
Following the announcement by Trackhouse Racing that it was parting ways with NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suarez after the 2025 season, The Athletic's reporter Jordan Bianchi has revealed the most viable option left for the Mexican driver in 2026. The number of full-time seats in the Cup Series campaign is nearly full next year, leaving no room for Suarez. Bianchi admits that it would be risky for Suarez to enter free agency next year. Instead, it would make more sense if he raced in the Xfinity Series for a year and returned to the Cup Series in 2027. He wrote: "Unfortunately for Suarez, he's entering free agency at a time when not a lot of viable options exist. Nearly all 36 full-time seats are already taken for next season. This is why many within the industry thought Suárez's best opportunity to reset his career was to take a ride in NASCAR's second-tier Xfinity Series, likely with Kaulig Racing or JR Motorsports, then re-enter free agency a year from now in what is anticipated to be a much more robust market." Suarez, however, is inclined to remain in the Cup Series and likely sees a potential opportunity opening up in the future. While Spire Motorsports could be one option, according to Bianchi, it remains to be seen if it would be willing to hire Suarez in place of Justin Haley. Daniel Suarez, driver of the #99 Choice Privileges Chevrolet, looks on in his car during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol at Iowa Speedway on August 02, 2025 in... Daniel Suarez, driver of the #99 Choice Privileges Chevrolet, looks on in his car during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol at Iowa Speedway on August 02, 2025 in Newton, Iowa. MoreSuarez joined Trackhouse in 2021 and has since won two Cup Series races. Being friends with the Trackhouse team owner, Justin Marks, the two mutually decided it was time to close this chapter. Fortunately for Suarez, Marks revealed that he would help him find the next opportunity in NASCAR. Opening up about going their separate ways, Marks said: "Look, Daniel's been a huge part of this company for four and a half years now and when we sat down and mapped out our three-year and our five-year plan and the sponsorships and everything that we're trying to accomplish over the next five years of the company, we just got to a point where we felt like that relationship had beared a lot of fruit for us, but it just was time to move on. "So, as we grow and as the team grows, obviously, we have to identify different opportunities. Look, Daniel has been a huge part of this company and a great friend of mine. We met last night, me and him in the hotel for an hour down in the lobby and we talked about our time together, everything that we've accomplished together and him and I are in a really good place. "It's just this isn't a sport where you do the same thing forever and as we grow, we just felt like it was time to wrap up that relationship and work to try to help him to find the next opportunity, but continue to grow as a company [is] what we're trying to accomplish."
Newsweek
5 hours ago
- Newsweek
NASCAR's Next Gen Car Comes Under Fire From Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Former NASCAR driver and team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. has targeted the sport's Next Gen car for having a diffuser, low-profile tires, and brakes that barely fade. The argument is that the components in question don't make the Next Gen car a proper stock car, as per Dale Jr. The low-profile tires and a diffuser give the Next Gen car a more track-focused feel than a conventional stock car that once ruled NASCAR. Dale Jr. suggested on his Dale Jr. Download podcast that he would remove the diffuser and change the sidewall of the tire so drivers can get a feel of the amount of grip they have left. He also feels that the brakes, which hardly fade in the short zones, are a factor that interferes with race strategy. He said: "Would I have ever built a NASCAR stock car that had a diffuser? No. I wouldn't have put a low-profile tire on it and changed the sidewall so drivers can't feel the tire, don't know where the limited grip is, and can't trust it. "But it's all here. It's here. It's bought and paid for. There's no change coming. So, if you know that nothing's going to change, they ain't taking the diffuser off. They're not changing the tire, they're not changing the brakes. And if you know that, then what good is it to sit here on this podcast and **** about it?" Hall of Famer and JR Motorsports team owner, Dale Earnhardt Jr. looks on in the garage area during practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 15, 2025 in... Hall of Famer and JR Motorsports team owner, Dale Earnhardt Jr. looks on in the garage area during practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 15, 2025 in Daytona Beach, Florida. MoreIntroduced in 2022, the Next Gen car has been called out by several NASCAR drivers, such as Kyle Larson, who believes that the car has limited his winning potential. Larson claimed that he would have secured 50 Cup Series wins if he were still driving the 2021 Gen 6 Hendrick Motorsports car. Newsweek Sports reported his comments: "I think if we would still have the 2021 car, I would have about 50 Cup wins right now. I think switching to this car has limited us from winning." NASCAR star Denny Hamlin thinks that the Next Gen car didn't receive adequate testing for it to suit different kinds of tracks. Revealing that the car wasn't ready for launch in 2022, he said: "They just didn't do enough testing. The car wasn't ready. We had to delay it one year, we had the COVID thing — it was not thought out enough. ... We didn't have multiple racecars on the racetrack testing this car until two months before the very first race. And at that moment is when we all realized holy sh*t, you cannot pass. It was really, really bad. "Now, we did some things. We were going to run 500 horsepower. That was the original plan is to run 500 horsepower in this thing. But it was so horrible that we got them talked into 670."
