This Ridiculous Rule Is Being Introducing To The Nascar Truck Series For 2016

There will be a yellow flag caution every 20 minutes during Nascar Truck series races in 2016 after the announcement of a silly new rule

Jack Leslie

20 Jan 2016

This Ridiculous Rule Is Being Introducing To The Nascar Truck Series For 2016

Nascar may call it the “most unique” change for the 2016 season, but we think the new ‘Caution Clock’ rule being introduced to the Trucks series this year is, quite frankly, absurd.

The Camping World Truck Series looks set to be shaken up this year with caution periods every 20 minutes after the start of a green flag run, if yellow flags fail to emerge before then.

The format will be different at several races. It will not be used at the Eldora Speedway and will be turned off with 20 laps remaining, except for events at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and Pocono Raceway where it will be stopped with 10 laps to go.

The Caution Clock will begin at the race start and will be reset at each green flag run. Steve O’Donnell, Nascar executive vice president, believes it will “break up” the races and “add strategy”.

But while it will give all drivers and teams the chance to pit and make car adjustments, doing so in such an artificial way will likely be tedious for the fans, predictable and could hinder the on-track action as well.

The Truck championship is the third tier in the national Nascar championships, below the Xfinity series and the top level Sprint Cup. The Caution Clock makes a slight nod to the Trucks’ series past, where shorter races were broken up by a half-time break.

What do you think of the new Caution Clock rule? Let us know in the comments!

Comments

“If there is no hazard, we will make one every 20 minutes”

Do they even ever race for 20 minutes without a yellow flag?

Silly

I’m sorry but this almost makes some f1 decisions look logical!

That what I was thinking

Instead of just waving the flag they should rig each of the trucks so that they can cause… lets call it “controlled catastrophic failure” for an unlucky driver. Everyone knows that people only watch for the wrecks anyways. :P

and fans will get the change to vote on which driver will catastrophically fail, like Formula E lets you vote on who gets the battery bump… ahaha absurd!

You might as well get all the drivers lined up and give out extra points to the one with the best haircut. This sort of rubbish has no place in motorsport.. This is scripted reality TV, not car racing.
I thought “The Chase” was silly but this is on a whole new level.

In 1999, Don Panoz said: “Enough with stupid rules, my racing series will be for the fans.” We had the ALMS and, now, the USSC (the best GT racing in the world) to keep us entertained. I will preach the gospel of endurance racing for as long as I live.

The people who make this rules are not car guys.

Such a stupid rule. Makes no sense whatsoever, and is completely pointless. And you’re right about it being tedious for fans. I don’t like NASCAR because I want to watch land barges sit behind a Camaro for five minutes every twenty minutes. I like NASCAR because I want to watch land barges go stupidly fast around an oval with as few interruptions as possible.