Denny Hamlin has called out both NASCAR and FOX after they each appeared to miss at least one major incident in Sunday's race at Watkins Glen.
The Joe Gibbs Racing star highlighted the number of track workers who have been cut from their roles to save money, assigning partial blame to that approach.
The missed incident which caught the most attention was Cody Ware's wreck with nine laps to go, with an incidental overhead of his damaged car limping around the track the first time TV viewers became aware of it.
The severity of the wreck – bouncing off the barriers at high speed and spinning to a stop on the track – appeared to be the sort of thing which would normally prompt an immediate yellow.
Perhaps more concerning, some pictures posted by fans at the track appear to show that Ware's car damaged the ARMCO barrier on impact, bending a section of it back at a severe angle.
Most believed that the incident and damage to the barrier should've prompted a caution, but the race was allowed to run green through to the end.
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Hamlin: NASCAR has to get better with that
Speaking on his Actions Detrimental podcast this week, Hamlin said: “I mean [TV coverage] didn’t follow a few wrecks that happened, that’s for sure. But NASCAR has to get better with that. Like I’ve seen their control center at their production studio. There’s absolutely no excuse… you have cameras pointing in every direction of this racetrack.
“For you not to see Cody Ware destroyed in that final corner… holy cow, man. They need to say something about that. Not just, ‘We’ll look at it. We’re always looking to improve'. That's old news.
“Take some accountability on this one. This was not acceptable.”
Hamlin calls for better track staffing
He continued: “NASCAR has these monitors and they have cameras pointing pretty much at every, it should be every corner. I know I’ve seen it on ovals, they’ve got every corner and every angle kind of (set). Because they just don’t have the track workers that they used to have, because they’ve cut. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.
"And so there’s these 16 monitors, it could be 24, 36. It’s a lot. It’s a lot of monitors looking at the racetrack from all these different things to see things that necessarily are not being shown on TV.
“Somewhere there has to be multiple (officials), it can’t be one person. I’m sorry, you can’t look at 24 monitors at one time. There has to be multiple people looking for dramatic events that’s going on that could be a hazard. Call it in. And then it’s got to get called to the next guy and then to the next guy. But you can’t just like, ‘Oh, we didn’t see that'. No.”
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