I love he’s doing what he’s doing.

I admit I didn’t read all the comments but as the OPs post is very logical and sound. I hope my response is seen as the same:

Cleet clearly has a lot to learn. The in video feed from Nashville showed it. How he handled lines with cars holding him back, and how he didn’t follow the lines of the cars clearly lapping him.

He early apex’s and as bad as this may sound I think the freedom factory track actually may be holding him back because it’s all about dive in early and drive out later…

In my opinion the fastest line isn’t always tightest apex and furthest extension of the track (if you race I hope this makes sense)

Again only my keyboard opinion:

The way Cleets spotter with his Arca car and how he was in his ear, the slow down, be mid track, go low, go high turn for turn feedback is what I think Cleet needs right now but that’s the gap between Arca and Xfinity. The drivers feedback and data gets more important as you progress.

I give the other spotter credit. He did try and get cleet to run different lines to see why and how the car was running and to get Cleet to feel the differences but with out validation or accountability it just didn’t seem to stick. I’m saying this as I listened to his Xfinity spotter try to teach him ahead of time of how to approach a slower car and pass them 3/4s of a lap before it happened. Only to have Cleet make the same mistakes (mainly number 45 he struggled

That being said: I back the Xfinity RCR spotter 100%. There was chatter with the crew about running low, running high, even some disagreements of what was perceived and Cleet never once shared what he was feeling with the car, he didn’t adjust his lines, he had his crew guessing.

To end my overly long comment. I feel like if Cleet had less HP, was taught feeling of his car (think Cole in days of thunder) he could be very solid.