And it begins..... Cars on the track today.

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Here's a schedule of some of the weekends events.....



Friday, Feb. 11

2 p.m. -- ARCA qualifying

5 - 5:45 p.m. -- Practice for Budweiser Shootout cars only (Speed Channel)

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. -- Final practice for Budweiser Shootout cars only (Speed Channel)

8:30 p.m. -- Budwesier Shootout Selection Show (where drivers draw starting order --- Speed Channel)



Saturday, Feb. 12

10 - 10:45 a.m. -- Final ARCA Practice

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. -- Sprint Cup practice (Speed Channel)

2 - 3:45 p.m. -- Sprint Cup practice (Speed Channel)

4:30 p.m. -- ARCA race (Speed Channel)

8:10 p.m. -- Budwesier Shootout (FOX)



Sunday, Feb. 13

1:05 p.m. -- Sprint Cup qualifying (FOX)
 
Anyone know the over/under on the cautions during tomorrows ARCA race @ Daytona?

Also, is Danica running in that race?
 
The back of Keselowski's car..... LOL

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dpkimmel2001 said:
Anyone know the over/under on the cautions during tomorrows ARCA race @ Daytona?

Also, is Danica running in that race?
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6 cautions.

No Danica, but Milka Duno is in it. I have a feeling Milka Duno and Maryeve Dufault will be the causes of at least two big ones.
 
39 cars in the books in ARCA qualifying at Daytona. Ty Dillon, racing for Richard Childress Racing in the entire ARCA Racing Series season and winner of the last two ARCA races (Kansas and Rockingham last season) is picking up where he left off, sitting on the provisional pole in Daytona right now.
 
I wonder if these practice sessions will be wild? Guys haven't been on track in packs so it might get a little tense.
 
Remember the days when bump drafting in the turn was a big no no. Now they can knock the crap out of eachother all the way around.
 
Jr. 199.862 mph in the first practice. Three driver in all above 199 mph. I think I can see those restrictor plates shrinking already.
 
NASCAR on the speeds: "We'll continue to monitor the practice speeds again tomorrow and see how things settle out"

Translation..... "We are currently in the process of reducing the restrictor plate size"

From a Dustin Long column an interesting take though from some of the drivers.....

Some drivers call for NASCAR to increase restrictor-plate size even after cars top 200 mph

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (who drew the pole for the Shootout) and teammate Jimmie Johnson both say NASCAR should INCREASE not decrease the plate.


NASCAR had not announced a decision as of late Friday night.


Johnson told me that he heard from drivers at the December Goodyear test (Johnson didn't run there) that with a larger restrictor plate there that drivers had problems getting into the two-car packs that create this extra speed. Dale Jr was there. When I told him what Johnson said, Dale Jr. agreed.


"If you slow the cars down, you make this (two-car hookup) is easy,'' Dale Jr. said. "When the cars are just a little bit faster, we get into the corner and spin each other out. We're almost at the position at Talladega. It's way easier to do it here than it is in Talladega because of the speed. At Talladega, we almost wreck each other and as I did to (Jeff) Burton last year, you can wreck each other by bump-drafting in the corner. The plate is so small here that it's way easy. It's so easy.


"In December, we were testing with more plate (30/32 of an inch) and we tried to do that, we were trying to do that bumpdraft (stuff) and it wouldn't work in the corner. We would get into the corner and almost wrecked. Just that a little bit. If you slow it down, it's not going to stop it (two-car speeds over 200 mph).


"If they slow us down, we'll just be able to do this better and it possibly could come a situation where three or four cars could do it together and we'll get back to 205.''


As for Saturday night's race, Dale Jr. said the key will be running second on the last lap so you can make a slingshot pass off of turn 4.


"As soon as you pull out (from behind) his car is going to do 185 mph,'' Dale Jr. said. "That's as fast as this car can go with that plate. When you're in second, whenever you want to pass the guy, you can do it in 50 yards, just pull out and he just stops. It just kills his car. It's definitely best to be running second in a little two-car car lock off of turn 4 and do it somewhere between there and the flagstand. It's the same thing that they were doing at Talladega last year, Harvick and those guys.''
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Personally, I don't really care if the reduce them or not. Whatever they do, I just hope that it creates exciting racing. Boy, what a difference a couple weeks make. These guys bring some of their best stuff down to Daytona for the Bud Shootout and the speeds increased tremendously over what they were running in their tire tests. I wonder what they'd be running with their 500 car? :eek:
 
mike honcho said:
Looks like it's going to be alot of 2 car team draft racing.
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At least they can pull away from each other, that is a good thing. Running around in 30 car packs for 200 laps isn't racing IMO. The 2 car draft will create a lot of strategy amongest teams.
 
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