Charlotte test Monday to develop intermediate track package

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NASCAR announced Monday that it will hold a Sprint Cup test at Charlotte on Monday, Oct. 15. Cars will be on the track from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. ET, and the goal will be research and development on the circuit's mile-and-a-half track rules package.

Before this season, NASCAR and its manufacturer partners implemented the Generation-6 car, which contained a number of stylistic elements designed to strengthen the ties with respective passenger models. The vehicle also featured new performance characteristics including higher rear grip and lighter overall weight, which has translated into record speeds at many tracks.
Next week's test will continue the development of that platform on intermediate tracks. Officials said that aerodynamic enhancements, chassis ride heights and drafting scenarios would be among the components to be tested.
"They have a couple of wickers that they're going to put on the car, and they have a much larger spoiler that they're going to try. I haven't seen everything, but until you go try the stuff on the track, it's hard to give your opinion," Jamie McMurray said last week at Kansas Speedway.
"I like the idea that they're trying, and they're trying some, I would say, off-the-wall ideas and stuff that you would think would never happen in NASCAR. So it will be interesting after that test to see how that works out, and try all the ideas that they have."

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...nt-cup-intermediate-track-test-charlotte.html
 
Hmm sounds interesting. I wonder if they will implement any changes this year or wait until next year.
 
Teams testing are:

Ford - Penske Racing/Wood Brothers Racing
Chevy - EGR/RCR
Toyota - JGR/MWR

Graves said he believes there is a "good possibility" that the 2014 rules package will include a spoiler height change, among other things.

"Is there a chance of putting a roof wicker that's clear Lexan up on the top? Yeah, that's a possibility," he said. "Running around at 200 mph, seeing a roof wicker that's made out of Lexan, I don't think anyone's really going to see it. That's not even a done deal anyway.

"There are some options. We … want to pull the radius off the bottom of the splitter. Visually, you won't be able to notice that. There is some talk about step splitters or basically carving channels in the bottom of the splitter that we're looking at."

While NASCAR officials haven't publicly discussed what is on their to-do list for the test, many in the garage say another area under discussion is the elimination of ride height limitations for today's Cup cars.
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http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...est-charlotte-possible-rule-changes-2014.html
 
This just in: MWR fined for breaking rules being detrimental to stock car racing at Charlotte test
 
ride height is an old rule that doesn't really apply anymore. hope it goes. Ford gets a new grill design for next year.
 
Every Driver has to drive their manufacturer's 1976 model stock car with added safety gear, now that would be racing.
 
FLRacingFan said:
NASCAR announced Monday that it will hold a Sprint Cup test at Charlotte on Monday, Oct. 15. Cars will be on the track from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. ET, and the goal will be research and development on the circuit's mile-and-a-half track rules package.
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Wasn't the purpose of the new car to eliminate track specific cars? To lower costs. A car that could be raced on every track? Road courses excepted. Now we're going to have 1.5 mile cars?
Aren't we going back to where we were?
 
What? Where's the Air Titan we all heard so much about? Don't tell me JPM hit it...
 
Closeup of wicker being put on Keselowski's car for testing.

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Jet dryers silenced at Charlotte Motor Speedway test as mist intensifies to sprinkles. No cars on track yet
 
Reminds me of indy car with all this talk about wicker bills and spoilers and wings. Where's the Gurney Flap and the Hanford Device?
 
Hopefully NASCAR knows what they're doing with these changes. You'd thought they'd learned after this:

 
Are they trying to slow down the cars at these 1.5 mile tracks? :confused:
 
maybe they could talk to hoosier and see if they can bring some sets of these by, just to see what they do
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I sure hope this leads to the discovery of a new kind of air that allows a faster car to pass a slower car once in a while.
 
Ironic that Hamlin got to participate in this test when he got fined back in March for saying something "detrimental" about the Gen-6 car. Maybe he'll get his money back. :p
 
Bobw said:
Wasn't the purpose of the new car to eliminate track specific cars? To lower costs. A car that could be raced on every track? Road courses excepted. Now we're going to have 1.5 mile cars?
Aren't we going back to where we were?
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Yep I remember reading that awhile back too, guess Nascar figured we would all forget about it.
 
ChexOrWrex said:
Hopefully NASCAR knows what they're doing with these changes. You'd thought they'd learned after this:

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That right there is what we need back in Nascar, a driver to stand up and make a statement and not be hauled off to the penalty box.
 
Drivers and teams brought this on them selves long ago with their whining and bitching that other makes have an advantage.
 
Mopardh9 said:
That right there is what we need back in Nascar, a driver to stand up and make a statement and not be hauled off to the penalty box.
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The problem is that Earnhardt Sr. was a force to be reckoned with, he was NASCAR and the brass knew that. I don't know of any driver who could claim the same thing today.
 
SpeedPagan said:
The problem is that Earnhardt Sr. was a force to be reckoned with, he was NASCAR and the brass knew that. I don't know of any driver who could claim the same thing today.
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Following Sr's untimely death not one of the veteran drivers stepped up. They put on their lacy underthings and accepted the krap nascar spoon fed them.
 
Bobw said:
Following Sr's untimely death not one of the veteran drivers stepped up. They put on their lacy underthings and accepted the krap nascar spoon fed them.
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The only driver I could see taking that role is Kyle Busch. He may not be my favorite driver, and he may have ruined Nationwide to an extent, but he is a top tier, elite driver and he doesn't give a **** about anything. He proudly wears the black hat.
 
I saw a pic of the front splitters tested, they had holes in the thing, I guess to break up air???
 
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