finally ...2 great races this weekend ....road courses !

KevinWI said:
Do the Cup cars with the 0 ride height now have less ground clearance than the DP class in Tudor? They must, right? Holy cow.
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ride height....rebound / compress rates on shocks...spring rates .... gonna be a guess w/ most teams at sonoma.
gonna be fun race ta watch.
 
KevinWI said:
Do the Cup cars with the 0 ride height now have less ground clearance than the DP class in Tudor? They must, right? Holy cow.
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I think the DP cars have a static minimum of only 1.5 inches so they're still pretty close to the ground. You can see best on the first lap and frontstretch of lap two how much they were smacking the ground.

 
Revman said:
Crucial weekend for Toyota. Got to get while the getting is good when the set ups become neutralized and the hp is irrelevant. M&M's in Victory Lane?
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Hp irrelevant on those hill climbs?
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I think that is part of the early problems this season they are having, the splitter is the lowest part they tune the chassis too and a lot of teams have the splitter hitting too much on runs. but on a road course they don't use the splitter so something else in the front of the car is going to be the first thing to hit the track I would guess(might be the tires hitting the top of the fenders, watch for Johnson's car to look like an SUV). I do think Nascar checks the rear spoiler height now though, they have a minimum spoiler height rule in the back. Last year they did away with the snowplow splitter so I would guess that will be gone again this year, my concern is when they short cut the corners and hit the curb. They used to do that on purpose to load the car thru the corner. Probably worried for nothing, they probably will keep doing it. Rear wheel hop should be reduced with the lower car would be another of my guesses. At any rate, it is going to be a different ballgame with the new changes.
 
hawg dawg said:
replace phoenix .....with 2nd sonoma race .....#9 chase race i say !

martinsville....texas....sonoma ! .....7..8...9

that oughta shuffle it up for final 4 @ homestead !
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Don't touch Phoenix. I say give Texas the boot and put Road Atlanta in its place. or second Watkins Glen/Sonoma.
 
Surprised by the number of Chase Elliott t-shirts here.

I have some video of the sports car race and NNS practice. Will try to post.
 
KevinWI said:
Surprised by the number of Chase Elliott t-shirts here.

I have some video of the sports car race and NNS practice. Will try to post.
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That was a bummer that he shifted into the wrong gear yesterday and blew up his engine and didn't get very much practice time.
 
Why does this place make me so happy? So relaxed. Not like any other race track I've been too. Will try to get a clip of the NNS race.
 
Yay for driver skill! I would love if a foutth of the schedule was road courses.
 
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