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■ NASCAR’s decision this week to order Nextel Cup teams to prepare for running the car of tomorrow in all 38 races next year is provoking considerable reaction.
Kyle Petty said that NASCAR hasn’t gone far enough.
“We should run the car of tomorrow the second-half of 2007,” Petty said. “These are smart people in the NASCAR garage - they can handle it, they can make this work.
“We’ve gotten into some headaches with it in the races we’ve run. But we need to race it more. We need to learn it and get into a rhythm. I’m all for running this car as soon as possible every week.”
But Rick Hendrick’s drivers have won every car-of-tomorrow race.
“There is nothing wrong with domination,” Petty said. “The sport has been built on domination. Go back to Petty Enterprises with Richard … and then to Darrell Waltrip, and Dale Earnhardt, and Jeff Gordon.
“There is nothing wrong with that. You have to have something to shoot at.”
■ NASCAR’s decision this week to order Nextel Cup teams to prepare for running the car of tomorrow in all 38 races next year is provoking considerable reaction.
Kyle Petty said that NASCAR hasn’t gone far enough.
“We should run the car of tomorrow the second-half of 2007,” Petty said. “These are smart people in the NASCAR garage - they can handle it, they can make this work.
“We’ve gotten into some headaches with it in the races we’ve run. But we need to race it more. We need to learn it and get into a rhythm. I’m all for running this car as soon as possible every week.”
But Rick Hendrick’s drivers have won every car-of-tomorrow race.
“There is nothing wrong with domination,” Petty said. “The sport has been built on domination. Go back to Petty Enterprises with Richard … and then to Darrell Waltrip, and Dale Earnhardt, and Jeff Gordon.
“There is nothing wrong with that. You have to have something to shoot at.”