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CAR OF TOMORROW TESTS GOING WELL Testing of NASCAR's "Car of Tomorrow," which will debut in 2007 appears to be going well. A two-day test in Charlotte was the first since the addition of the wing instead of a spoiler. Having a wing, which sits above the rear deck lid, reduces the turbulence in the air as it passes over the rear of the car in traffic. "The dreaded aero push will never be gone because two cars moving through the same air will never be equal," Nextel Cup Series Director John Darby said. "But one thing the wing does do and we did see here the last two days, it is very efficient and very effective at supplying the trail car with much more air than what we have currently. "That ultimately will help that car turn and feel better and make the air a whole lot less dirty." At Atlanta, drivers wrecked in their first test session of driving in a pack, but there were no incidents during the multicar runs at LMS. At the next test, teams will also have a tire they are more used to, since they were using the hard Charlotte tire for the test. Drivers did battle a tight condition much as they did with the current car-tire combination. "In one sense, we were testing (here) under a worst-case scenario with a hot, slick race track and a real hard tire, and we were still able to achieve a comfort level at least as good as what we had last weekend and in some cases even better," Darby continued. "A lot of gains have been made. The good thing is we came out of here with a new list of things we needed to address and fix, but they're all minor things." Add a comment |
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