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    The test roster also included two Roush Fenway Racing Fords (Colin Braun and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.), a Penske Racing Dodge (Justin Allgaier) and a Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota (Trevor Bayne). "Initially, (we got) very favourable comments ... Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton were the first to go out in a little bit of a draft session, and one of the things that stuck in my mind was a comment that these cars race better in the draft than the current Nationwide car." NASCAR started the session with a restrictor plate (designed to reduced airflow to the carburettor and thereby to reduce horsepower at superspeedways) whose holes measured 29/32nd of an inch. Full Article at crash.net
    Initially, (we got) very favourable comments ... Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton were the first to go out in a little bit of a draft session, and one of the things that stuck in my mind was a comment that these cars race better in the draft than the current Nationwide car.
    – Brett Bodine SOURCE: crash.net 3 weeks ago
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NWS: Teams shakedown new car
  1. We wanted to start conservative, because this was the first time we've had these cars on a superspeedway ... So we put a tapered spacer on the car, and then we put a restrictor plate under the tapered spacer. … We made a gear change along the way to work on the RPMs of the car. We're trying to balance o...
    SOURCE: crash.net 3 weeks ago
  2. We've got a target to start shaking the cars down at 190 miles an hour and get our gears and restrictor plates as close as we can
    SOURCE: crash.net 3 weeks ago

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