Straighten them out, NASCAR to tell Cup teams
DAVID POOLE
The Charlotte Observer
Saturday, May. 17, 2008
CONCORD, N.C. - Expect NASCAR to tell Sprint Cup teams that they've gone far enough - and in some cases, too far - with making crooked cars.
Sprint Cup Series director John Darby said Saturday that teams will get a memo, likely this week, telling them to "clean up" the way they're turning their wheels to help the cars handle better.
"They need some of that, but there are some of them that have pushed it," Darby said.
The rear wheels on some of the cars were turned to the point that some were having difficulty being pushed onto the scales used in inspection
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As an added note...none of the Hendrick cars have used this method of having the cars run "doggy style." That's what we called it in our day, today it's called something else. Gnarly perhaps. And not in the rad sense either. More like rheumatoid arthritic fingers. Crooked. Yeah, that's the ticket...
Maybe now there will be a more even-playing field for all the cars.
2 comments:
Race cars don't have to be set up for straight line driving all the way, I didn't know alignment was regulated on NASCAR.
If Jr. would leave the green colors his luck might be a little better. Green used to be unlucky except for Great Britain cars.
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Jim ~ Some teams (Roush-Fenway being one of them) have gotten out of hand with the severity of it. NASCAR wants to put a stop to it before we see the wheels going one way and the body the other way. lol
Dale Jr doesn't only drive a green car. And BTW he won the Bud Shootout and the first Twin 125 in Daytona back in Feb. both times in his green car. He also drives a blue one, Saturday he drove a black & silver, and he's got a camo coming up in July plus others the rest of the year that won't be green.
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