Biffle believes Charlotte test didn't really help with new car
By Jared Turner - SceneDaily Staff Writer
Saturday, May 17, 2008
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CONCORD, N.C. - In a recent two-day Sprint Cup test session at Lowe's Motor Speedway, drivers and teams were given another opportunity to shake down NASCAR's new car - a model that has been criticized for being too hard to drive on intermediate-sized tracks this season.
NASCAR scheduled the test, held May 5 and 6, to give competitors a chance to make their cars handle better, hoping that would help create better racing for this weekend's Sprint All-Star Race and next weekend's Coca-Cola 600.
The most recent intermediate track event held last month at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway - a track virtually identical to Lowe's in size and design - led Hendrick Motorsports' Jimmie Johnson and other top finishers to further complain about the new car's handling characteristics.
Well, according to Greg Biffle, the recent test as LMS hasn't offered an immediate cure.
“I don’t see it a lot different than Texas," the Roush Fenway Racing driver said after Friday's final Sprint All-Star Race practice at LMS. "These race tracks are not similar, but are a little bit. I think these cars make it harder to catch one another and make any moves, so it’ll probably be tougher than normal, but this car, I think, has been harder to pass overall.
"I think everybody has seen that. It hasn’t made it harder to pass, it’s equaled out the field more, I think, is what you’ve seen. There isn’t one car that’s a lot faster than the other car.”
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- Greg Biffle
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