Cup teams to test 'car of tomorrow' at Michigan
Two Toyota teams and eight other organizations tentatively plan on attending NASCAR's test of the "car of tomorrow" on Monday at Michigan International Speedway.
Bill Elliott will test a Camry for Team Red Bull, and Michael Waltrip and Dave Blaney will share test duties on a car built by Michael Waltrip Racing and Bill Davis Racing.
In addition to the two Toyota cars, eight other organizations tentatively planned to attend: Hendrick Motorsports (Jeff Gordon), Chip Ganassi Racing (David Stremme), Joe Gibbs Racing (J.J. Yeley), MB2 Motorsports (Joe Nemechek), Haas CNC Racing (Jeff Green), Penske Racing South (Kurt Busch/Billy Wease), Roush Racing (Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Jamie McMurray) and Evernham Motorsports (Scott Riggs).
It will be the first test for the car at a 2-mile oval.
"It will be the first time we have had a car on the track, so we're going to look at trying to correlate what we've seen in the wind tunnel to what we expect to see on the track," said Pat Wall, Toyota's NASCAR program manager.
Teams received what should be their final specs to the car in the last two weeks, NASCAR Director of Cost Research Brett Bodine said last Sunday.
The car of tomorrow will be used on tracks 1 mile long or shorter, road courses and the fall race at Talladega next year.
