Restrictor plates at LMS?

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

Restrictor plates at LMS?

spdracer19 · Pick-um contest administrator

So that would mean that any testing that had been completed and paid for would be null and void because the data would mean nothing. That makes a lot of sense for saving money for the small teams. Why not just take the race away from Lowes and run it where they didn't try to fix what aint broke. A Chase Bristol night race

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

From Jayski.com:

UPDATE:After laser-grinding the Lowes Motor Speedway track to help get another year of wear out of the 1.5-mile layout, track President Humpy Wheeler says the surface will have to be repaved for 2006. Wheeler said “I think what we’ve gotta do though is to study real hard, not just go pave over what we’ve got. I think we probably need to change some of the banking a little bit. Maybe put a different asphalt mix in to make it more stable and get ready for the new car NASCAR is going to bring out. That graduated banking has been around for a long time and it is affective in creating a second groove. What we want to do here is to make sure we have a second groove so you can have passing and lead swapping.” As for a published report concerning the use of restrictor plates after the track is repaved Wheeler said "I'm all for it, let's do it! It just makes better racing. You slow the cars down and you always have better racing. I don't think they're gonna do it...but...keep the rumor going! !"(PRN's Garage Pass Radio Show)(9-28-2005)

spdracer19 · Pick-um contest administrator

Humpy should come up here and watch the follow the leader races we have in the WMT & BGNN and then think about restricting the Cup cars to have tight racing. They will just have the big ones at Lowes instead of better racing.

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

From Jayski.com:

UPDATE 2: NASCAR Nextel Cup Director John Darby would neither confirm nor deny rumors that the sanctioning body will mandate the use of restrictor plates at the October Cup race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. #20-Tony Stewart and #16-Greg Biffle each crashed two cars at Lowe’s last week, as two rounds of computer-aided track grinding — a process known as “levigation” — have made the venerable 1.5-mile track extremely fast. “We carry restrictor plates on our truck 38 weeks a year,” Darby said Friday at Talladega. “They’re there for a lot of reasons, and if a situation ever creates itself that starts to look like it’s leading itself towards the direction that we’re going to have a tremendous amount of problems in the race … or something that we can’t predict or didn’t expect to see, that’s why we have the plates. … If we ever get in a situation where we have to use them, we’ll use them.”(Speed Channel)(10-1-2005)