The most frequent complaint heard at “New and improved” LVMS was “Fast — too fast!”

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said his “car wasn’t driving that good around the bottom” but he picked up speed as he moved up the banking. Junior compared the redesigned track to Atlanta, adding that “the bumps going into (turn) one are really bad” and that the car was carrying a lot of load into the corners.

The afternoon session introduced a whole new set of problems, as many teams searched for balance and suffered an abnormally high tally of cut and blistered tires. Greg Biffle wadded up his car after he cut a tire early in testing. But when Kasey Kahne blew a right front tire and destroyed Chassis 128 — the best car of the stable that carried him to most of the No. 9’s six wins last year — the garage took notice.

“That was my car,” said a remorseful Kahne, who had posted the fastest lap of the day (29.239 seconds at 184.685 mph) in his favorite chassis. “That was the car, the good car. We don’t have cars that are better, but we have cars that are that good.”

Jeff Burton was far from satisfied after his day of testing. While he applauded track builders for canvassing the garage, Burton wonders how the suggestions are lost in translation.

“They screwed up Charlotte and didn’t do this place any favors,” Burton said. “What we do is inherently dangerous, and the racing doesn’t have to be this fast. It’s hard to get a feel for it. I don’t see how too fast racing makes for good racing.

“The tires have to be as hard as bricks or they will explode. How many tires have we seen blow out today, three, four? We can expect tire problems when we built this type of a racetrack.”

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