Humpy Wheeler wants NASCAR to test at LMS
Quote selected text Published April 10th, 2008 in NASCAR News
Looking to increase competition, H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, president and general manager of Lowe’s Motor Speedway, is encouraging NASCAR to host an open Sprint Cup Series test at the 1.5-mile superspeedway prior to the May 17 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race .
“It’s our intention to have the best racing possible here during the month of May and I have always believed that preparation is the key to great racing,” Wheeler said. “You can compute, work the post machine and microscope the car until your tools bleed, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is as valuable as track time. So, we have offered NASCAR at least two days, May 5-6, to bring the teams in so they can test the new car. We’ll have the track open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. so they can experiment with chassis set-ups during both daytime and nighttime conditions,” Wheeler added.
“Then, if further testing is needed, dates closer to the May 17 Sprint All-Star Race can be provided.” If NASCAR accepts Wheeler’s offer, the test session would take place on Monday and Tuesday following the Saturday night race at Richmond International Raceway and prior to teams heading to nearby Darlington Raceway for another Saturday night event.
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great idea in my opinion. the teams do need some extra time with the car on these types of tracks, and nascar really cannot afford the all-star race and the 600 being bad shows.
Great idea…the races have been not so competitive this year
due to only 5-6 cars hitting the set up or even being close
this would allow for better racing.
Great Idea and it will build intrest for the All Star event = putting $$$ in Humpys bottom line.
No one said he was dumb just annoying…
Practice is always a good thing especially with this new car.
SMI has wanted the same thing so far this year for all of their tracks, and each time they have said the race would be disasterous without an open test day. And each time SMI was wrong.
I say let them test, they can test ARCA cars, they can test USAR/ASA cars, Heck maybe Humpy can dust off those cars that he made when he tried to create his own Racing series (before he stole the money from the investors and then decided that he did not want to start his own series)…
They have a few Practices for the All-Star race, plus a few practices for the 600, I think thats more then enough time.