John Darby: Don’t expect changes on ‘Car of Tomorrow’
Quote selected text Published May 8th, 2007 in NASCAR News
Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he expects to be frustrated with the car of tomorrow at Darlington this weekend. NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Director John Darby says that’s how it’s supposed to be. He has heard drivers talk about the cars being more difficult to turn since the start of testing with the new car. But drivers will learn.
“There should be a level of frustration - obviously different levels,” Darby said Monday during a break in testing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. “I would imagine anybody yesterday other than [Richmond winner] Jimmie Johnson had a concern or a frustration at some point because that’s the way our sport works. Frustration to the point where we’re going to change anything going forward, probably not.”
In addressing car of tomorrow competition issues, Darby said he is not concerned about the dominance of Hendrick Motorsports (four wins) and Chevrolet (which has led all but 63 of the 1,716 laps in COT events).
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Darby may be a pompous ass but I like his stance on the COT. “There should be a level of frustration.”
The only team that seems to have a grip on the COT , is the team with 500 employees. What a surprise , it was supposed to balance the playing field , but the team with the most everything comes out in front again.
Darby check your ratings! NASCAR is becoming F1 a 2 team show!
team hendrick has been doing their homework and its paying off. simple as that.
or is nascar “fixing” its races again?
Sounds like Jr. is just making more excuses for his lack of talent.
hahaha. again..im not a non Jr fan. but Billys comment is funny