Sprint Cup teams to use smaller restrictor plate at Talladega
Quote selected text Published April 24th, 2008 in NASCAR News
NASCAR Sprint Cup teams will use a restrictor plate with smaller holes this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. The restrictor plate holes were 31/32nds of an inch in diameter for the Talladega race last October, and it will be 15/16ths of an inch (30/32nds) for the race this weekend.
“The teams had made such great advances with the engine package for Talladega, there was a need to reduce the size of the plate ever so slightly to keep the speeds in check,” NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said Thursday.
The mandated wing angle remains at 10 degrees for Talladega.
Teams will start with a wicker bill on the back of the wing that is 1 inch, with the final height determined after practice Friday.
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I thought Talladega was a super speedway?
They should run restrictor plate free!!!
mcdoweel tested the CoT at 160 MPH.
We don’t need somebody to test it at 210, 215, or 220.
steve wrote:
Thats not really the issue,the drivers would love to go faster but 215 to 220 is to fast for a full body car its a safety issue for drivers and fans.
can we say boring?
Faster Racing rarely equals Better racing.
Look how fast Indy cars go, and look at how little actual racing there is.
They could easily let these cars go around there without plates, but it’d be nothing but follow the leader with the only passes coming when somebody pits or when somebody wrecks. Then again they could also easily slow these cars down to about 125-135 and you’d have the same thing follow the leader with little to know actual racing passes.
The way the COT and the Spoiler cars are built they are “happy” at Dega/Tona around 175-185, and more or less and they are not “happy”, and when the cars aren’t “happy” neither are the fans.