To help pick a tire to be used on the track for NASCAR’s Next Gen car this season, drivers Chris Buescher, Kurt Busch and Ross Chastain spent days testing various tire combinations.
As part of the track’s recently completed reconfiguration, the banking in the corners was increased from 24 to 28 degrees – higher than any other intermediate track on the NASCAR schedule.
The track width was also from 55 feet to 40 feet in the corners. The frontstretch is 52 feet wide and the backstretch 42 feet. The track was last repaved in 1997.
“I’m that brain emoji where my brain is blowing off,” said Busch, who will drive the No. 45 Toyota for 23XI Racing this season. “There’s a lot to digest.
“It’s an engineering marvel to bank a race track with this much banking and keep the turns this sharp and to have it as smooth as it is. They did a really good job.”
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