Toyota’s six drivers, spread across the Joe Gibbs Racing and 23XI teams, were the first to file up in line and practice drafting on Tuesday as the Next Gen cars hit Daytona’s high banks for the first time in anger.
Five of its Camrys ended the opening practice in sixth through 10th on the speed charts, topped by five Ford Mustangs that teamed up later. Fords then swept the top 10 spots in the second session under the lights.
“The aero platform of this new car is a little bit different,” said Wallace. There will be a lot to figure out.
“Hopefully, we will do a lot of that in the Duel to see what we can really do with this car and for what we need to work on when we go to Talladega and back here to Daytona. It’s a world of unknown that takes a lot of digesting and dissecting that makes us better than we were with last year’s car.
“We had a two-hour long aero meeting before we got on track to try to figure out where to position our car. Things are a little different,…
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