Harvick, who got wrecked out of last Sunday’s Daytona 500 and finished 30th, believes the two-mile track will prove an “aggressive” test for the new-sized tires, which feature a much lower-profiled sidewall.
He believes that no amount of pre-race simulation can prepare for the demands that lie ahead in this Sunday’s 400-miler in California.
“When you go to Fontana, a two-mile racetrack where you have the most aggressive tire falloff of all the racetracks we go to, it’ll be trial by fire,” said Harvick. “It’s just not like anything else, and not knowing about the car, that’s where I go back to practice and make sure that you’re involved in everything that’s going on, because making sure that you take care of the tires, and making sure you can make them last, is going to be extremely important.”
Harvick thinks that tire management will be the key to success at Fontana, as the track hasn’t been resurfaced since it was built in 1997.
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