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Joey Logano says NASCAR’s new vehicles are like ‘marbles’
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Prepare for a wild journey.
Sunday’s Daytona 500 kicks off a brand new period for the racing league as it is going to be the primary official points-paying race to function the all-new Subsequent Gen Cup Sequence automobile.
Logano received the Conflict on the Coliseum in NASCAR’s Subsequent Gen automobile.
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The fully redesigned Fords, Chevys and Toyotas function improvements like unbiased rear suspensions, five-speed sequential gearboxes, composite bodywork and wider tires with a decrease profile.
The vehicles have already appeared within the exhibition Conflict on the Coliseum race, which was held on a quarter-mile brief observe constructed contained in the L.A. Coliseum and featured loads of car-to-car contact. The occasion, designed to attract new eyes to the game, was received by Joey Logano.
However what can they count on to see in the event that they tune in to the Daytona 500 superspeedway race?
The Daytona 500 would be the first official points-paying race for the Subsequent Gen automobile.
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“Identical factor right here in Daytona. You’re going to be bumping and banging, however you’re going to be going 200 mph whilst you’re doing it,” Logano advised The Fox Storage.
“The chance is lots increased, so it modifications lots. The reward’s lots greater, although.
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The Workforce Penske driver stated profitable at Daytona is “second to none,” and he ought to know, having taken the checkered flag on the 2015 working of The Nice American Race.
“Everybody pushes laborious for this one. It turns into loopy. There’s going to be some huge crashes, we’re going to be throughout one another, it’s going to be intense, I can promise you that.”
Logano is aware of that each one too properly. He was main on the final lap final yr when he was hit from behind and wrecked in a multi-car crash.
It’s the form of factor he thinks there might be extra of as a result of design of the brand new automobile.
The Subsequent Gen automobile’s bodywork is designed to look extra like a manufacturing automobile’s.
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“One factor that’s very totally different is that they have spherical entrance and rear bumpers on it,” he defined. “We now have full contact racing. And one of many methods to maneuver your line ahead is bodily pushing the automobile in entrance of you.”
The 2021 NASCAR Cup Sequence automobile had bigger flat areas on its entrance and rear bumpers that allowed them to return into contact with much less probability of crashing.
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“When your automobile has flat bumpers, that’s, not that it’s simple, but it surely’s just a little extra comforting. When you’ve gotten two spherical bumpers it’s like pushing two marbles towards one another, and also you don’t know which method it’s gonna go, and it strikes that automobile round in entrance of you a large number and when there’s solely a few ft to spare to the left or the appropriate of you, and you progress a automobile in entrance of you a method or one other, it’s going to trigger a giant crash.”
The Daytona 500 kicks off Sunday, Feb. 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
