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DISTRO 03.08.13 THE RACING LINE: EXPLORING NASCAR’S TECHNOLOGICAL DICHOTOMY
PRIOR TO A RACE,
YOU’LL COMMONLY SEE
ENGINEERS STANDING
THERE LOOKING
INTENTLY (SOMETIMES
CONFUSEDLY) AT LAPTOPS
SITTING ON ROOFTOPS
AS V8 ENGINES RUMBLE
AWAY IN THE GARAGE,
SLOWLY COMING UP TO
TEMPERATURE.
banned — except when it’s not.
Teams are allowed to participate
in private test days at
non-sanctioned tracks (those
NASCAR does not compete at).
In these sessions, anything goes.
Engineers can slap as many
widgets, sensors and other bits
of prototype hardware on their
machines as they like.
“We don’t get the opportunity
to do that all the time.
We’ll do it four or five times a
year, but we don’t have enough
to support it on a week-in and
week-out basis,” Scott Miller,
executive VP of competition at
Michael Waltrip Racing, said.
This sort of data acquisition
can exponentially raise the cost
of motorsports, something NASCAR teams are keenly aware
of. Miller estimates the budget of a top NASCAR team is somewhere
between one-tenth to one-fifth that of a top Formula One
THE CLAW
This is the slang term
for the template that
they lower down onto
cars to ensure that they
fit within NASCAR’s
defined boundaries.
Each point must make
contact with the car to
ensure it is the exact,
precise shape. Any deviation
will send the car
back to the garage.