Wednesday, November 01, 2017

NASCAR Phasing In Plate-Drag Duct Package For Wider Use

First the original post from November 1, 2017: 


Special thanks to Douglas Ivey.





NASCAR has announced the restrictor plate-drag duct package used at Indianapolis in the Xfinity series Diabetes 250 will be expanded for Pocono and Michigan in 2018.    It is easily a positive move as the combination made the draft more effective and increased passing.

What the racing with this package will look like was shown in huge battles for the win at both tracks in the Truck Series in 2017 -





John Hunter Nemechek squared off against Christopher Bell in the final ten laps at Pocono







Bubba Wallace returned to victory with this spectacular ten-lap shootout at Michigan


This is a great decision by NASCAR and one hopes it begins the process of phasing it into all of NASCAR's other series, for this package works.


UPDATE, April 12, 2018:  NASCAR will run the restrictor plate-drag duct package in the 2018 Winston All-Star Race at Charlotte.

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