Todd Berrier on the COT.
Q: How’s the Car of Tomorrow going to play at Darlington this weekend?
Berrier: How’s the COT going to play at Darlington? I really think, at the end of a fuel run, you’ll be able to go out there and run faster in a rental car. I’m being perfectly honest with you.
I think it’s going to be miserably slow. But, I don’t honestly know. I think the race at Phoenix, where we were at another mile place; I think it was rather boring from my perspective.
Then I watched the Busch race at Richmond [last] Friday night and I thought it was rather good. I’m hoping the same thing plays out for [the Car of Tomorrow] — the thing is just so top-heavy and the center of gravity is so high.
There’s nothing about it that you would build, intentionally that way to go to Darlington and run fast — or anyplace else, for that matter. Darlington is just going to be way worse because the tires fall off so much.
I feel like it’s going to be miserable — miserably ugly. But I might be 100 percent wrong.
http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/features/05/08/kharvick.tberrier.garage.darlington/1.html
PING TO Darlington Race thread........
Because of the track’s unwieldy shape, Darlington Raceway has been considered one of the most difficult tracks to drive. Winning at Darlington means that you possess exceptional skills behind the wheel. The track has been nicknamed ‘The Lady In Black’, and dubbed the track ‘Too Tough To Tame’.
“You never forget your first love,” seven-time Cup Champion Dale Earnhardt once said, “whether it’s a high school sweetheart, a faithful old hunting dog, or a fickle racetrack in South Carolina with a contrary disposition. And, if you happen to be a race car driver there’s no victory so sweet, so memorable, as whipping Darlington Raceway.”
We all thought BRISTOL’s first COT encounter was going to be a wreckfest, but the cars handled so horribly that it was hard to get ‘racey’ with them.
I suspect the same thing this weekend???