For today’s UAW-Ford 500 from the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway, the following Nextel Cup Chasers constitute the lineup:
795 - Carl Edwards, #99
796 - Kevin Harvick, #29
797 - Jeff Gordon, #24
798 - Martin Truex, Jr, #1
799 - Jeff Burton, #31
This will be Dale Earnhardt Jr’s last run at Talladega in the legendary #8 Budweiser car. I thought that with his past success at the track, he might wind up back on channel 799 again, but it wasn’t to be.
It will also be the first superspeedway race using the Car of Tomorrow. I just saw a discussion of the car and superspeedways on NASCAR Performance on SpeedTV. They explained how the front bumper of the COT aligns better with the COT rear bumpers. This means that bump drafting is less prone to lift a car’s rear wheels off the track. Bootie Barker offered this comment on the subject:
The wreckin’ is gonna’ be impressive.
-k-
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