No Restrictor Plate... DODGE SOARS!!
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No Restrictor Plate... DODGE SOARS!!
Rusty Wallace got a chance to run his NASCAR Nextel Cup Dodge at Talladega Superspeedway without a horsepower-sapping carburetor restrictor plate. The result was an eye popping lap at more then 216 MPH!!
"We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway." an excited Wallace said of his run Wednesday on the 2.66 mile oval. "It was a deal that I certainly will remember for the rest of my life. We'd all been wondering what it would feel like to run at Talladega again without the plates and now I know. I'll bet we could be running speeds up to 235 without the plates, if we spent some time doing some tweaking."
But the longtime Cup star and former series champion isn't expecting NASCAR to abandon the plates anytime soon.
"I'll tell you this: there's no way we could be out there racing at those speeds," Wallace said. "It was neat to be out there running that fast by myself, but it would be insane to think we could have a pack of cars doing that."
Wallace's speed easily exceeded the official Talladega and NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809, set by Bill Elliott on April 30, 1987.
Talladega race speeds reached close to 210 that year before a crash nearly sent Bobby Allison's car intp the packed main grandstand. That prompted NASCAR to begin requiring carburetor plates to slow cars at Talladega and Daytona, its two longest and fastest tracks.
~Amanda
"We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway." an excited Wallace said of his run Wednesday on the 2.66 mile oval. "It was a deal that I certainly will remember for the rest of my life. We'd all been wondering what it would feel like to run at Talladega again without the plates and now I know. I'll bet we could be running speeds up to 235 without the plates, if we spent some time doing some tweaking."
But the longtime Cup star and former series champion isn't expecting NASCAR to abandon the plates anytime soon.
"I'll tell you this: there's no way we could be out there racing at those speeds," Wallace said. "It was neat to be out there running that fast by myself, but it would be insane to think we could have a pack of cars doing that."
Wallace's speed easily exceeded the official Talladega and NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809, set by Bill Elliott on April 30, 1987.
Talladega race speeds reached close to 210 that year before a crash nearly sent Bobby Allison's car intp the packed main grandstand. That prompted NASCAR to begin requiring carburetor plates to slow cars at Talladega and Daytona, its two longest and fastest tracks.
~Amanda
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RE: No Restrictor Plate... DODGE SOARS!!
If NASCAR really wanted to, they could come up with a barrier system that would protect the fans, no matter what the speed. But, they also know that Dodge's would rule the roost without the plates, so they are playing the same old games they did back in the 60's.....[:@]
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RE: No Restrictor Plate... DODGE SOARS!!
See what happens when I don't come on to the forum for a few days, I get beat by what I was going to post...
Yeah, amazing news... would awesome if they built such a speedway they could race the cars at, under these conditions. I mean they could at Daytona, Talladega, or Atlanta... but I mean a track surround by the safer barrier, just like dustyloins said. Similar to the track featured on the computer game NASCAR Racing 2003... Coca-Cola SuperSpeedway, or maybe even the track featured on NASCAR Thunder 2003 in Orlando, Florida where they run clockwise!
redriderbob
Yeah, amazing news... would awesome if they built such a speedway they could race the cars at, under these conditions. I mean they could at Daytona, Talladega, or Atlanta... but I mean a track surround by the safer barrier, just like dustyloins said. Similar to the track featured on the computer game NASCAR Racing 2003... Coca-Cola SuperSpeedway, or maybe even the track featured on NASCAR Thunder 2003 in Orlando, Florida where they run clockwise!
redriderbob