{"id":1516208,"date":"2022-06-21T17:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1516208"},"modified":"2022-06-21T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:42:42","slug":"3-nascar-drivers-testing-tires-to-see-whether-short-track-racing-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/3-nascar-drivers-testing-tires-to-see-whether-short-track-racing-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"3 NASCAR Drivers Are Testing Tires to See Whether Short-Track Racing Is Dead in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Not everyone in the NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> got a full extra week of vacation time after Sonoma. NASCAR has enlisted Kyle Busch<\/a> and a couple of other drivers to participate in a test Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will either be a step toward making short-track racing bearable to watch again or confirmation that fans can blow off Richmond, Martinsville, and Bristol later this year with no fear of missing something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a few exceptions, the first-year Next Gen car has performed well on NASCAR Cup Series ovals that are a mile or longer. Multiple factors go into setting cars up for a race, including the length of the track, the age and composition of the surface, and the banking of both the corners and the straightaways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Invariably, how the tires handle those variables as well as the weather go a long way toward determining whether there is quality racing. More so than anything else, fans measure that by drivers\u2019 ability to execute passes. And that\u2019s where the races at Richmond and Martinsville, won by Denny Hamlin and William Byron, respectively, came up short.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNASCAR\u2019s Next Gen cars have disappointed on short tracks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n