It helps me to remind myself what I need to be doing in order to prepare for next year. While Caruth had a later start to his racing career, one that began with video games and iRacing, he has made major strides in recent years. He also continued competing in the Bojangles Summer Shootout. He finished seven of the eight races and posted five top finishes and two top-fives. Caruth ended the season third in points and set up a bigger schedule in The partial Xfinity Series schedule will only set the stage for future production.
To help with that, the team recently added several people. Among the new hires was Dave Rogers, who won the Xfinity championship as crew chief for Daniel Hemric. Dave is one those guys with a unique talent in the garage area, highly respected and experienced that we can put him to use and help develop our program as a whole.
The two-day test there earlier this month showed more work was needed on the 1. One of the issues that came up in the test was how much slower the Next Gen cars were compared to the times run on the Charlotte oval in May with the previous car. While a variety of factors played a role, including drivers working their way to be comfortable in the new car, it did raise the issue of how important speed is.
Former champion Chase Elliott says he noticed a difference. I could really hear and feel how much I slowed down from the beginning of a lap run to the end. That was probably the biggest thing to that stood out to me.
Moving the car number forward from the door is meant to give sponsors a larger space to use. The recent Next Gen tests on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval and oval gave a glimpse of how the space could be used. Steve Newmark, president of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing team, said the company has had positive responses from its sponsors on the change and what it can allow them to do on the car.
The partners have loved it. I think you are going to see some pretty cool paint schemes coming out next year. Newmark also noted that not all companies would use all the space available to them. With seven road course events on the Cup schedule this past season, there was talk about how many of those races Chase Elliott would win and who could challenge him.
Teammate Kyle Larson won a series-high three races on road courses. Elliott and Larson each finished in the top five in five of the seven road courses. Tyler Reddick won three stages on the road courses, most in Cup. A few tips for the event is on the first race on the first corner brake sooner and wrap the cart on the inside of the corner.
I started very wide and left even wider due to the speed going in, but it is much faster to enter close and leave wide. Drafting the other carts can also make you go faster. The third race is super hard still. I came 2nd more times than I can count. Biggest tip I can give is on the second corner where it is very sharp is to stick to the inside the whole way. I would enter close and exit very wide and that will slow you down a lot.
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