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Resurfaced Texas: Is it too fast? By Dave Rodman, Turner Sports Interactive March 28, 2002 4:24 PM EST (2124 GMT)

 

JUSTIN, Texas -- More than 20 NASCAR teams and drivers from the Winston Cup and Busch Series have tested for four days at Texas Motor Speedway and while there's no doubt the newly paved 1.5-mile oval is billiard table smooth, one question remains:

 

Is the race track too fast?

 

Jeff Burton

 

Jeff Burton won the Winston Cup inaugural at the track in 1997 and while he -- and all his compatriots -- continue to praise the quality of the overall venue, he had some questions after testing there in preparation for the April 7 Samsung/RadioShack 500.

 

"It's fast," Burton said Tuesday after testing for one day, his tone making it clear there was no room for underestimating what he was saying. "I don't know about the speeds we're turning, but there is nothing that feels as fast as this place -- it's real fast.

 

"It's so fast that you run 10-12 laps and I couldn't stand it -- you have to come in."

 

Texas Motor Speedway executive vice president and general manager Eddie Gossage said the speeds were expected and the track is being as proactive as it can to aid the race weekend performance of the asphalt.

 

The new granite-based pavement was installed prior to last fall's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and IRL weekend.

 

"I don't think there was any surprise from the speeds we saw in testing -- race teams are always working for an edge, to go faster and faster," Gossage said. "That, combined with a new paving job that's incredibly smooth, leads to fast speeds -- Atlanta is an example of that."

 

When the sister Speedway Motorsports facility, the 1.54-mile Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., was reconfigured and re-paved prior to the 1997 season finale, Geoffrey Bodine set the track qualifying record with a lap of 197.478 mph.

 

Eddie Gossage

 

"A couple weeks ago at Atlanta, Bill Elliott won the pole at 191.5 mph," Gossage said. "As the track ages and the asphalt cures, the speeds drop significantly."

 

But that doesn't solve the issue of how fast the race track is right now.

 

Stacy Compton tested at Texas in advance of running both the Winston Cup and Busch Series races, and said the drivers shared a lot of tenuous conversations in the garage area.

 

"Everybody's nervous," Compton said. "The place is so fast, you run about 10 laps and you do have kind of a hard time breathing. It's not like you're holding your breath -- but you're not concentrating on breathing like you should.

 

"Jeff (Burton) and I talked about it and we agreed it's kind of like the first time you go out at Bristol -- it takes you about five minutes to recover. It's so fast and so intense -- it's just like, 'Wow!' That's what you're feeling there (Texas).

 

"You're pulling some G's there -- you're back in the gas way before the center of the corner. Literally, you barely lift -- in qualifying, I don't know if we will or not. We're not real smart sometimes (but) it's gonna be fine."

 

Last spring, TMS's inaugural CART Fed-Ex Championship Series event was canceled when drivers experienced vertigo from high speeds, in excess of 220 mph. No one in stock cars has indicated they are going anywhere near fast enough to experience those kind of problems, but the speed is still a concern.

 

"You're going so damn fast if something goes wrong, we'll hit this wall a ton," said Rusty Wallace, who also tested for two days this week. "Some guys were running practice laps (and) they didn't want to go back out."

 

Stacy Compton

 

Jerry Nadeau estimated lap times would be "probably a second quicker than last year -- the surface is so smooth." Compton's take on the pole was it could be as fast as 27.5 seconds, or more than 196 mph.

 

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s 2001 pole effort was 28.320 seconds, an average speed of 190.678 mph. A second better than that in lap time would equal a lap of more than 197.6 mph.

 

Drivers surveyed after the test agreed their corner entry speeds were in excess of 200 mph.

 

Texas Motor Speedway officials are rightfully proud of their motorsports complex located just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex -- but when is enough too much?

 

"I hate the track, as fast as it is (and) I wish it didn't have to be that way," Burton said. "But I guess it's part of the game.

 

"When you take a 1.5-mile race track and put new pavement on it -- it's fast. That's just the way it's gonna be. It's got so much banking and so much grip there's no way to not make it fast."

 

"They did a great job," Compton said. "But all that being said, it's pretty quick and it's gonna be so hard to race there. It's so fast right now everybody will be afraid to race -- to get outside the groove -- 'cause if you slip up, you're done."

 

At last fall's truck race, Scott Riggs set the track Bud Pole Qualifying record -- more than 1.5 mph faster than the previous year.

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It must be pretty bad if racecar drivers are complaining that it's too fast. :D

 

The late, great, Dale Earnhardt had a saying for guys who thought they were going too fast. :D

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maybe it's just me but  Jeff Burton needs some cheese with all that whine of his,  he complains about everything, and thats why I can't stand him,  he needs to keep his nose out of everything

 

ward has the brains of the family  he keeps his mouth shut most of the time and when he does talk you can't understand him LOL

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I didn't know there was such a thing as too fast.  Strap my butt to a rocket and fire me off at mach 15 and that still wouldn't be fast enough...lol

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