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How I would solve the testing problem
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I mean what in the heck is going on in the world? This is 2008 not the 1700s, yet we have pirates hijacking ships in the ocean. It just shows how crazy the world is right now and how upside down everything is. It really makes me nervous and shakes my confidence. It just seems like the things you could always count on are starting to change or their livelihood comes into question.
I would hate to be a CEO of any company right now, NASCAR included. Obviously, nobody has a crystal ball and you have all these so-called experts like congressmen telling Detroit how to build cars. But that's not what this story is about.
If I were NASCAR and the teams, I would come together and pick one track as their official test facility. So for example let's say they all come together and choose Lowe's Motor Speedway and decide they can test there anytime they want. Well let's just use a little common sense here despite the fact that sometimes it doesn't look like anyone has any of that.
If there are 50 teams in the Charlotte area and if travel, per diem, hotel rooms, rental cars, plane fuel, etc could be eliminated and still have some testing, well that seems like a good solution. It would seem to be one of those blind obvious things. I mean they've got the track right there in everyone's backyard. It's a 1.5-mile track and the majority of the tracks on the circuit are 1.5-milers.
So why travel all over the country when you have that track laying right there waiting to be used? What got me thinking about it was at one time there was talk that Jack Roush was going to build a test track and now there is talk about buying North Wilkesboro and revitalizing it to use as a test track and going down to Rockingham.
So my question was, "Why?" Why spend all that money when Lowe's Motor Speedway is sitting right there ready to be used. In addition to all that, the NASCAR R&D center is right over there past the track by the Concord Airport where the cars get certified. Instead of traveling all over the country, is there any simpler solution than just using the track in your backyard?
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Surely I am not the only one who has thought of it. But is sure seems like a logical solution in that it eliminates major costs, it allows the teams to continue testing plus it also allows NASCAR and the teams to review data to continue helping the COT evolve, which will hopefully create better racing. Let the teams go to Lowe's Motor Speedway and test any and every day they want. The teams are there. NASCAR is there. Problem solved.
Oh, by the way
Did you find it as interesting as I did during the congressional hearings about the bailout for the auto manufacturers that it was pointed out that they flew from Detroit to Washington in their private jets, got off the plane in their three-piece suits and were brought to Capitol Hill in their limos but then sat down holding out a tin cup asking for it to be filled with $25 billion?
That's pretty prophetic, don't you think? No wait, maybe it's prophetic or maybe better, it's pathetic. I let you be the judge.
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