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NASCAR on Wednesday announced a
½-inch increase to the front air dam and ¼ inch rear spoiler
increase for the Pontiac Grand Prix beginning with this
weekend's race at Michigan.
The leading edge of the air dam for the Pontiacs now must
not extend more than one (1) inch forward of the bumper.
Measurements for the rear spoiler will now read at 7 1/8
inches high by 57 inches wide (prior to this, the rear
spoiler
measured at 6 7/8 inches high by 57 inches wide). This
dimension will not be
used at Daytona or Talladega. Officials also reduced the
spoiler size on the
Ford Taurus from 6 inches to 5-7/8 inches for next month's
Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway. During the
Daytona 500 in February, the Ford's rear spoiler was 5 ¾
inches tall and in April at Talladega, Ford's measurements
were 6 inches tall. The Chevrolet and Dodge teams rear
spoiler will remain at 6 ¼ inches tall, while the Pontiac
teams will measure at 6 ½ inches tall by 57 inches wide.
After 14 races, Pontiac's five top teams have amassed 973
(about 13
percent) less owner points in 2002 vs. the 2001 season. Tony
Stewart's #20 team has held its own while every other
Pontiac team has scored less points.
Comparison in Pontiac Owner Points
>From 2002 vs. 2001 (After 14 Races)
Team 2002 2001 Difference
#20 1820 1791 +29
#18 1415 1613 -198
#10 1272 1755 -483
#36 1117 1391 -274
#14 1017 1064 -47
Total 6641 7614 -973
#10 Valvoline Pontiac Driver Johnny Benson:
"Its a step in the right direction by NASCAR that I hope
makes the Pontiacs a
little more competitive. They are really hard to drive right
now. If you can
get a Pontiac running by itself on the track then it is
semi-Ok but once you
get it into traffic it is just terrible. The Pontiac won't
turn and it slides
all over the race track and that's because there isn't
enough downforce. All
the Pontiac drivers say the same thing. Now, all the makes
claim they don't
have enough downforce but they have an inch-and-a-half more
front nose kick out than the Pontiac does so you can see the
Pontiac is hurting in that area.
"I ran this style Pontiac in 1996 so its a good car but an
old car. Sure we
are looking forward to the new model in 2003 but until then
we just have to get
through the rest of this season with the car that we have.
Getting some help is
a positive for the Pontiacs. It's been close to a year since
we have had a rule
change where the other makes seem to get changes right away.
So, this is
pleasing that we get a rule change that gets us closer to
where the other cars
are. We don't want an advantage we just want to be able to
compete with the
other makes."
Crew Chief James Ince:
"This is definitely a step in the right direction. It's not
as much as we
needed to get but anything is more than we had. We have such
a bad race car
compared to where the other makes are that we aren't going
to complain too
loudly. I don't feel it is enough, but everybody else in the
world is going to
complain that it is too much. We aren't going to look a gift
horse in the mouth
but is still not as much as we need. The biggest problem we
have had from last
year to this year is that while everyone else has gotten
rule changes we
haven't changed our cars. When the Dodges got the front kick
out on their noses at Indy last year and when everybody else
got their change at the end of the year for whatever reason
in traffic now our cars are dramatically different. We just
cannot make our cars work like we could make them work in
the past.
"Everything we were able to do last year we can't use any
more. Hopefully this
will move us in the right direction and in the dirty air our
cars will be better. An airplane flies a lot better on a
sunshiny day than in a thunderstorm and what we have been
racing in all year is a thunderstorm."
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