Definitely don't change the Indy 500, lights might just be nice for Nascar to make their race a little bit different and get the fans out of the heat of the sun. Could always do some Indy practice at night just for the hell of it. How about the Indy cars go back there a second time later in the year and race the road course at night? That could be a hit.
The Glen is super smooth anyway, I've done track days there. I think they want to repave because they've had problems off and on with parts of the track coming up, I know the turn coming out of the boot was falling apart during the Grand Am race last month.
My run of 3 races in 4 weekends starts in a couple days. Going to Pocono, the Glen, and Bristol. My brother was going to try for number 4 at Atlanta the weekend after Bristol, but last I heard the wife was shutting that down haha.
haha I'm just going to be going to Bristol I got our seats changed to E-21 on the front straight (just past the s/f line on the turn 1 side). Much better seats there and just about the perfect height
Yup. That storm was ridiculous, we knew it was coming though so we were packed up and ready to go when it started raining, sucks about the lightning strikes though. I do actually remember one huge strike going off right in front of us when we were in line to get out of the infield, that was over by gate 3 where they said the person got killed.
That's crazy if that's what it was like over in the main parking lots, we couldn't really see over there because it was raining so hard so I didn't know there was that much lightning.
it sounds like NASCAR is moving in the direction of putting softer tires on the cars for 2013. They even took 100lbs out of the right side of the car at yesterday's Martinsville test in order to run a softer tire. Also, I beleive that they will be making the spoiler smaller as well as the downforce on the front end if they find ways of doing it.
It sounds like NASCAR knows the problems that have plagued the racing this year and will make an attempt to fix it