Toyota/Save Mart 350 Infineon Raceway 2011 Practice Day

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Infineon Raceway 2011 Photos and Stories.

2011-06-24 - 2011-06-26
Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma County, California, USA<

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Infineon Raceway 2011 Practice Day

NASCAR runs two events on road courses.
AND
Infineon is the most challenging.

YOU GOTA BE THERE!

The Sprint Cup Series makes its annual visit to Wine Country for the race at Infineon Raceway. Infineon and Watkins Glen are two road race courses, that the hard pounding NASCAR teams run, and Infineon is rated the most difficult to negotiate.

The obvious difference between oval and road course racing is the left and right turning of the road course with slow speed corners thrown in for good measure. 3 wide is not a thing one will see on most road courses but tire to tire banging is.

There is some talk about adding more road course into the NASCAR series of races. There are groups of fans, both for and against, and each group have good points about keeping things as is and for making the change.

The best point brought out from the 'oval' group is the high speed that the oval cars can bring to the fans. Not to mention the 3-wide cornering at over 100 MPH. This is good stuff and no other form of racing will create this kind of visual excitement.

The point which the 'road course' group leans on is that the slower corners can bunch up the cars and give the fans some of that door-to-door banging that the new NASCAR Official Designed car has taken away.

How come no one has mentioned adding a new concept to this discussion and let the boys run on the High Banks of Daytona, but do the infield section also. That may be just the new buz that the race series needs.

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