Chase Elliott (9) and his father Bill Elliott (5) put up the fastest laps in afternoon practice for the NASCAR Nationwide Series during Saturday’s Preseason Thunder session at Daytona International Speedway. Photo courtesy Chase Elliott.com
Two of Dawsonville, Georgia’s favorite racing sons paced Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR Nationwide Series test session at Daytona International Speedway.
Fifty-eight year old Bill Elliott, his 18-year-old son Chase Elliott and teammate Regan Smith put JR Motorsports on top of the afternoon speed charts at the World’s Center of Speed.
Chase Elliott paced the three-car JRM train at 187.993 mph, with his father at 187.974 mph and Smith at 187.950 mph.
Nationwide teams spent considerably more time in drafting practice than their Sprint Cup counterparts had done a day earlier. The largest pack in Saturday’s action included nine cars.
What was missing was the tandem style racing that has dominated Nationwide plate racing in recent years.
What a new Nationwide Series competition package can’t accomplish, as far as tandem drafting is concerned, NASCAR will govern by edict.
Both the sanctioning body and the NNS drivers believe a shorter spoiler and a new cooling package, both mandated for superspeedways this year, will minimize two-car hookups with one car pushing another.
Beyond that, NASCAR informed Nationwide teams in an October meeting that locking bumpers in a tandem draft will be policed and prohibited.
“They made it very clear, that if we tandem at all, both cars will be black-flagged,” driver Elliott Sadler said Saturday.
NASCAR’s purpose in legislating against tandem drafting is an attempt to diminish the possibility of last-lap melees exacerbated by two-car hookups in which the trailing car is driving blind.
NASCAR Nationwide Series
Daytona International Speedway – Daytona Beach, FL
Afternoon Test Results – Jan. 12, 2014
No. Name Make Laps Best Tm Best Speed
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5 Bill Elliott Chv 65 47.879 187.974
7 Regan Smith Chv 55 47.885 187.950
3 Ty Dillon Chv 76 47.922 187.805
6 Trevor Bayne Frd 57 47.938 187.743
98 David Ragan Frd 25 47.997 187.512
60 Chris Buescher Frd 49 48.026 187.398
32 Kyle Larson Chv 60 48.066 187.243
31 Dylan Kwasniewski Chv 61 48.112 187.064
55 Jamie Dick Chv 39 48.138 186.962
2 Brian Scott Chv 53 48.172 186.831
43 Dakoda Armstrong Frd 57 48.178 186.807
99 James Buescher Tyt 55 48.203 186.710
16 Ryan Reed Frd 52 48.216 186.660
62 Brendan Gaughan Chv 36 48.232 186.598
85 Bobby Gerhart Chv 30 48.818 184.358
17 Tanner Berryhill Tyt 28 49.269 182.671
23 Ryan Ellis Frd 30 49.716 181.028
22 Ryan Blaney Frd 22 50.025 179.910
11 Elliott Sadler Tyt 27 50.041 179.853
84 Chad Boat Chv 27 50.474 178.310
13 Harrison Rhodes Dge 15 51.425 175.012
28 Matt Carter Dge 4 51.631 174.314
52 Joey Gase Tyt 11 51.834 173.631
73 Derrike Cope Chv 11 52.162 172.539
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