The second and final day of the seventeen NASCAR Cup Series teams testing the Next Gen automobile at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval took place on Tuesday.
Twenty-one vehicles piloted by twenty-three drivers (a one-particular person magnify from Monday) took to the discover. The shared #19 Joe Gibbs Racing automobile of Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. place the fastest lap time of 1: 18.573, although the number is vastly skewed as the automobile had overlooked a chicane. Hamlin at final moreover took over the 23XI Racing machine from Bubba Wallace, which he co-owns, after his long-established #11 automobile skilled points that steer clear off him from turning laps in time.
Driver roster changes from Monday incorporated Kevin Harvick taking over Stewart-Haas Racing‘s #4 from Inch Briscoe and Aric Almirola with SHR’s #14 from Cole Custer, William Byron utilizing Hendrick Motorsports‘ #5 rather then the duo of Inch Elliott and Kyle Larson, Justin Haley changing A.J. Allmendinger within the #16 of Kaulig Racing, and Team Hezeberg, who had Loris Hezemans fragment the #27 with Jacques Villeneuve. Villeneuve, the 1997 Components One World Champion and a present NASCAR Whelen Euro Series driver admire Hezemans, final raced within the Cup Series at Sonoma in 2013; coincidentally, his Cup début in 2007 came in a #27 automobile for Bill Davis. Alongside with his unsurprisingly spectacular road racing background in birth-wheel vehicles and road ringer place in NASCAR within the early 2010s, Villeneuve helped file the twelfth-most attention-grabbing time. It develop into once not all tender crusing for the Canadian as he bought free re-coming into the oval portion of the discover, but develop into once in a position to hang the automobile off the wall.
One other new team on the grid for 2022 is GMS Racing, whose Ty Dillon posted the slowest time of the twenty-one vehicles but place a quicker tempo than on Monday (1: 24.011 on Tuesday versus 1: 24.143 the day prior).
“It develop into once plenty of fun attending to power the brand new Camaro,” said Dillon. “These items are very like a flash and to boot you are going to even be in actuality aggressive utilizing them. We bought plenty of recordsdata and realized plenty about this new automobile that now we own got to repair system-like a flash-witted, so we’re working in actuality annoying on that. There’s going to be plenty of studying up till subsequent year, but boy, am I furious to power these items paunchy time.”
The next main Next Gen take a look at will select place on 17/18 November on Charlotte’s oval structure, followed by Phoenix Raceway on 14/15 December and Daytona Worldwide Speedway on 11/12 January 2022. Additional such sessions, is conception as organisational assessments, would possibly perchance seemingly select place within the long jog at Martinsville Speedway, an intermediate-size discover equivalent to Kansas Speedway or Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and a Third date that will perchance seemingly either be a road course, World Extensive Technology Raceway at Gateway, or Homestead-Miami Speedway.
NASCAR moreover confirmed tyre assessments at Bowman Gray Stadium, before the Busch Conflict at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Wyche Raceway, in preparation for the Bristol Motor Speedway Dust round. One other tyre take a look at is deliberate at Atlanta Motor Speedway, which is present process a reconfiguration.
Testing outcomes
Space | Amount | Driver | Team | Producer | Perfect Time | Margin | Perfect Escape | Laps |
1 | 19 | Denny Hamlin/Martin Truex Jr. | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 1: 18.573 | Chief | 106.296 | 72 |
2 | 8 | Tyler Reddick | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 1: 21.742 | + 3,169 | 102.175 | 132 |
3 | 4 | Kevin Harvick | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 1: 21.996 | + 3.423 | 101.859 | 95 |
4 | 21 | Austin Cindric | Wood Brothers Racing | Ford | 1: 22.071 | + 3.498 | 101.766 | 83 |
5 | 14 | Aric Almirola | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 1: 22.152 | + 3.579 | 101.665 | 81 |
6 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | Team Penske | Ford | 1: 22.165 | + 3.592 | 101.649 | 97 |
7 | 51 | Joey Hand | Rick Ware Racing | Ford | 1: 22.471 | + 3.898 | 101.272 | 105 |
8 | 22 | Joey Logano | Team Penske | Ford | 1: 22.610 | + 4.037 | 101.102 | 110 |
9 | 99 | Daniel Suárez | Trackhouse Racing Team | Chevrolet | 1: 22.624 | + 4.051 | 101.084 | 38 |
10 | 7 | Corey LaJoie | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 1: 22.649 | + 4.076 | 101.054 | 54 |
11 | 42 | Ross Chastain | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 1: 22.773 | + 4.200 | 100.902 | 79 |
12 | 27 | Jacques Villeneuve/Loris Hezemans | Team Hezeberg | Ford | 1: 22.811 | + 4.238 | 100.856 | 78 |
13 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | JTG Daugherty Racing | Chevrolet | 1: 22.824 | + 4.251 | 100.840 | 89 |
14 | 48 | Alex Bowman | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 1: 22.890 | + 4.317 | 100.760 | 84 |
15 | 5 | William Byron | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 1: 22.940 | + 4.367 | 100.699 | 69 |
16 | 16 | Justin Haley | Kaulig Racing | Chevrolet | 1: 23.182 | + 4.609 | 100.406 | 23 |
17 | 00 | Kaz Grala | StarCom Racing | Chevrolet | 1: 23.292 | + 4.719 | 100.274 | 43 |
18 | 23 | Bubba Wallace/Denny Hamlin | 23XI Racing | Toyota | 1: 23.371 | + 4.798 | 100.179 | 47 |
19 | 43 | Erik Jones | Richard Petty Motorsports | Chevrolet | 1: 23.459 | + 4.886 | 100.073 | 53 |
20 | 17 | Chris Buescher | Roush Fenway Racing | Ford | 1: 23.599 | + 5.026 | 99.906 | 77 |
21 | 94 | Ty Dillon | GMS Racing | Chevrolet | 1: 24.011 | + 5.438 | 99.416 | 50 |
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