In a Tuesday morning appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller said that officials are awaiting a full report from the June 30 crash test at Talladega Superspeedway.
“There‘s a lot of fiction out there,” Miller said, “and what everyone has to realize is that our normal safety testing procedure at the laboratory, so to speak, the proving grounds where we typically set up our impacts and get the data, that was done differently because of COVID, because of the backlog at that facility, so we went and we did that test at Talladega — at a real race track.”
(See previous: NASCAR Sends Memo to Drivers About Next Gen Crash Test at Talladega)
Miller provided a point-blank answer when asked if the car‘s competition debut at Daytona in 2022 was still on schedule as planned. “Absolutely,” he said.
— NASCAR.com —
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— SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Ch. 90) (@SiriusXMNASCAR) July 13, 2021
