Have the common body templates allowed for more passing at restrictor plate venues?
No, but I think the good thing is that it’s made everybody finally shut up about body styles being uneven. They’re all the same now, and whoever wins the race will have won because their team did a better job and their driver did a better job then the next group of guys. Drivers at Daytona will complain of an aero push while racing in traffic. What exactly is an aero push? You have two types of balance on your race car. You have mechanical balance and aero balance. Your mechanical balance is comprised of springs, shocks, sway bars and suspension pieces. Your aero balance relates to the total aerodynamics of the car — how the air flows over the top of the race car and how it creates downforce in different areas. If you’re running with a car right in front of you, you don’t have the air hitting the front of your car as you would if you were running in clean air, where there’s no one in front of you. When someone is in front of you and you’re not getting that air pushing down on the fron
