{"id":594550,"date":"2026-04-10T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594550\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:20:17","slug":"joey-logano-fired-up-to-see-how-the-increased-horsepower-affects-racing-at-spring-nascar-bristol-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594550\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Logano fired up to see how the increased horsepower affects racing at spring NASCAR Bristol race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new 750-horsepower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series short track package will make its Bristol Motor Speedway debut on Sunday. Just how much will the additional horsepower affect the racing at Bristol? <\/p>\n<p>Joey Logano addressed the topic while speaking Thursday with Jeff Gluck of The Athletic. According to Logano, don\u2019t expect to see something out of this world. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will some, I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s gonna be huge,\u201d Logano said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kO8SHcT7psk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gluckcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>On top of the 750-horsepower package, Goodyear has developed what they believe to be a softer tire for the spring race at Bristol. The tire was developed from the November test at the 0.533-mile oval, which Bubba Wallace, Alex Bowman, and Ryan Preece took part in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe objective at our Bristol tire test in November was to develop a setup that is less temperature dependent at laying rubber down,\u201d said Justin Fantozzi, Goodyear director of racing, via <a href=\"https:\/\/speedwaymedia.com\/2026\/04\/09\/with-horsepower-increase-to-750-cup-series-teams-ready-to-rumble-at-tradition-rich-food-city-500-on-fabled-bristol-concrete-high-banks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpeedwayMedia.com<\/a>. \u201cWe heard loudly from the teams about variations in weather between practice and race conditions, and the need for a tire solution to address this. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe track took rubber in November under rather cold temperatures, and again at the March OEM Wheel Force test. Our development team did a great job, and we are very pleased to be heading into the weekend with this new package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR hopeful for better on-track product at Bristol<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR is hoping that the combination of more horsepower and softer tires will enhance the on-track product at Bristol. Logano is hopeful that some different line options previously unavailable in the Next Gen car will come back into play. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible it changes the way you drive the car a little bit at the line, especially if you move up top, it\u2019s possible that it brings some different line options back into play that haven\u2019t been available for the Next Gen car,\u201d Logano said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that\u2019s the case, personally, because I think it promotes a little better racing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, hopefully that\u2019s the case, but gosh, it\u2019s hard to say, right? I don\u2019t think the horsepower would be massive, but it will affect us some.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new 750-horsepower NASCAR Cup Series short track package will make its Bristol Motor Speedway debut on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-594550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}