{"id":941815,"date":"2026-10-22T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:52:28","slug":"nascars-new-superspeedway-package-puts-cars-closer-to-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941815\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR’s new superspeedway package puts cars ‘closer to the edge’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The revised superspeedway package NASCAR\u00a0<\/a>debuted at Daytona in August will be in effect again this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.<\/p>\n

While the horsepower (465) will stay the same as it was at Daytona, the spoilers on each NASCAR Cup Series car will be reduced to 3.5 inches from 4 in an effort to reduce drag and afford drivers the opportunity to move around more in the pack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an effort to reduce the amount of fuel-mileage racing, NASCAR will keep the same stage lengths it used in the April 26 Cup race at Talladega of 98, 45 and 45 laps, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpect more wide-open racing at Talladega<\/p>\n

“There is certainly a substantial change made,” said Billy Scott, crew chief for the No. 45 23XI Racing team and driver Tyler Reddick, speaking Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.\u00a0<\/a>“I think they did a pretty good job of getting to a point where we could correct it where it didn’t need a test session and didn’t have to go through elaborate changes to get there, that we were able to make enough adjustments going into the weekend at Daytona.<\/p>\n

“Throughout that race, we did have a decent-handling car, but it’s a lot closer to the edge. Daytona was at night, so we had some of the coolness to offset the handling side of it a little bit, but it was borderline. We saw some wrecks that happened just from people not even getting a push.”<\/p>\n

Scott also said that he thinks most of Sunday’s race will be spent with drivers at full-throttle rather than saving fuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It is gonna be a lot different [of] a race than we’ve seen at Talladega over the past few years,” Scott said.<\/p>\n

That unpredictability could make for a wild afternoon at the Alabama superspeedway, particularly in regard to the Chase. The top-seven drivers in the Cup standings enter the 34th race of the season separated by only five points with three races to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The revised superspeedway package NASCAR\u00a0debuted at Daytona in August will be in effect again this weekend at Talladega…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-941815","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\/941815","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=941815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}