NASCAR has heard the complaints and will head to the wind tunnel to test its cars. The decision comes with General Motors teams griping and the Daytona 500 producing only four on-track passes for the lead in 200 laps. Even before Dale Jarrett led a top-five sweep by Ford on Sunday, the Chevrolet and Pontiac teams contended that the aerodynamics leave them at a disadvantage. Kevin Triplett, NASCAR’s operations director, said Monday the sanctioning body is trying to reserve testing time at Lockheed’s wind tunnel in Marietta, Ga. NASCAR measured horsepower on six cars after the race, then impounded three of them. Jarrett’s #88 Ford, the #22 Pontiac of Ward Burton and the #31 Chevy of Mike Skinner will go to the wind tunnel. The #88 car was put into Daytona USA as the team must give up the winning car for a year in exchange for $100,000, but NASCAR said the #88 car still will be taken to the wind tunnel. The car will be returned to the display in the exact condition as it won the race(Infobeat Newsletter/AP)(2-21-2000)
