Hendrick Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc., are working together to develop a new nose piece for the Chevy to give it more downforce and offset Ford’s advantage. The nosepiece will be put on a downforce car and taken to the General Motors wind tunnel in Michigan on Wednesday. A nosepiece will be put on a superspeedway car and taken to the same wind tunnel a week later. So, any rules change probably wouldn’t happen until Darlington at the earliest(Roanoke Times)(3-6-2000) — UPDATE Chevy Help: NASCAR is allowing a two-inch extension in the front air dam for the Monte Carlos, effective this weekend at Atlanta(SpeedVision) and a story at That’s Racin'(3-7-2000)
