Chicagoland Testing UPDATE: #6-Mark Martin, #99-Jeff Burton, #97-Kurt Busch, #17-Matt Kenseth, #21-Elliott Sadler and #2-Rusty Wallace were among a group of teams at Chicagoland Speedway this week testing for the inaugural Winston Cup event there on July 15.(That’s Racin’)(6-13-2001) UPDATE: The Roush Racing teams spent Monday and Tuesday of this week testing at the new Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, IN, just 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Roush drivers Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin, Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle were some of the first drivers to test out the new speedway. Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 DEWALT Ford, ran the fastest lap during Monday’s test session. The 1.5-mile track has 18 degree banking in the corners, an 11 degree frontstretch and a five degree backstretch. With dimensions like these, Kenseth and crew chief Robbie Reiser knew they would dealing with high speeds. “The track feels like Vegas on some parts but it’s fast like Texas,” said Kenseth. “We got up into the high 190’s at one point during testing.” Despite being the fastest Roush car on the track, the goal of the DEWALT team was not speed. “We ran really good but we didn’t work on making the car fast, we worked on handling,” said crew chief Robbie Reiser. “We ran a total of 350 miles and made 32 changes. We worked on a lot of different set-ups. We changed out spindles and shocks and a couple other things to see how it would respond on the track.”(Roush Racing)(6-15-2001)
