Winston Cup drivers won’t be allowed to test their cars on the new banking at Homestead-Miami Speedway until the week of the season finale, but they will be able to race the new course on a new computer-program simulator being developed for NASCAR’s stock-car teams by Electronic Arts. “This will be the first time ever that the teams will be able to set up a race car on a computer on a track that was computer built – so you can set up a car for a track while that track is still dirt,” said Curtis Gray, who runs the track for Bill France Jr.’s International Speedway Corporation. “Or at least it’s a good starting point.” NASCAR officials spent time at Homestead last week to review progress on the track’s reconstruction. Gray said the project, which began in May, ‘is right on schedule. In the first five days we had the whole track torn apart, and it took them 22 days to build the actual dirt banking, 55 feet wide.'( Winston Salem Journal )(7-6-2003)
