#8-Mark Martin said it was “idiotic” for NASCAR to only allow drivers to do single-car runs on the first day of testing at Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR does not permit drivers to practice drafting in packs – and thus race conditions – on the first day, meaning Monday is a long day of cars running by themselves around the mammoth 2.5-mile speedway. Drivers expect that NASCAR will allow drafting beginning on Tuesday afternoon. “I feel that we’re wasting our time with single-car runs,” Martin said during the lunch break on Monday. “We should be drafting already, but it is what it is. We do get to start drafting tomorrow afternoon, so that’s half a day sooner than we might have. Once we start drafting, we’re really working on racing. The rest of this stuff is idiotic, with the [questions between driver and team]: ‘Does this help? Not help? Is that faster? Is it not faster? Can you tell anything?’ That’s what we’re doing right now.”(SceneDaily.com)(1-8-2008)
