Tuesday’s Goodyear tire test at New Hampshire Motor Speedway featured a trio of Championship 4 hopefuls in Christopher Bell, Ross Chastain and defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano representing Toyota, Chevrolet and Ford, respectively. The session at its core was a full day (with more testing on Wednesday) of logging data and giving feedback, with implications that may not be felt initially, but could come to fruition in just under two months.
Each already locked into this year’s NASCAR Playoffs but at different points in their championship quests, the three participants got an early leg up at a postseason puzzle they’ll be trying to decode as NHMS re-enters the equation as a track along the championship path in the Round of 12, deeper into the playoffs than it had historically been. This season will be the first the “Magic Mile” has been in the playoffs since 2017.
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