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FOXSports.com's Larry McReynolds fires up his webcam to preview the NASCAR Banking 500. Find out what makes the race at Lowe's Motor Speedway special.
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" Auto club speedway in the -- race number four of the ten races in the chase we now move. To Lowe's Motor Speedway and this is kind of a home game for most of the drivers in most of the teams. About seventy. 8080 I proceed. Of the Sprint Cup Series teams in the Nationwide Series team for that matter -- actually on Friday night. Are located within about a hundred mile radius of Lowe's Motor Speedway in actually. It's like the good news bad news or close to home the good news is we're close to home we get to spend time with there mainly get to sleep in Rome -- In actually for most of the teams in most of the crew members their families their wives their girlfriends. Their children they get to come out of the racetrack. Is this the only night race. In the chase it is the only Saturday night race in the chase it's a 500 mile race in its own his mama half. Kind of a quad oval racetrack in this track exodus 24 degrees of banking -- that's a lot more banking. Then the last two races we just went to Kansas Speedway and auto club speedway. So you still -- handling issues at this moment and a racetrack when you have a lot more thinking. The Hogan car when you drop in the corner a lot like the last two weeks -- over 200 miles an hour eating into the corner. Now who's the favorite at Lowe's Motor Speedway. If you look back at the races we register twice a year once in -- for the Coca-Cola 600 once in the follow the 500 calories. And we'd go to their two times a year for a number of years but when you look back it 2003 to 2000. Oh yeah Jimmie Johnson -- announce the 48 team. They England of those six races in three years here so there's no question. They would have to be a favor but let me say this when you look back at the last thirteen fall races. At Lowe's Motor Speedway. We've actually had eleven different winners the only driver the only teams to win their more than what's in the last thirteen races. Jimmie Johnson won twice in his teammate Jeff Gordon in Detroit fourteen they actually won there twice. Now there's a lot of elements of that this race. It's nine is already starting to really cool off here in the Charlotte, North Carolina area in this track here. Probably. More so than any of the other point one racetracks we go to. Is very susceptible to temperature changes when it cools down especially the nighttime. It really gains a lot of real. It really picks up a lot of speed in and make a lot -- power but because -- running around this mountaineer racetrack especially at night so fast. Definitely he fights and listening things that you thought that our race tracks. If we break the corner down to the inference in the middle and exit in the two and are quite a bit different just because of the way you drop into the corner from the fracture in the turn run. And down the backstretch into turn three. But normally what these cars and these things will fight. At Lowe's Motor Speedway and interest of the corner is the -- willing to be a little bit loose it's one of those -- where you really. Keep it out against the wall in the arc in the corner. In because of the speeds are really will get loose. You know when you get to the middle of the corner. The thing that really five years is heeding this call or two term didn't take us there and not -- the front wheels especially when you pick the problem. The only exit of the corners a lot. Kansas and a lot like auto club speedway you've got a combination of things sometimes you were to get the car. Turning soak in the middle of the corner you actually had to turn into good only exit in it needs to get loose. And and sometimes it's won't turn in the middle. And that type this there push continues only to that the cooler in all you can do to make it turn is is slow the speed of the car -- And let it take a step let the front wheels grip in the and you can go -- what that does then he's long straightaway it is absolutely kills -- speed of the car. You know another thing that we always have they hear it seems like we sometimes have cautions in the beginning. In a lot like the auto club speedway -- bases we get to the closing stages of this 500 mile race will have cautions that the Ian. But we definitely will get into some long green runs especially in the middle of the race so we certainly. You have to think about strategy have to think about fuel mileage. In in you never know. This may be one of those races especially with the Harris having more grip that night with cooler temperatures -- some of these crew Chiefs may roll the dice. In -- change to -- not terrible pit stop. Just attracting. -- track position."
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