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PETTY: Tradin’ Paint at Daytona with Holly Cain
John Roberts and Kyle Petty with special guest Holly Cain at Daytona International Speedway...
Kyle Petty  |  Posted July 07, 2008   Daytona Beach, Fla.
Fanhouse.com's Holly Cain. (Image: SPEED)

SPEED's John Roberts and Kyle Petty with special guest Holly Cain from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

John Roberts: "Years ago in NASCAR you were allowed to go out and test wherever you wanted as many times as you wanted but then they restricted it to seven tests per year at certain race tracks, but that does not stop teams from going out and testing at race tracks where they do not have a Sprint Cup event. Holly, we hear from these crew members they are stretched to the limits, if you let these guys do it, they will test 52 weeks a year."

Holly Cain (Seattle Post-Intelligencer): "I know it. I actually find it pretty incredible they are considering just opening everything up with the economy right now, that doesn’t make sense to me. I think there has to be a good middle ground on that and actually Greg Biffle had a good idea yesterday. He said still give us seven dates or five dates or whatever it is per operation, not per car. And let us pick wherever we want to go instead of NASCAR dictating these are the tracks you have to go to. Give us a set amount of dates and let’s do that. Because if you just start letting everybody go and it is just going to do, the haves will have more and have-nots will do more have- notting."

Kyle Petty: "I still say open it up, sorry, but I say open it up under a restricted covenant. What I mean by that I would like to see them open up Thursdays and Mondays, because I’m already paying for a hotel room for my team here on Thursday night so I just fly out on Thursday morning. And test from 12:00 to 5:00 that afternoon. That’s an open day for me. My guys are coming in. My hotel rooms are already booked, and my planes are already there, I am already paying you for a day. What kills us is team owners from an expense standpoint is having to fly to Milwaukee and fly back and we don’t even race in Milwaukee, fly to Lakeland and back, we don't race there. Those tests absolutely kill us, or testing at Daytona and racing in Chicago next week. Or testing in Chicago then racing somewhere. That kills you, but if we could just come in here on a Thursday afternoon and test in the afternoon session, I think Michael floated it and a couple of other people have from a financial standpoint it really doesn’t add any expense except your tire bill and whatever you got engine-wise on that motor because you will bring your teams, they are traveling on Friday. You aren’t putting any more work on them, maybe half a day or more. So I would like to see something like that and open it up. That does not separate the haves and have-nots. We are all equal here on a Thursday afternoon. We can run POS Systems, Data Systems, Motech, whatever we want to do and then we just go into our race mode on Friday. That would be a better way, or stay over on Monday, okay, when the race track is rubbered up and you have a good race track and that’s a true test. The problem is we don’t test. No matter how much people say we test, we don’t test. We just go and set up for races. So all you are doing is adding another race day."

John Roberts: "Something to keep an eye on as the testing debate will continue to go on through the rest of this year."

SOURCE: SPEED/Edited by Michael Pomeroy and Steve Keller

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