Tony Stewart hit the track at Winston-Salem’s Bowman Gray stadium on Tuesday to test how NASCAR’s Next Gen Cup Series car performs on a short track.
Bowman Gray’s track has hosted over 1,000 NASCAR-sanctioned events.
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The dual-use facility has a football field surrounded by a paved quarter-mile stock car racing track that’s the same length as the temporary one NASCAR is building at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for next February’s pre-season Clash exhibition race.
Stewart was evaluating tires for Goodyear behind the wheel of one of the generic bodied Next Gen prototypes, rather than one of his Stewart-Haas Ford Mustangs, and can be seen thundering around the track in video posted by a spectator to social media.
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The Next Gen car’s next test is scheduled for Wythe Raceway’s half-mile dirt track in Virginia, which should provide insight into how it will do at the Bristol Motor Speedway dirt race next year.
