Found October 18, 2012 on Speedway Digest - Home for NASCAR News: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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Today rain has delayed the two-day NASCAR Sprint Cup Series test session at the newly reconfigured Kansas Speedway in preparation for the Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday.Labonte, who is racing with the Kingsford Charcoal brand on his No. 47 Toyota Camry, is turning his first laps on the repaved surface now during the shortened test session. Tomorrow cars will return to the track for the second session scheduled 8:30 to 12:30 p.m. Central.“This is my first time on the new surface and from the people I have talked to and what I had read, the track is pretty smooth with progressive banking,” Labonte said. “It’s good that we will have a couple days of testing. The time is so valuable to us because we do not have many opportunities like this.”Labonte believes the track will have a different feel for the 267-lap race that was won by Denny Hamlin in April. “After practice and qualifying the track will probably change some,” Labonte said. “I feel like it will be like Michigan. David Green ca...
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