USAC Silver Crown cars testing at Darlington Speedway March 1, 2007
You lie on the ground to work on these engines
Matt Neely on his "space ship"
Matt Neely
The USAC Silver Crown car of Wayne Reutimann
The huge tail cone is empty excepy for the crash absorbing material inside.
The red wall is the back of the fuel cell, which is well within the body of the car.
Mike Murgoitio tests the shocks, which run horizontal under his foot
It's almost worth running second.
Have helmet....will race. Mike Murgoitio
The "Print Express" driven b y Mike Murgoitio
Mike Murgoitio
Jerry Coons
Mike Murgoitio gets ready to test the Hoosier tires at Darlington
Jerry Coons is interviewed by the TV folks
It's all about air
Yes folks, it's a catapillar.
Hoosier looks at Matt Neely's tires
USAC last ran "Champ Cars" at Darlington over 50 years ago, with disastrous results.
Brian Tyler was looking the limit....he found it.
After putting his mark on the wall he slide down the bank and stopped
Couldn't be too bad, Brian brought the car back
Looking for pieces. But, there wasn't any, it was a pretty clean hit.
These cars slide a long ways.
Aaron Pierce
The Bush car Victory Lane at turn 4 Darlington
owner of LuvRacin, Roger Bathe is shown working.
The WIS TV crew was on hand
Brian Tyler was the first car on the track, the first to hit the wall...I'd bet on him to finish first!
Brian Tyler
The fierce looking Cat car. the two holes on the sides are for the brakes. The center one is for the starter motor shaft to go in, the middle slot is for engine cooling, the "V" slot in the hood is for massive amounts of air to feed this monster.
Tires...tires...that's what the day was all about
Hoosier tire people were all over these cars checking on the their tires
The threat of rain...which did finnaly come.
