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NASCAR's Gen-6 Car Makes Debut At "Bitter Cold" Daytona

An estimated 60,000 fans “braved bitter cold conditions” to watch last night’s Sprint Unlimited at Daytona. It was 50 degrees when the 75-lap race started and “dropped from there, with the wind howling at times.” In a first for the event, race fans “had a lot input into how the Sprint Unlimited would be raced,” and voted “for the race to be broken into segments of 30, 25 and 20 laps.” They also voted for a four-tire pit stop and not to eliminate cars from the last segment. The race, won by Kevin Harvick, marked the “competitive debut of NASCAR's highly touted Generation-6 stock cars,” which “have a much stronger resemblance to their street-model namesakes” (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 2/17).

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