It’s time for NASCAR to hit the road course
(MCT) — Stock cars are rumbling, 850-horsepower monsters built to go real fast and turn left around oval tracks. But this weekend, those bulky machines leave their natural habitat.
NASCAR drivers will weave through a narrow, serpentine road course in the brown hills of Sonoma wine country — something the cars really weren’t designed to do.
And that’s why the annual trip to Northern California has become one of NASCAR’s toughest challenges.
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