Kimball: Pocono race will be about balance, not power

Via Motorsport.com

Charlie Kimball is expecting that this year’s ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway will put greater importance on the handling of the car, largely thanks to the addition of the domed skids on superspeedways.

The Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet driver, who completed over 100 laps of Pocono’s tri-oval in testing today, told Motorsport.com: “My impression from watching times today was that the engines were less of a factor than aero balance. Early in the afternoon, the wind picked up and the track got greasy and the cars were a handful.

“If you were good in those conditions then when it cooled off you just got quicker and quicker. So if you didn’t get your setup right, if you didn’t have good balance in the car, that was what determined lap speeds, rather than it being a manufacturer battle between Chevrolet and Honda.”

Kimball, said that the domed skid plates, which are a safety measure to severely slow a spinning car on the superspeedways, were having a greater effect on handling at Pocono than at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where they were introduced this past May.

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