Quote Originally Posted by Kolin Aspegren View Post
I have never heard of a test day at Daytona, you could run the ecr as a test if you have never been there. For the national there are 2 qual sessions so that might be enough for quick learners.
My issue is not with the track; I've raced there plenty in the last 10 years.

I just didn't want to debut a car with a new motor, new brakes, new cooling system, new suspension, etc., without having run the car at any length before. Daytona is obviously the track that keeps a motor at max RPM for the longest period of time of any track I normally run. That, plus an unproven gearbox and new 5.12 diff just makes for a lot of things to worry about. I was just hoping to have some time to ease into things and build speed slowly. Typically on that weekend we'll have one 15 min practice and one 20 min qualifying session and that's it prior to the race. Not really enough time to run the car in, be able to check the car over and deal with any issues. Also, that schedule may be compressed into one day instead of two which further complicates things.