NASCAR Race Mom: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Organizational Test At Phoenix International Raceway

Friday, February 3, 2017

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Organizational Test At Phoenix International Raceway

Teams Leave Phoenix Test Ready To Dissect Data

Teams leave Phoenix test ready to dissect data Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams wrapped up a two-day organizational test at Phoenix Raceway on Wednesday, and now all that data is in the hands of laptop-wielding engineers. Let the deciphering begin. It will be six weeks before teams return to put to use the majority of what was learned here.

Driver Ryan Blaney Reacts in the Garage during NASCAR Testing

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Drives His Car During Testing at Phoenix International Raceway.

AJ Allmendinger driving his #47 during a NASCAR testing at PIR

Newly Retired Driver Carl Edwards looks on during a NASCAR testing at PIR.

Kevin Harvick in the Jimmy John's #4 Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing.

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Driver Erik Jones

Driver Kyle Larson during Testing At Phoenix International Raceway

Joey Logano during a NASCAR testing in Avondale, Arizona

Ty Dillon during a NASCAR testing on January 31, 2017

Rookie Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Driver Daniel Suarez

"On a race weekend we can gather driver feedback but at a place like this we can gather all sorts of measurements on the car," Todd Gordon, crew chief of the No. 22 Ford driven by Joey Logano reported. "We're working through all the pieces that are hard to quantify when you don't have a data system on it.

"That's the biggest part here. I've gone through brake cooling pieces because it's a braking race track. Tire usage and what's going on there. Just gather data that we can bring forward to the next race weekend and look at in our development of the package that we'll come back with."

Here were the best single lap times from the first PIR test session on Wednesday: