Watch Cup Series drivers drive on the newly paved Sonoma Raceway road course for the first time during practice.
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00:00 >> Look at this.
00:01 You're not going to be able to see across there.
00:02 A couple times I've shot across those.
00:05 Right where those sponsored logos are, you turn and just shoot across there because the
00:10 track was blocked.
00:11 Not going to do that any longer.
00:12 >> And the other thing that used to happen is the center of that corner used to flatten
00:15 out.
00:16 So you get the left side tires on that paint.
00:18 I think that's really the reason for the wall is to try to protect the integrity of the
00:22 race line.
00:23 >> We're not moving that, baby.
00:24 >> So that paint would get rubbered up and grippy and all of a sudden that corner would
00:29 become easier.
00:30 Now you have to go above the paint and use the actual racetrack.
00:37 >> Going into the shoot right here.
00:38 You go over the curb.
00:39 >> Dive bomb city.
00:40 Here it comes.
00:41 Turn seven.
00:42 That's where you're going to make your corner.
00:43 You see you open that door up.
00:44 Be careful.
00:45 There's a car behind you.
00:46 He will fill that void.
00:47 >> Gosh, you see him lay the throttle all the way down like that off of turn seven.
00:52 I can't picture that in my head.
00:53 But this new asphalt gives you that grip.
00:56 >> Seeing tank swap getting in over the hill right here.
00:58 the one to get you.