Michael McDowell on return to Indy oval: ‘Experience will still apply’

Michael McDowell talks about the Cup Series' return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval and how experience will still shine in the Next Gen era.

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00:00So even though it's our first time here with the Next Gen car, I do think that

00:07experience racing on the Oval will still help. Not everything applies, but just the

00:14visual references that you have, the bumps, there's a few little things

00:19here that you do that you don't do anywhere else, and I think that they'll

00:24still apply. So I do think that there's an advantage to having run multiple

00:29races here. And then, too, for those most of those guys that have run races like

00:35myself, you got to remember we've done it in every configuration, from old car to

00:41COT to high downforce to no downforce to 1,000 horsepower to 450 to 650, 550, 750

00:50in between, to tires only lasting five laps, to long green flag runs, to stages,

00:56right? So you have experience in a lot of different settings here over those 15

01:02years. So even though the Next Gen is different, I feel like that experience

01:06will still apply.