Edwards In Favor of Testing Ban Contract
FanHouse —
by Geoffrey Miller Filed under: Carl Edwards, Roush Fenway Racing, Sprint CupAs this oh-so-creative writer from the St. Petersburg Times put it, Carl Edwards is "bringing out his inner-Allen Iverson" with talk of a self-imposed testing ban and a limit for practice on Sprint Cup race weekends. [Edwards] said a contract is circulating among teams that would impose a self-ban on testing. The deal would go beyond NASCAR's one-year moratorium at venues that host races in the top three series. ...
Carl Edwards wants to show up, race, win, flip, leave
From the Marbles —
So with the ban on testing shortly to come into effect, at least one driver is thinking, "Hey, why not make this a permanent deal?" Carl Edwards is harkening back to the old show-up-and-throw-the-green days of yore: "As long as everyone does the same thing, I mean, hell, what does everyone need all this practice for? ... This is NASCAR Sprint Cup racing. We all know how to race. We've all been to these tracks before. Maybe you do a deal where guys who haven't been there before, they get a few hours of practice." ...
