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According to NASCAR, the restart zone for this weekend's racing activities at Dover International Speedway has been doubled from 70 feet to 140 feet.
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| This photo is of Jeff Gordon celebrating his 92nd- career Sprint Cup Series victory in the CHASE race at Dover last season. Gordon was involved in a hot restart topic after an incident at Chicagoland Speedway two weekends ago. (PHOTO: Getty Images) |
NASCAR will also expand the restart zone for all tracks after Dover this season. The restart zone's new length at each of those tracks will be determined by an at-track basis.
Restart rules will remain in tact, however, no changes will be made.
Restarts have been a hot topic in NASCAR recently. At Chicagoland Speedway two weekends ago, Jeff Gordon was not penalized aftwer what many people thought was him jumping a restart. The next weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Brad Keselowski was also under suspicion of jumping a restart. NASCAR had decided he did, and he was penalized.
"I think drivers want longer restart zone," said Denny Hamlin earlier last month at CHASE Media Day. "Ultimately now it's so short that if you don't go right away the second-place guy does and knowing that he can beat the first-place guy to the line ... I think it would be better to open that zone up two, three times the size of it right now."
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