William Byron claims it is ‘pointless to have practice’ sessions in Talladega  

William Byron claims it is ‘pointless to have practice’ sessions in Talladega  

William Byron

NASCAR will hit the Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday for the GEICO 500 and the entire NASCAR community is waiting to see a chaotic race in the 2.66mile, one of the most challenging tracks on the schedule. The chaotic overtime finish to the Xfinity Series on Saturday has given fans more hope for a challenging and competitive race.

Hendrick Motorsport driver William Byron will be one of the drivers to look out for on Sunday as the sole multi-race winner in the Next-Gen car will be hoping to make his Talledega outing count by repeating his Atlanta heroics.

Now William Byron has come forth suggesting having a practice session in Talladega is pointless in support of NASCAR scraping the Cup practice sessions in Talladega and some of the similar races contrary to last season.

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Find out what William Byron said about the lack of practice sessions in Talladega

William Byron
William Byron

William Byron suggests that practice sessions in Talladega ids pointless as he has as he believes the sessions have nothing to do with what the drivers will do in the final race. He went on to say he always believed that in Talladega practice won’t get you the feel for what you are going to need in the race.

“I mean it would be pointless to have practice. There’s literally nothing that we do here that would relate in practice. You’re basically just wearing off the underside of the car for a couple of laps. I always thought the practice was really difficult here to get a feel for what you are going to need in the race,” says William Byron.

William Byron was then asked in the press conference post-qualifying if he has any idea on how to control the Talladega tack to which he replied saying he has little understanding of how it going to perform considering his experience from Daytona and suggested that the next-Gen cars are really good for aggressive pushing drives in the track.

“I think the little bit that I did race the DAYTONA 500, I think I was 60 laps in, I felt like the car handled better than the old car. It accepted the pushes better than the old car too. Both things were good for competition because you could just be aggressive with pushes. That was probably the most aggressive 500 that we’ve seen with pushing. I think that had a lot to do with the car,” William Byron said.

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