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Kind of cool in the evening. Charlotte Merch Speedway was paved recently or the last time it was

paved, they used some rubber polymers in the asphalt and so you know rubber tires with rubber polymers,

there's a lot of grip as it is. And when it cools down at night, the bottom groove becomes very

dominant. The top can work a little bit but it's not quite as competitive as you might have during

the afternoon. So I think that to see multiple grooves which I believe present some more opportunities

for passing, given drivers more options to run different lines is going to happen in the middle of the day.

So I was glad to see the race run during the day. I thought Alex and the 88 guys did a great

job all weekend. They obviously qualified very well. I thought they had a pretty good car in

practice but when the race started it was even better than I thought it was. He had some really good

speed. Well they didn't really get to run a ton of laps for him to move around and learn too much

more about the racetrack itself but he ran most of his laps right on the bottom. And he was a little

bit faster than a couple of guys he was around but they were also running the bottom so it was very

difficult for him to make make make passes but I think as the race went on he would have had some

opportunities once he could search around and find different lines to run. Unfortunately he had

left front tire to down. It's hard I looked at the tire and it's hard to tell what exactly happened

and why that happened. To look at it at first glance it appears that you might think that the

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