FYI WIRZ: NASCAR Drivers Look Beyond Luck to Win at Las Vegas

NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers aren't talking luck when they go to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, even though they know every race at every track has a bit of bad or good luck in store. That's racing. Some luck will apply on the 1.5 mile tri-oval track for the Kobalt 400 on March 8, but horsepower and skill are far more important. The Las Vegas race is early on the long NASCAR schedule, and the weather should be about perfect, according to Weather.com: sunny in the low 70s with zero rain. Teams don’t have to worry about weather in Vegas. They can focus on performance. In an intense sport, teams seem to look deeper these days. The new emphasis on wins caused by the revised Chase for the Sprint Cup format has no doubt changed the philosophy of ea...

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