SATIRE—How fast is too fast? NASCAR officials believe the 206-mile-per-hour-plus speeds achieved Saturday in the Budweiser Shootout were over the top, so they’ve mandated cooling system restrictions to the cars, designed to decrease the amount of time competitors could pair up for speed-increasing drafting. As a result, competing crews had just two days to apply all their high-tech tools and test gear to make their cars go slower. The move prompted many observers to point out that it wasn’t too long ago that the idea behind racing was to use advanced technology to make the cars go faster. “That’s old-school thinking,” said Jake Hillebrand, NASCAR’s Director of Deceleration. “We need to slow th...

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SATIRE—How fast is too fast? NASCAR officials believe the 206-mile-per-hour-plus speeds achieved Saturday in the Budweiser Shootout were over the top, so they’ve mandated cooling system restrictions to the cars, designed to decrease the amount of time competitors could pair up for speed-increasing drafting. As a result, competing crews had just two days to apply all their high-tech tools and test gear to make their cars go slower. The move prompted many observers to point out that it wasn’t too long ago that the idea behind racing was to use advanced technology to make the cars go faster. “That’s old-school thinking,” said Jake Hillebrand, NASCAR’s Director of Deceleration. “We need to slow th...

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