Yellow Transportation 300 - Rookie Friday Quotes

Prior to the start of Busch Series practice this afternoon, Travis Carter commented on the possibility of body changes to Busch Series cars. Carter is the team manager for the No. 14 Lilly/Walgreens Ford driven by Raybestos Rookie Kyle Krisiloff.

TRAVIS CARTER, No. 14 LILLY/WALGREENS FORD: HOW MUCH IS INVOLVED IN A BODY CHANGE? “It’s my understanding if it follows the template for the Cup Series, it’s all new car construction. It’s a totally new package from the ground up. Suspension components are probably the same. All the car construction is a little different and obviously the body is different. I think it takes the factors of continuous body modification and alterations every week that people typically do, that is probably out of the equation now with that big ol’ knobby looking template thing that they use. I’ve only seen it once. I saw it at a race at Bristol and that’s the only time I’ve seen it.”

IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE A BODY CHANGE ECONOMICAL FOR THE TEAMS? “I don’t know, I don’t think so. It’s just a matter of new car cost and I don’t know the cost of the construction of those chassis. I don’t know if it’s different; it probably is because I understand the tolerances are really, really minimal. Basically, no tolerance. When you construct and weld tubing and all those same things twist and pull so I’m sure they’re people that developed a method to do that without any alterations, at least to maintain the thing within the limits of tolerance and so on and so forth. So that would add some expense. Obviously, it would probably obsolete the exiting cars. There maybe other divisions that would be a way of dispose of those so you don’t lose all the money on them. Don’t know that it would require having as many cars in the stable and that may be one advantage. It appears, and again I don’t understand it fully, but they’ve tried to eliminate all these body alterations that go on which become very, very expensive and time consuming.”