S. Wimmer on racing at Pocono Raceway:
“The CAT Racing team had one of its better runs at Pocono last year. We overcame a lot of problems over the race weekend and still pulled off a pretty good finish. It is, however, going to be quite a bit different racing at Pocono this year, with the new gear rule that doesn’t let us shift. The brakes are going to be a little more important getting down into turn one. I know the motor department here at Bill Davis Racing has been working really hard to get together a power band so we can get off of turn three, too. When you think about it, the new gear rule is going to take a lot of work away from us this weekend. Before, we’ve had to shift two or three times on that race track. Sometimes when I would get in traffic I would depend on gear power to regain momentum, and really utilized the shifting to get off of turn one and three so it’s going to be different. When it comes time to pass, it’s going to be tough.

“On the other hand, I think we’ll see a lot less people falling out of the race, too. In the past, there have been a lot of gearbox problems where drivers were tearing up their transmissions and falling out early, so it will be beneficial in getting more cars to the finish line.