CONCORD, N.C. -- Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition for NASCAR, confirmed for certain Wednesday what many already had assumed.
Regardless of what transpires during a two-day test at Charlotte Motor Speedway next week, the Sprint Cup Series will debut cars with the new spoiler in place at Martinsville Speedway on March 28. That means this Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway will mark an abrupt end to the wings that have adorned cars on a part-time basis since 2007 and on a full-time basis since 2008.
Pemberton admitted the change was made in large part simply because many folks did not like the look of the wing, but also because the spoiler hopefully will make what he called "good racing" even better.
"I think the racing is pretty good," Pemberton said. "I think it's an opportunity to change things up a little bit and quite frankly, the wing wasn't accepted as universally as we had hoped it would be by competitors and the fans alike. So after much effort, we started looking and decided to go back to the spoiler."
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