IRL won’t be back at Daytona
The Speedway made the announcement Thursday after the IRL decided to concentrate its '08 winter testing at Homestead-Miami Speedway, a sister track to Daytona.
"They decided instead of testing here a couple of days, then packing up and going to Homestead, they could get all the data they needed at Homestead — one day on the oval, one day on the road course down there," Daytona spokesman David Talley said. "It looks like a cost saving measure."
The IRL staged a compatibility test at DIS in the fall of 2006 then all the IndyCar Series teams returned in the days following the 2007 Rolex 24 for a two-day test session.
"I think the word 'disappointment' is too strong of a word," Speedway president Robin Braig said. "We knew going into it last year they were trying to find a location to do some winter road-course testing." CupScene.com