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Elliott Sadler said last week that the bumpers on these new NASCAR stock cars match up so well that bump-drafting may be even more of an issue here than in the past. "I think he's probably right," Burton said. "The great question, honestly, is how the car is going to handle. "My inclination is that they're going to handle bad enough where I don't think bump-drafting is going to be a factor. I think the factor is going to be who can put the car where they want to put them. "Bump-drafting really becomes a problem when you have the 43‑car packs, with no other option to pass. "I think this is going to be a different kind of race. "The other thing about the bump-draft - when the bumpers do line up, it doesn't cause the problem that we saw with the other cars. "We had a lot of wrecks in the other cars that people said were bump-drafting when it was just wrecking. "There's a difference. Running into the back of somebody isn't bump-drafting. "Those mistakes won't show up as much in this car because the bumpers do line up. -- Winston-Salem Journal


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