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    Let’s go to work

    Jul 03, 2020 4 minutes
    By LAWRENCE BUTCHER

    ‘I’m looking at a video of racecar I’m not allowed to touch until I get to the track’ says Cliff Daniels of Hendrick Motorsports, crew chief to Jimmie Johnson who drives the no.48 Chevy.

    So it was that NASCAR led the motorsport world back to racing after the Covid-19 lockdown. But the way teams must operate in the current environment is very different to how it was when they downed tools in March.

    Fortunately, racing is the sort of industry that attracts flexible individuals, and this adaptability has placed NASCAR teams in good stead during the current situation. They have had to handle both social distancing protocols in their race shops and at the track, which has necessarily changed the dynamic between various

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