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Old School; NASCAR has a program to keep traction control out of Cup cars.
Bernie Ecclestone and his Formula One minions finally unplugged their computers and surrendered. Likewise, Chris Pook and his CART techno-wizards. So what makes Bill France and Mike Helton think they're smart enough to keep traction control out of NASCAR?
The basic simplicity of their rolling billboards comes to mind. We're not talking space shuttle technology here. Winston Cup cars, for example, lack sophisticated data acquisition chips and telemetry processors like in F1 and CART. A stock car's ignition system is fairly easy to police and a new ``official'' dashboard will help even more.
But the biggest reason is commitment. Even with so much else on ...
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