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Brick by brick: Bill Elliot's team builds a foundation for speed during testing at Indianapolis. (NASCAR).

The Sporting News

| August 05, 2002 | Spencer, Lee | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's 6:45 Monday morning, a little more than 12 hours after the Winston Cup race in Chicago, and Mike Ford and his crew are unloading two of Bill Elliott's Dodges at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Elliott isn't due at the track for three hours, but his support team is hard at work preparing the cars for two days of tests during which it hopes to find something that will help the No. 9 win the Brickyard 400 as it did last Sunday at Pocono, a track very similar to Indy.

This is the second session of testing at Indy, and by the end, 48 cars will have participated. Every team shares a common goal--to make its car go faster--but many have different agendas. Some simply ...

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