What potential safety innovation is Texas Motor Speedway unveiling this weekend?
The speedway has embedded landing-strip-like caution lights in the asphalt at the base of the retaining walls inside the speedway’s four turns. Eddie Gossage, the track’s general manager, says the lights will be easier to see for drivers, even in the sun. “Our tests indicate the drivers will see them easier,” Gossage says. “We believe it will give the drivers quicker notification of a problem somewhere on the racetrack, and that makes the racing safer.” Q: How’s Matt Kenseth looking? A: Almost uncatchable. Kenseth has led in points for three consecutive weeks, won at Las Vegas and has finished in the top 10 in five of the six races. He’s the defending winner at Texas, another intermediate-length track where Roush Racing excels. Q: How about Mark Martin? A: So far, not so good. Martin enters Texas 23rd in points. But Texas is his kind of track. He won there in 1998 and has never qualified outside the top 10. “Everybody knows that I enjoy the 1.5-mile tracks like Texas, Atlanta and Charl
