Thus, the potential for danger becomes that much greater. The key is to accept the danger, even embrace it. The plate, which fits over the carburetor, contains seven-eighths of an inch holes that limit the amount of air and fuel allowed into the engine. Count me among the disgruntled. Restrictor plate racing is not racing.
Cars merely exist on the track together.
A driver races with eye, hand, foot and a brass set of ball bearings. Plate racing takes eye, hand and foot out of the equation. Driver and mechanic skill is removed. All they can do is flat-foot it and pray for Monday. Earnhardt, however, said earlier this year at Daytona that many of his colleagues had lost their ball bearings.