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The One Design Change That Made NASCAR Races Faster

NASCAR is ridiculous. At the Daytona 500 in Florida this weekend, souped-up cars will chase each other around a 2.5-mile track at speeds approaching 200 mph. They’ll do this for 200 laps, for a total distance of 500 miles.

Could you survive driving at 150 mph? We hit top speed in a real NASCAR race car