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Saturday 23 February 2019

VIVA LA

MEXICO!

Denny Hamlin celebrates with
the Championship trophy in
Victory Lane after winning the
NASCAR Daytona 500 auto
race at Daytona International
Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 17,
2019, in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Associated Press
NASCAR’s

new rule

package

shrouded

in unknowns

before debut

By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) —
NASCAR rolled into Atlanta Dustin Johnson seizes
Motor Speedway ready to
begin a new era of rac-
ing that is shrouded in un- the lead at WGC
knowns. Will it be racier?
That’s the point. Will it make
Sunday’s event at Atlanta
exciting? That remains to
be seen. “We don’t have
that answer. I can tell you
that it will be drastically dif-
ferent than what we have
done before,” said Kevin
Harvick, who routed the
field to win last year’s race.
“I would hate to speculate
on what the direction of it
is going to be and what we
are going to do because
we don’t know. That is
good for everyone watch-
ing. We have more ques-
tions with zero answers,
actually.” The competition
package for 2019 was not
used in last week’s season- Dustin Johnson hits the ball on the 3rd hole on the second
opening Daytona 500 and
a version of it will debut day of competition of the WGC-Mexico Championship at the
Sunday on Atlanta’s abra- Chapultepec Golf Club in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019.
sive 1.54-mile quad oval. Associated Press
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