Inside the Garage with 29's Berrier (cont'd)

We're getting paid to do a job or getting paid to do what we do, and at the time we do things that we think are right. Maybe they turn out to be a little different, but you know what? That's part of it and we're fortunate enough that we can make decisions and turn around and come back on 'em so I don't think it's no big deal.

Q: How's the Car of Tomorrow going to play at Darlington this weekend?

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Berrier: How's the COT going to play at Darlington? I really think, at the end of a fuel run, you'll be able to go out there and run faster in a rental car. I'm being perfectly honest with you.

I think it's going to be miserably slow. But, I don't honestly know. I think the race at Phoenix, where we were at another mile place; I think it was rather boring from my perspective.

Then I watched the Busch race at Richmond [last] Friday night and I thought it was rather good. I'm hoping the same thing plays out for [the Car of Tomorrow] -- the thing is just so top-heavy and the center of gravity is so high.

There's nothing about it that you would build, intentionally that way to go to Darlington and run fast -- or anyplace else, for that matter. Darlington is just going to be way worse because the tires fall off so much.

I feel like it's going to be miserable -- miserably ugly. But I might be 100 percent wrong.

Q: So the issue of the car turning in the center of the corner isn't better?

Berrier: Absolutely not. We haven't made major changes to the car, and we need to. I think everybody in this garage needs to. The only thing we can do is go to a Milwaukee or a Lakeland or somewhere, and test on Hoosier tires, which are entirely different.

Nothing applies to what we're doing, so we're all in a pretty tight box because of the tire situation. I think NASCAR would have better races with the Car of Tomorrow if we had tires, where we could test, which represented and were replications of what we race.

I think we could make a better show at a Darlington, even -- or wherever, if we could test. We wouldn't even have to go to Darlington and test. We could go to Rockingham, but on a Hoosier tire it doesn't really do you justice like it would on a tire like we were gonna race at Darlington.

It's just like going to Iowa to test for Richmond. You need something, tire-wise, because the tire is the only thing touching the ground and it's the only thing that matters.

It's the biggest thing to these cars and we don't have [test tires] to make [the COT] better.

Q: Would there be any benefit, for the Car of Tomorrow races, to come a day early and have an open test day, if your team wanted to take advantage of it?

Berrier: Yeah, I think there would be a benefit to that. I think there are a lot of people in this garage that are probably worried about Darlington, because we have not been anywhere like that.

We know the characteristics of the car, we know the characteristics of Darlington and I'm thinking if we had all day on Thursday and as many tires as we needed [we'd be better off].

Like, we're going to go there on Friday and get four sets of tires. In five laps, each set's going to be done. If you're not spot-on when you get there, we're going to be in trouble. (Continued)