Switch to Spire Motorsports Ended Michael McDowell's Speed on Superspeedways
2 mins agoWhen Michael McDowell left Front Row Motorsports to go to Spire Motorsports, it pretty much instantly ended his run of dominance in drafting track qualifying as Spire's Chevies are significantly slower than FRM's Fords were last year. In fact, Spire seemed to be arguably the slowest multi-car chartered team in the Daytona 500 as the three Spire drivers ran in the back together for much of the race and they didn't have much speed on these tracks last year either. Because of his 27 laps led in last year's race and his weak 24th place qualifying run, he will be a tempting selection for a lot of DFS players but it seems the only reason he had so much speed on those tracks last year was the Ford dominance. Now that he has signed with an uncompetitive team on these tracks, don't expect him to do much.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference