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It can take an organization a couple of weeks or more to assemble a car.NASCAR Vice President John Probst said Tuesday that NASCAR still believes every team will have five center chassis and seven front and rear clips by the week of the Daytona 500. Then teams embark for three races on the west coast in Fontana (California), Las Vegas and Phoenix.Penske driver Joey Logano said the car he tested at Daytona will be used for the preseason exhibition Clash as well as the race in Fontana."That’s the position we’re all in," Logano said. "I was like, if we wreck these things, we’re in a bit of trouble."You put a bunch of drivers out there trying to learn something and start racing each other, it ended up being a race."Denny Hamlin's crew chief, Chris Gabehart, said that with a month until Daytona, drivers could afford to mix it up a little in the test — a luxury they won’t have during the Feb. 15-20 race week, which includes practice Tuesday, single-lap qualifying Wednesday, qualifying races Thursday, practice Friday and Saturday, and the Daytona 500 on Sunday."I would venture to say you saw some of the more exciting drafting today than what you will see [in] Speedweeks practice [because] you will have very little time to recover [next month]," Gabehart said."That will be in the back of everybody’s mind, but that is part of the strategy. Those who attended (there were 17 cars) breathed a sigh of relief after they didn’t incur any damage."It’s on my mind because it’s hard to know what is going to happen in the next four weeks," said Trackhouse Racing owner Justin Marks, whose team expanded from one to two cars this year after the purchase of Chip Ganassi Racing."We’re prepared to do the work. But the impact on the organization as a whole at the start of what is a grind of a season could be concerning."Outside of having another COVID lockdown or some significant accidents, I think we’ll have enough cars to race," driver and co-owner Brad Keselowski said. Cup drivers should be talented enough to not crash.If NASCAR doesn’t want tandem racing, it needs to figure out something with the engine cooling system at these tracks so that drivers can’t do it for even half a lap or else the engine would blow.Next Up: Next GenThe next test for the Next Gen car will be Jan. 25-26 in Phoenix.

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