The boys with dirt track background might just get an advantage with the new trim. It might just be my eye, but it seems like the tail panel is more squareish/flat than last year. Wonder if that helps or hurts with the shorter spoiler? Seemed like they stayed in a pretty tight pack most of the time. Is that quality of drivers, shortness of the race, the lower hp this year? Probably a combination of those and other factors.

Next week we'll have almost twice as many cars and almost three times as many laps with some lower quality teams so there should be plenty of variables to mix it up, but odds are the winner will be one of those guys from last night.