(By Greg Engle CupScene.com Editor,NASCAR Examiner)
Posted: Friday,December 16th, 2011
Clint Bowyer visited Disney World near Orlando Florida for a couple of days this past week. He wasn’t there on vacation however. Bowyer and his new crew chief Brian Pattie spent a few days testing at the Walt Disney World Speedway for Michael Waltrip Racing.
Both Bowyer and Pattie joined the team and will campaign a Toyota in 2012. The trip to the ¾ mile triangle shaped speedway gave the driver and crew chief an opportunity to get a head start on the season.
Bowyer signed with MWR late in 2011 after spending the past few season with Richard Childress Racing. He said the testing was more of a team building exercise and less of a change to learn anything technical.
“Right off the bat, everybody just kind of fell into place,” Bowyer told NASCAR.com. “I’m telling you, you will learn as much sitting down at a table to dinner and talking racing, getting to know each other and bench racing a little bit — building that trust and respect within one another, this early in the game — as you will at the race track, going through the motions and changing shocks and springs. MORE>>>
Clint Bowyer, driver of the #15 5-Hour Energy Toyota during testing at Walt Disney World Speedway on December 14, 2011 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for Michael Waltrip Racing)
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