In the drivers meeting they laid out the rules for 2016 and gave each driver a sheet with the synopsis. I am sure we will hear more as it goes on, but this is what I heard and read over driver Jim Lingar's shoulder:

No engine rules. No weight rules.

They will have spec LR and RR tires. Wing package is the same and the cars must look/resemble sprint cars.

Now, what I took from the no engine rules was unlimited displacement. Steel or aluminum was all allowed. No minimum weight speaks for itself.

They rolled out two mounted tires and showed the diameters between them. The compound was not the compound they were referring to, just the size. And they were Hoosiers.

So, that pretty much said it all. Then the announcer told the crowd of the changes and confused me. He said that in 2016 SOD will allow both 360 and 410 engines. Well.... yes..... that's true, but like I said, I took it as unlimited displacement, any types of blocks or heads.

I am sure we will hear more.

On a sidebar, Jim Lingar had a huge shunt last night. He was going through Turns 3 and 4 in the Feature and the car went right at the apex of Turn 4 and subsequently went nose first into the outside wall coming onto the front stretch. Hartford has water barrels there so that cushioned the blow but when he hit it looked real bad.

Jim got out of the car, though. We all breathed a sigh of relief. A few years ago I remember he went over the Turn 2 wall and out of the track, landing on all four wheels and never flipping.

Also, once again as always this year at Hartford when they are running sprints, the joint was absolutely packed.