UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 Forecast: High Speeds with High Pressure, Ground Swells and Flurries of Carnage

Kevin Harvick has a premonition about tomorrow's UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400:

"The race will suck. The paving is awful. It's rough. They had some guys that pave parking lots out there doing it. It's pretty awful ... It's too bad they repaved it and screwed it up for the next four or five years. The track is extremely fast. And I am worried about the tires and how they are going to wear on the new surface."

Happy never has been one to hold back.

The change in the track's surface caused Goodyear to come up with harder compound tires and many drivers commented on how hard it was to come to grips with the track as they ended up slip-sliding away.

Tony Stewart's not happy with the tires, which come with a recommended 62 pounds of air pressure, 32 more than last year:

"We're pretty much on the verge of wrecking on every lap. This is the worst, by far, tire I've ever had in my nine years in the Nextel Cup."

According to Mark Martin, the parking lot pave job Harvick mentions doesn't help either:

"It's real bumpy in Turn 1, real bumpy. I don't know that I've ever seen a new paved racetrack be that wavy with the speeds we are running and the setups that we run. It poses a real challenge to us."

Yeah ... sounds like this race might suck. And if today's Busch race is any indication with a record 12 caution flags and a few DNFs, we can expect plenty of Cup carnage.