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Kansas track presents different challenges despite cookie-cutter moniker

By Mark Ashenfelter
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Looking at the tracks that comprise the Chase for the Nextel Cup, Kansas Speedway seems rather innocuous. The 1.5-mile facility is often compared to Chicagoland Speedway -- understandable since both opened in 2001 -- when the discussion turns to "cookie-cutter" tracks. For the most part, those tracks may induce tedious racing much more often than fear and loathing among competitors. And after the twists and turns presented at Dover -- and the great unknown of running the Car of Tomorrow for th ...

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