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The Inside Line: Gen-6 gets better marks at Las Vegas

While NASCAR's new race car, the Gen-6, continues to be a work in progress, it is showing signs of improvements based on its performance in Sunday's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.The car didn't get rave reviews from all after the Daytona 500 on Feb. 24 and then one week later at Phoenix International Raceway. Some drivers complained it was too hard to pass, and there had been a lack of side-by-side racing.Denny Hamlin was the most outspoken, and his comments about the car landed him into trouble with NASCAR. Hamlin compared the Gen-6 with the previous race car, the fifth generation vehicle, which was commonly referred to as the Car of Tomorrow (COT) when it made its debut in 2007.When Hamlin was asked about his opinion of the car after he finished third at Phoenix, he replied, "I don't want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our generation five cars. This is more like what the generation five was at the beginning. The teams hadn't figured out how to get the aero bal...

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