Jesse Love's No. 2 rear suspension from Rockingham displayed at Talladega

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NASCAR‘s show-and-tell returned on Friday at Talladega Superspeedway, with Jesse Love‘s No. 2 Chevrolet rear suspension from Rockingham Speedway last weekend on display.

Eric Peterson, managing director of the Xfinity Series, stood the No. 2 car‘s left-side truck arm, the rear-end housing, the U-Bolt saddle and the lowering block. The rule violated at Rockingham was that all the mating surfaces between the U-Bolt saddle and the truck trailing arm were not in complete contact with each other. A significant gap was visible.

With the entire assembly not being tightened, Love had an aerodynamic advantage that eventual Rockingham winner Sammy Smith pointed out from the No. 8 team‘s radio toward the end of the event.

"What happens when you go into the corner and all this stuff is not tight is the load on the suspension moves left," Peterson said, "and the cornering load moves right with the body and will move the right rear of the body towards the wall and adds side force to the car which is where the performance advantage comes from. It skews it out."

— NASCAR.com —