First day of testing a "waste of time" and "idiotic" according to Mark Martin

If you ask Mark Martin, he thinks the first day of testing at Daytona was a "waste of time".  Why?  They only let them do single car runs, no drafting, so while the first day of testing showed how fast a single car can run, it didn't tell the drivers or the teams how well they can perform under race conditions.  The drivers won't know until they start drafting how their cars will perform, so realistically, what Mark Martin said was right, it was a waste of time.

This is what Mark had to say....

"I feel that we're wasting our time with single-car runs," Martin said during the lunch break on Monday. "We should be drafting already, but it is what it is. We do get to start drafting tomorrow afternoon, so that's half a day sooner than we might have.

"Once we start drafting, we're really working on racing. The rest of this stuff is idiotic, with the [questions between driver and team]: 'Does this help? Not help? Is that faster? Is it not faster? Can you tell anything?' That's what we're doing right now.

"I guess we would do it for 15 days straight if they'd let us, but I don't believe you learn very much doing that. You learn a lot when you start drafting in 20-car packs. You can tell the changes that you make, you can have feedback, you can have input, you can make changes on the car that really make a difference in the way it handles." (Scene Daily)

He's right though, they can't really learn anything about how the car will handle in the race by running them the way they did yesterday.  He was obviously frustrated, calling NASCAR idiotic, since that's not usually the way Martin is, but he said something a lot of fans have been thinking for a while, at least the idiotic part. 

By the sounds of it, the real testing with the draft will happen this afternoon and then we'll see who rises to the top, it may be the same drivers that were on top of the charts yesterday and maybe not, but then the drivers and crews can get down to business and work on the cars to get them to handle right.

Your thoughts?