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Why can't NASCAR make the COT look like the NATIONWIDE cars
IMO, if Nascar really wants to fix the looks of the COT make it look like the NW cars......
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Permalink Reply by alan4s on
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Cup cars will be getting a new nose next year, and each manufacturer will have a more distinctive look there. Stewarts 2011 Mobil 1 car, introduced last week, shows the new Chevy nose:
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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on
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Thanks Alan, do you think this might help at the Track as far as attendance
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Not immediately, and not that alone, but it could help some eventually. I think the economy is the biggest factor.
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Permalink Reply by Team Maranello on
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This is still America. NASCAR will get a bail out. It is the election season and the politician dont want their meat eating, beer drinking overweight voter base unhappy.
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Permalink Reply by Turtle7 on
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With the nose change for next year, I wonder how much time RGM can get in the wind tunnel? Without the adjustable splitter, the boys are going to need to look at the whole car's aero handling all over again. Secondly, over the last few years the teams have come up with ways to replace broken splitters after running thru the grass. I wonder it the lower nose section is replaceable?
BTW, NASCAR contends that it is trying to reduce CUP costs but each time they make a change to the car, the teams end up spending a ton of money.
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Permalink Reply by Ms Gibby on
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Wasn't it Richard Childress who said a year or so ago that he wished Nascar would stop trying to save him money? LOL
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Permalink Reply by Bubba Gophast on
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If you have a chance, watch the Aussie version called Super 8s, and you can see why Nascarp went the COT. Its not to save money, Its to look like cars produced world wide today. By the way I have been in 28 countries in the last 2 years and Thailand is the first place that didn't know who Robby was. Bring on Dakar!!!
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Did you see the latest. Starting next year the cars are going to be fuel injected and run E85. Toyota is reported to have not tested there motors yet. NASCAR is really saving the owners money.
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Permalink Reply by Ky. Dogg Pound 7 on
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From Jayski:
"•NASCAR could run 'pony cars' in Sprint Cup: Next year will bring a host of important changes to the Sprint Cup Series, including a significantly revised schedule, new front ends for the race cars, the introduction of Sunoco Green E15 ethanol fuel and, at some point, fuel injection. But what lies further beyond next year is even more intriguing. With the next-generation Sprint Cup cars tentatively scheduled to roll out in 2013, there's a strong chance that Ford will move its Mustang up from the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the possibility that Chevrolet could dump its four-door Impala Sedan for the hot-selling Camaro. And a Mustang-Camaro rivalry could be just the thing to rev up NASCAR fan interest anew. Today, the automakers and NASCAR are working closer than ever in trying to bring the audiences back to the tracks and the television sets. Brand identity, something the automakers felt was largely lost when the current Sprint Cup car was introduced in 2007, is a hot-button issue these days. And it's one reason NASCAR has gone back to traditional blade spoilers on the Cup cars and next year will eliminate ungainly cow-catcher front splitters in favor of a more aesthetically pleasing design. The automakers want even more brand identity, because they are trying to recapture the old "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" marketing focus that was predominant in prior generations. In the NASCAR Nationwide Series, the newly introduced Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger, which were raced four times this season and will be raced full-time next year, already have proven hugely popular.
"The dealers are really excited about the Challenger running in NASCAR because it's something that (Dodge) sells," said NASCAR team owner Roger Penske, who also owns more than 300 automobile dealerships in 19 states. "These are high gross margin vehicles that they love to sell. When you start to look at Camaro and Mustang and Challenger, these are icons in the business."
Jamie Allison, director, Ford North American Motorsports, said point blank that the automaker wants to move the Mustang up to the Sprint Cup level, with one caveat: It has to look more like the production Mustang than the current Nationwide car does. "We like to see our iconic brand in all forms of motorsports," Allison said of the Mustang. " ... Any further consideration of the Mustang would have to be complemented and linked to more brand identity to the car that's raced. It can't just be the current car of tomorrow. It has to be a progression beyond what's in Nationwide."
Chevrolet's racing boss also wants more brand identity. "Chevrolet, in any series that we race in, we're looking for three things," said Jim Campbell, Chevrolet's general manager and the man who oversees the automaker's NASCAR operations. "First, we want to see technologies in the race cars that are applicable to what we do on the production side without driving a tremendous amount of cost. Secondly, we're (wanting) race series to use biofuels, because that's what we need to do going forward. Many of our (production) cars are ethanol-capable. And third, we want to see the cars that we race look like the cars that we sell, as close as we can." Campbell would not specifically comment on whether Chevrolet will return the Camaro to the NASCAR ranks, as Ford has with the Mustang in the Nationwide Series. "That's a ways off," Campbell said. "So any speculation about what's going to happen out there I don't really have a lot to say on that today. ... We'll see what happens." Campbell did make it clear however, that he wanted NASCAR Sprint Cup Chevrolets to look a lot more like production-model Chevrolets.(is part from SPEED)(10-19-2010)"
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